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EARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



For exchange, about twelve dozen micro slides. Wanted, 

 works on science or natural history, &c., or shells. State pub- 

 lished price of books.— John Alexander Ollard, F.R.M.S., Ye 

 Hermitage, Forty Hill, Enfield. 



Asaruin Euro/'irum, living plants now in flower offered in 

 exchange for Primula scotka, Polypodium alpestre, CystoJ>teris 

 regiit, As/>. gerinanicutn, or Woodsia Ilvemis. — James W. 

 Lloyd, Kington, Herefordshire. 



Wanted, Echinus spines, British and foreign (not fossil). 

 Will give in exchange well-mounted Echinus spine sections or 

 other superior preparations. — H. Hensoldt, 7 Machell Road, 

 Nunhead, London, S.E. 



Wanted, correspondents in all parts of the world to exchange 

 microscopic slides or material. All communications answered. 

 — F. L. Carter, 20 Trafalgar Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Anatomical, pathological, and other slides in exchange for 

 parasites, mounted or unmounted. Send list first. — F. L. 

 Carter, ao Trafalgar Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, " Reeve's British Land and Freshwater Shells," 

 or any similar work ; also rare British shells. A liberal exchange 

 ;given in dried British mosses or flowering plants, or microscopic 

 slides.— O., 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



WiLi- exchange " Ibis" of January and April 1881, with ten 

 coloured plates, for "Zoologist,'' from January to June inclusive. 

 — H. F. Allison, Saltaire, Shipley, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, first-class botanical and geological slides, rock and 

 bone sections, also double-stained vegetable tissues and other 

 $ood objects. Offered in exchange, anatomical and pathological 

 preparations, and a variety of well-mounted interesting speci- 

 mens. — F. R. Martin, Malvern House, Clevedon. 



Six dozen micro shdes for exchange. — Send list to John 

 Alex. Ollard, F.R.RLS., Ye Hermitage, Forty Hill, Enfield. 



Wanted, microscopic material for mounting lichens, fungi, 

 fern fructifications, or miscellaneous. Will give in exchange 

 well-mounted slides of crystals for polariscope, parts of insects, 

 or other material.— George J. Wightman, 33 Tresco Road, 

 Nunhead. 



Duplicates, parthenias, corydon, euphrosyne, maculata, &c. 

 Wanted, athalia, cassiope, davus, rubi, W. album, pruni, betute, 

 action, paniscus, sinapis, clearwings, in any stage.— Fred. W. 

 Froha.vk, " Haddon," Upper Norwood, S.E. 



Slides of fungus {Tinea decalvens) in human hair for other 

 well-mounted slides. — Send lists to W. Hamilton Reid, Yarm- 

 on-Tees. 



Wanted, unmounted specimens q{ Xeiiodochus carbonariiis, 

 Podisovia juniperi, 'fricliobasis oblongata, also Loliinn ieinii- 

 icniuin. Will give mounted slide crystals, milk, sugar, very 

 beautiful, with polarised light. — A. Smith, The Laboratory, 

 Essex Road, Islington, London. 



Wanted, unmounted various diseases of wheat to exchange. 

 —A. Smith, The Laboratory, Essex Road, Islington, London. 



Bryutn ticoadamense, Hypnutn sendtturi, var. Wilson, &c., 

 for other mosses, British or foreign. — J. Harbord Lewis, 

 145 Windsor Street, Liverpool. 



Wanted, diatomaceous deposits and dredgings from all parts 

 of the world ; Bermuda tripoli, Barbadoes earth, and Monterey 

 deposits specially wanted. Will be glad to hear from corre- 

 spondents abroad. — T. E. Doee, Evesham. 



Wanted, living (preferred) or well-set specimens of the 

 following: — Melolontha pdlo, Melolontlui ainntus, Lucanus 

 cer-jus (rf and 9), Lampyris noctiluca (cT and 9), and Chry- 

 somela cerealis in exchange for Lepidoptera, birds' eggs, or 

 other Coleoptera, — H. H. CoUinge, Mount Preston, Leeds. 



Side-blown eggs of black kite, rough-legged buzzard, 

 curlew, and Buffon's equa offered for those of hobby, merlin, or 

 storm petrel, or for good southern Coleoptera. — H. H. Collinge, 

 Mount Preston, Leeds. 



Wanted, to exchange for other species : — Vertigo edentula, 

 Planorbis naictileus, Limtuca glabra, Helix riipestris, and 

 Litnncea peregra, var. Burnetii: these last are dead shells from 

 Loch Skene, but very fair specimens of so rare a variety. — S. 

 Donald, Sedbergh, R.S.O., Yorkshire. 



Rake sections for the microscope of Devonian corals, and a 

 great many others from other counties ; also polish slabs of the 

 same corals, British and freshwater and land shells, fossils, 

 minerals, &c., in exchange for North Lancashire corals, espe- 

 cially Cyathophylloid, which show an interrupted radial arrange- 

 ment, and more especially of the genus Zaphrentis. — A. J. R. 

 Sclater, Mineralogist, 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Black Podmar will be sent to any reader of Science-Gossip 

 who forwards small tube and postage, and also straw bristle 

 mould on receipt of stamped addressed envelope. — E. Holmes, 

 J49 Essex Road. 



Wanted, turntable in exchange for prepared micro material, 

 such as marine algse ready for balsam, zoophytes, sertularians, 

 moUuscan palates, minute crustaceans, and larva, and various 

 other marine objects of interest. — T. McGann, Burren, Co. Clare. 

 Forty kinds of fish scales, forty kinds of seeds, eighteen kinds 

 of zoophytes, unmounted, for exchange for well-mounted slides. 

 Will give sufficient to make two or three slides for each slide 

 offered.— Lists to B., 36 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow. 



Miocene fossils, including thirty species of foraminifera from 

 the Vienna basin, large spec, of spongilla, offered in exchange 

 for British fossils, recent shells, or foraminifera. — Dr. Rudolf 

 Haeusler, F.G.S., S:c., Dedham, Essex. 



Wanted, Bates' "Amazon," in one or two volumes. Oft'er, 

 M.idagasear and Brazib'an butterflies, beetles, or spiders. — 

 Thomas Workman, Bedford Street, Belfast. 



Myosuris tuinintus in exchange for other botanical specimens, 

 mosses preferred; what offisrs? — A. E. Gibbs, The Hollies, 

 St. Albans. 



Over 600 different genuine postage-stamps to be sold or 

 exchanged. — Wanted, all kinds of natural history specimens, 

 Wilson's •' Bryol. Brit.," and other books. Will send list.— 

 W. G. Woollcombe, The College, Brighton. 



Lecidea canescens, in fruit, offered in exchange for other rare 

 lichens.— J. H. Bloom, Westbury House, Worthing. 



Vols. I, 2, 3, "Magazine of Art," 40 Parts of "Garden 

 Flowers," and 4 vols, of " The .Sea " (Cassell), imbound, in ex- 

 ch.mge for mahogany microscopic object cabinet. — J. W., 

 2 Oval Road, N.W. 



Will exchange well-mounted carmine injections of lung, 

 liver, kidney, spleen, pad of foot, meibomian glands of eye, pia 

 mater, cerebrum of cat, also vermilion injections of lung and 

 intestines of domestic fowl, ciliary processes and choroid vessels 

 of eye of ox, for equally well-mounted slides from animal, vege- 

 table, and mineral kingdoms. — C. A. Lowe, Old Park Road, 

 King's Hill, Wednesbury. 



Wanted, animal parasites, acari, ixodes, &c. — W. A. Hyslop, 

 22 Palinerston Place, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, in fruit, Archidiutn pliascoides, Pleuridium niii- 

 dum, Buxbauntia aphylla, and B. indusiata ; also Habroden 

 Notarisii. Exchange in greenhouse ferns. — Miss Ridley, 

 Hollington, Newbury. 



A collection of named fossils from almost all strata, some 

 polished pebbles and minerals in exchange for coins, tokens, 

 military or naval war medals, &c. — Leonard Stanley, 6 Clifton 

 Gardens, Margate. 



Wanted, nine volumes of Science-Gossip in exchange for 

 nine volumes of " Design and Work," four of which are partly 

 bound and the rest bound. — Lester Francis, 20 Frogmore Street, 

 Abergavenny. 



Will exchange a Henley's telegraph galvanometer, in perfect 

 order, for a double nosepiece in good condition. — A. Hickin, 

 1 Tamworth Villas, Hornsey Road. 



Wa.nted, curious animal hairs, horn of rhinoceros (small 

 piece for section), claws, &c., anything good. Exchange wood 

 sections, well cut and correctly named. — A. Hickin, i Tamworth 

 Villas, Hornsey Road. 



Some birds' eggs instruments in exchange for birds' eggs. — 

 J. S. Whittaker, Vicarage, Bredbury, near Stockport, Cheshire. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Geological Essays at Home and Abroad." By Professor 

 A. Geikie, F.R.S. London: Macmillan. 



" Studies in the Theory of Descent." By Dr. A. Weismann. 

 Part III. London: Sampson Low. 



" Half-Holiday Handbooks." Neighbourhoods of Croydon, 

 Richmond, Dorking, Kingston, Reigate, Tunbridge Wells, 

 Greenwich and Blackheath, Geological Rambles round London. 

 8 vols. 9^/. each. London : ^larshall Japp & Co. 



" Northern Microscopist." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Scottish Naturalist." 



" Land and Water." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" The Analyst." 



"Annual Report, Hackney Microscopical, &c., Society. 



"Twenty-fourth Report, East Kent Natural History Society." 



"Studies in Microscopical Science," Nos. i and 2. 



"'Annual Report, School of Mines, Ballarat." 



" The Southern Science Record." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." 



" Bulletin, Torrey Botanical Club." 



" Procts-Verbal, Societe Beige de Microscopie.'' 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" La Science pour Tous." 



"Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from : — 

 E. G. H.— F. H. S.-B. P.— H. J. R.-C. L. L.-E. J. G.— 

 J. A. ro.— J. W.— G. P.— T. C. R.— W. B.— J. B.— G. D.— 

 W. J. D. v.— F. T. M.— W. U- W.— J. R.— E. E. E.— J. T. L. 

 —J. G. S.— J. B. J.— J. W. L.— E. S.— A. H.— C. F. W.— 

 W. W. W.— J. A., jun.— F. F.-J. T. R.— G. H. B.— J. A W. 

 — W. J. V. v.— A. M. D.— J. S. W.— W. A. L.— M.U.J. F. C. 

 —A. H.-L. F.-J. R.-C. A. L.— W. G. W.-J. H. B.-J. W. 

 — W. A. H.-L. S.-J. T.-S. W.— E. L.— J. A. O.-A. S.— 

 E. L.— W. W.— W. H. R.— W. H. H.-W. F.— T. E. D.— 

 H. H. C— J. H. L.-J. S.— M. S. D.-F. L. C— W. H. W.— 

 G. R. R.— G. B.— G. J. W.— H. J.— F. R. M.— F. W. F.— 

 A. M.F.-H. P. M.— T. P. D.— H. H.-T. R. J.-E. H.— 

 Dr. R. H.— B. L.— A. J. R. S.— Dr. M.— A. B. P.— H. P. M. 

 —J. F.— T. W.— J. J. M.-G. H. P.— E. H.— J. A.— J. B.— 

 G. T. B.— J. S.— &c. 



