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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Animalculist, get " Ponds and Ditches," by Dr. Cooke, 

 price 2i. 6(/., published by S. P. C. K. Society. Also " A 

 Thousand Objects for the Microscope," by the same author, 

 pubhshed by Warne, price u. 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, Hooker's " Student's Flora of the British Isles," 

 for exchange. — W. Simpson, ii Scholes Street, Cheetham, 

 Manchester. 



Wanted, second-hand monocular microscope with one-inch, 

 or half-inch, and quarter-inch objectives, value about £-i. 

 Offers. — H. Evans, 103 West Street, Grimsbury, Banbury. 



Wanted, to exchange a revolving double-nose piece for tivo 

 objectives, new, for pine object cabinet, the specimens to lay 

 flat in trays with divisions. — Rex, loS Broomgrove Road, 

 Sheffield. 



For Prichard's "Natural History of Man," 2 vols., 62 

 coloured plates, and 100 wood. engravings, Bailliere, 1855, what 

 offers? Set of Science-Gossip, " Intellectual Observer," and 

 Gosse's books wanted. — B., 9 Royal Terrace West, Kingstown, 

 Ireland. 



" Annual Reports and Proceedings of the Liverpool Geo- 

 logical A.ssociation " exchanged for those of other societies. — 

 O. W. J., 8 Queen's Road, Rock Ferry, Cheshire. 



Wanted, to exchange a number of articles, viz.: — Butter- 

 flies in box, seventy-five characteristic rocks and fossils, books, 

 &c. List on application to F. S. Atkinson, Thornbury House, 

 White Cross Road, Hereford. 



Will give British marine or land shells in exchange for 

 British butterflies, or other shells. — S. C. Cockerell, 11 Ethelbert 

 Road, Margate, Kent. 



Offered, British land and freshwater shells and some fossils 

 in exchange for foreign postage stamps (rare sorts from Persia 

 and Mauritius, &c., required). — F. M. Hele, Fairlight, Elm- 

 grove Road, Gotham, Bristol. 



A collection of foreign shells, all named and neatly 

 mounted on cardboard, 140 specimens, comprising about 90 

 species, exchange micro slides or material. — D., The Beeches, 

 Circus Road, N.W. 



Slides of lead formate, ammonium chlorate, and nitrosali- 

 cylic acid, neatly mounted in Canada balsam. What offers in 

 slides ? Vegetable tissues preferred. — B. Piffard, Hill House, 

 Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 



Wanted, good specimens of Poiniiiogeion nitetts, P. fili- 

 gonius, and long-leaved forms of P. pusillus from Scotland. 

 Other Potamogetons, rare British plants, or Characeae in 

 exchange. — A. Bennett, 107 High Street, Croydon, Surrey. 



Science-Gosssip, unbound, 1878, 1879, 1880, iSSi. What 

 offers? — John Kitchin, Grosvenor Place, Parliament Street, 

 Nottingham. 



A VARIETY of microscopical photographic slides to exchange 

 for others — botanical, entomological, &c. They must be good 

 preparations. — J. P. Hiller, 38 Hornsey Street, Holloway. 



Wanted, a copy of Gray's " Birds of the West of Scotland." 

 — Rev. J. A. Ewing, Westmill Rectory, Buntingford. 



Wanted, nests of goldfinch and gold-crested wren. — Alex. 

 Foster, Rodger Street, Anstruther, N.B. 



Offered, Walter White's " Holidays in Tyrol," Duke of 

 Argyll's "lona," Weld's "Two Months in the Highlands, 

 Orcades and Skye," Jenkinson's "Guide to North Wales.", 

 Wanted, good books on microscopy. — T. H. Buffham, Con- 

 naught Road, Waltharastow. 



Wanted, impressions from seals, &c. ; also specimens of 

 curious natural substances used in the arts, sciences, &c. Can 

 offer impressions from seals of historical interest, &c. — W. H. 

 Tunley, Albert Road, Southsea. 



For palate of limpet or skin of starfish send stamped envelope 



and some other interesting object. — M., 38 Park Road, Clapham. 



Wanted, English silver and copper coins, medals, war 



medals or tokens ; exchange, fossils or natural curiosities. — 



F. Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, living specimens of Helix pomatia and other 

 southern Helices, also L. stcignalis and P. comeiis. Exchange 

 slides or shells. — J. T. Lightwood, Lytham. 



Fossils from Thanet sand, London clay, &c., in exchange 

 for old china figures or dishes. — Arthur Leonard, 6 Clifton 

 Gardens, Margate. 



Wanted, Dolgelly and Isle of Fiir deposits, also guanos rich 

 in diatoms. Will give in exchange other deposits, or first-class 

 micro material or well-mounted slides. — G. Tempere, Storring- 

 ton, Su^ex. 



Foreign fossils (Jurassic, eocene, miocene) in exchange for 

 British fossils or microscopic objects. List of 200 species. — 

 Dr. Rudolf Haeusler, F.G.S., &c., Dedham, Essex. 



Foraminifera, from miocene and eocene of Austria, Italy, 

 France ; large specimens of Spongillajiuviatilis, &c., offered 

 in exchange for microscopic objects [(foraminifera and diatoms 

 preferred) or British fossils. — Dr. Rudolf Haeusler, F.G.S., &c., 

 Dedham, Essex. 



Wanted, British marine shells, particularly northern forms. 

 Specimens of several orders of marine zoology, also preparations 

 for the microscope, offered in exchange. — Lists to E. Lovett, 

 Holly Mount, Croydon. 



"Nature" for i88r, complete, in twelve monthly parts. 

 Wanted, micro slides or offers. — R. W. P., 168 Clanghton Road, 

 Birkenhead. 



Wanted, a good microscope ; will give a five-guinea one and 

 five vols, of " Illustrated Travels," cost 90J., for a better one. — 

 A. Draper, 275 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield. 



Wanted, shells from the Cape, Ceylon, and Fiji islands, alsa 

 a few specimens of double reflecting spar crystals and labra- 

 dorite (in the rough or polished), agates and other polish speci- 

 mens, or quartz crystals, for British marine and freshwater 

 shells, polish specimens of Devon corals, spars, &c., Haldort 

 greensand, gault, lias, red crag, mountain limestone, Silurian, 

 and other fossils ; also thin sections of Devon corals, beautifully 

 finished for the microscope, worth from 3J. to 24^. per dozen. — 

 A. J. R. Sclater, 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Science-Gossip for 1866, 67, 68, 72, 81, for offers; also first- 

 class air-pump by Griffin. W'hat offers in micro apparatus. — 

 A. Alletsee, 11 Foley Street, Langham Place, W. 



Fine Secondary and Tertiary fossils to exchange for works on 

 astronomy or micro-photos. — "Science," 165 White Ladies 

 Road, Bristol. 



For exchange for a good geological cabinet or standard 

 books, S. V. Wood's " Crag Mollusca," complete in one vol. — 

 W. Rose, Abergavenny. 



Wanted, for exchange, living zoophytes. Communicate first 

 with C. H. Schill, Fairoak, Didsbury, near Manchester. 



Will give in exchange for unstained well-mounted slide of 

 Trichina spiralis a receipt for ink for etching or writing upon 

 glass. — A. Smith, Laboratory, Essex Road, London. 



Wanted, correctly-named British and foreign recent shells 

 in exchange for 350 species of dried ferns, including 30 genera, 

 correctly named - also 20 species of eocene shells, from Paris 

 basin, named. — S. E. Richie, 2 Longley Road, Tooting, London. 



Wanted, deposits containing diatomaceae, polycystina, or 

 foraminifera, in exchange for well-mounted slides of podura, 

 diatomaceae, polyxenes, &c. List sent. — C. S. Bouttell, 3 Chest- 

 nut Villas, Woodford Road, Forest Gate, Essex. 



I HAVE still some slides and material oi S olanum auriailatmn , 

 with stellate hairs, from Mauritius, for exchange. Send lists 

 to Rev. A. C. Smith, St. John's Vicarage, Crowboro', near 

 Tunbridge Wells. 



Miss Mevrick will be obliged if a gentleman who offered to 

 send her water-plants last year from Cork will send her his 

 address. She will give rooted rhizome of Killarney, fein, or 

 other exchange to any one for water-plants. — Laurel Ville, 

 Ballybrack, Co. Dublin. 



Well-dried specimens wanted of many of the less common 

 British plants ; offered, 3 b, 41, 130 b, 317, 325, 56t, 723, 841 b,, 

 901, 1335, 1519, and others' (L. C, 7th ed.). — E. F.Linton,. 

 Sprowston Vicarage, Norwich. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" The Honey Ants and the Occident Ants." By Henry C. 

 McCook, D.D. Philadelphia: J. E. Lippincott & Co. 



"Trance and Muscle Reading." By G. M. Beard, M.D. 

 New York. 



" Land and Water." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Northern Microscopist." 



" Aunt Judy's Magazine." 



"Journal of Applied Science." 



" The Natural History Journal." 



" Natural History Notes." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Canadian Entomologist." 



" Botanical Gazette." 



" Good Health." 



" Annual Report of Entomological Society of Ontario. 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" La Science pour Tous." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from: — 

 C. F. W. T. W.-E. H. S.— C. H. B.— W. S.— F. C— J. A. T, 

 — E. L.-R. A.— J. L.-G. D. B — E. A. G. D.— R. H. N. B.- 

 E. W.— B. P.-C. N. R.-J. S.-E. P. D.-J. S.-A. N.-C. G. 

 — F. C— A. B.— E.T. M.— J. A. O.-G. H. B.— W. K.-F. B. 

 -M. A. H.— F. P. D.-A. H. C— R. J. W.-H. B.— F. H. P. 

 — H. H. C— M. E.— A. M. P.-W. T. G.-E. D.-E. T. D.— 

 T. D. K.— S. C. C.-E. J. T.— O. W. T.-H. H. D.-S. A. B. 

 — M. E. W.— T. I. N.— F. A. G. S— G. R. R.— F. B.— C. S. G. 

 — F. H. A.— T. M. R.— T. R. J.-F. S. A.-I. H. W.— F. M. H. 

 —Dr. R. H.— E. W. W.— W. H. B.— R. W. P.— E. H.— A. B. 

 —A. F.-T.W. C.-H. P.M.— T. H. B.-A. J. R. S.-H.W.K. 

 _W S.— W H. T.-R. E. G.— F. S.-J. L.— R. L.-C. E. R. 

 — f T.-G. A. Y.-H. R. A. -J. A. W.— P. Q. K.-M. C. W. 

 — C D — W H —J. P. H.— A. D. M.— W. J. W. S.— A. W.— 

 \V B — E F L.— A. E. B.— F. H. S.— M.— D. R.— S. E. R. 

 —A C S.— N. L. B.— A. A.— G. D.— H. L.— W. R.— A. D.— 

 E L — C H. S.— J. S.— C. S. B.— A. S.— W. G.— R.— &c. 



