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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



' Wilfred. — The insect sent was the common cockchafer 

 [_M elolo7Ulta vulgaris). 



G. F. W. — White floweis o^ S cilia nutans are not uncommon. 



C. ASMFORD. — Rye's "British Beetles" is the best you can 

 get. Among others are Cox's " Handbook of the Coleoptera 

 of Great Brit.-iin ;" Spry & Shiickard's " British Coleoptera 

 Delineated;" Stephen's "Manual of British Coleoptera ;" but 

 the fullest account (with exquisite illustrations) is in Curtis's 

 " British Entomology," a work in 8 vols., describing and illus- 

 trating all the genera of British insects. It was originally pub- 

 lished at ;{^44 io.f., but may now be obtained of such booksellers 

 as Wesley, Essex Street, Strand, at a much lower rate. The 

 other vols, may also be obtained there. 



F. G. F. Grant. — The bark of the silver fir is not affected 

 by a fungus, but by the abundant presence of Aphides, allied 

 to, if not identical with, those found on the bark of apple-trees, 

 called Eriosntna lanigera. It forms woolly patches which 

 protect the eggs and young, perhaps doubly, by screening them 

 from wet and cold, and by simulating the appearance of a white 

 fungus. 



W. Dalton Smith. — Many thanks for your slides of calcium 

 acetate. They make capital polariscope objects. Your other 

 slides are (No. i) Galls, called "oak spangles," made by a 

 species of Cynips (see " Half Hours in the Green Lanes," p. 197, 

 fig. 1^9) ; No. 2. found growing in Deane's gelatine medium, 

 is evidently the mycelia of some fungus, but it is difficult to say 

 what. 



T. S. Williams. — The leaf you sent us is part of the frond of 

 a fern, probably Alciconiis, and the brown objects you thought 

 were " rust" or funguses, are the sporangia, or spore-cases. 



A. S. is going to Lanarkshire, and wishes to obtain all pos- 

 sible information respecting the geology and entomology. Per- 

 haps some of our readers will help him. He will find Professor 

 Geikie's Geological Map of Scotland both necessary and useful. 



W. FoTHERCiLL. — Accept our best thanks for specimen of 

 malformed foxglove, which was a very interesting specimen. 



C. E. Wadding.— The mould on fig. was too obscure to be 

 specifically made out. 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, young hedgehogs with soft nascent spines, nest of 

 harvest mouse, and live specimens of British or foreign reptiles 

 and batrachians. Will give in exchange cash or other natural 

 history objects — J. M. Campbell, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. 



Fresh collected examples of nlmata, hnstaia, omicro7iaria, 

 nrgiolus, offered in exchange for lepidoptera or birds' eggs. — 

 G. Garrett, 13 Burlington Road, Ipswich. 



Will give a fe.v microscope slides for two full-grown frogs — 

 R. te»i[>oraria or esculenla ; latter preferred — B., 36 Windsor 

 Terrace, Glasgow. 



Sinilacina hifolia, Trientalis Europcca, Hi/'pophae rjiaiii- 

 noiiies, and other rare plants, in exchange for others not in col- 

 lection, either British, European, or North American. — J. A. 

 Wheldon, 9 South Street, Scarborough. 



Wanted, living or freshly-killed examples of British bats, 

 shrews, or field mice, especially the rarer ones. Will purchase 

 or exchange. — J. A. Wheldon, 9 South Street, Scarborough. 



Wanted, Gosse's " Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica," " Let- 

 ters from Alabama," Bell's "Crustacea," and several of the 

 Lovell Reeve Popular Series of Natural History, in exchange 

 for other books or cash. — C. A. Grimes, Dover. 



Larv.1? of B. hiriaria in exchange for northern or local lepi- 

 doptera.— G. Pearson, 16 Shakspeare Road, South Hornsey, N. 



Littorina lestuarii, Jeff, from the river Deben, in exchange 

 for other local species or varieties. — Wm. Jordan, Cockfield, 

 Sudbury, Suffolk. 



"Life of Edward Forbes," in good condition, published at 

 14J. (Griffith), "Text-book of the Microscope," equ.-d to new, 

 coloured plates, and other natural history books. What offers ? 

 Wanted, British plants, mosses, or grasses.— J. R. Murdoch, 

 24 Blenheim Place, Leeds. 



Wanted, dried plants of Nigelia Dantascena, Lamsnnia 

 incrmis. saffron, darnelgrass, wormwood, woods of aloes, olive 

 cedar of Lebanon, cypress, &c. — What exchanges ? — Tunley, 

 Southsea. 



Science-Gossip, in numbers, complete from the commence- 

 ment to the present date, will be given for a copy of Wilson's 

 " Bryologia Britannica."— J. C, The Athenasum, Manchester. 



"Midland Naturalist," vols. i. and ii., bound in cloth 

 Offers. Micro preparations, &c.— J. H. Ward, Oakley House 

 Caver.sham Hill, near Reading. ' 



Wanted, to exchange a full report of the meeting of the 

 British Association in Dublin (1878) and " Cassell's Popular 

 Educator" (new edition), parts 1 to 19, in perfect order, for any 

 suitable offer of books. History or law preferred. The former 

 would be given for a copy of Lord Macaulay's "Essays on 

 Warren Hastings and Lord Clive."— John Benner, 9 Bridge 

 Street, Tralee, Ireland. 



A VARIETY of good •-lides for exchange. Want unmounted 

 parasites, sections of horns and hoofs, palates of doris, trochus, 

 &c. — J. C. Blackshaw, Cross Street South, Wolverhampton. 



Wanted, nest and eggs of the following birds in exchange 

 for other eggs: — redback, shrike, nightingale, crossbill, lesser 

 whitethroat, goldfinch, hawfinch, fire-crested wren, brambling 

 finch, Lapland bunting, and nightjar, and kingfisher's egg in 

 clutches. Please send list of duplicates and receive mine. — H. 

 W.alton, Birtley House Lodge, birtley, Chester-le-Strcet. 



Suffolk crag shells, about eighty species. Wanted, 

 British birds' eggs. — Hugh Turner, Ipswich. 



Phyllobius nnifo7-mis, OtorJiyrichiis picipes, and other weevils 

 in exchange for any object of interest. — J. Stroud Williams, 

 The Manse, Mold. 



Wani ED, Science-Gossip for i88i in exchange for the first 

 twenty-five numbers of " Knowledge." — E. A. Snell, 70 City 

 Road, London. 



A few local side-blown eggs to exchange for others. — S. E. W. 

 Duvall, Butter Market, Ipswich. 



Wanted, British dragon-flies ; can give in exchange a few 

 lepidoptera or land and freshwater shells. ' — Geo. F. Wheeldon, 

 6 Newhall Street, Birm.ingham. 



Wanted, Stark's " History of British Mosses" in exchange 

 for any book value ^s. — H. Alexander, jun., Swanshurst, 

 Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood. 



Wanted, to exchange lepidoptera from Middlesex for common 

 birds' eggs or skins, English or foreign.— W. J. V. Vandenbergh, 

 F.M.S., Hornsey, N. 



Wanted, Hyoscyamns niger, in flower ; good exchange. — 

 Mr. Higginson, Newferry, Birkenhead. 



Duplicates : a large quantity of genuine foreign stamps to 

 exchange for lepidoptera or birds' eggs.— John E. Robson, 

 IS Northgate, Hartlepool. 



Side-blown eggs of dipper, rook, common sandpiper, common 

 tern, redshank, magpie, black-headed gull, moorhen, jackdaw, 

 &c., for other specimens. Unaccepted offers not answered. — 

 W. Edgar, Warwick Road, Carlisle. 



Offered, L. C, No. 53, 221 {Arenaria nliginosa, Hooker), 

 859, 1040, 1319, for other rare and well-dried plants. Send list 

 to Eric, 7 Shaftesbury Street, Stockton-on-Tees. 



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BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Ants, Bees, and Wasps.' By Sir John Lubbock, Bart,, 

 M.P., F.R.S. London : C. Kegan Paul & Co. 



"Notes on Cage-Birds." By W. T. Greene, M.D., &c. 

 London : L. Upcott Gill. 



"Synopsis of the Freshwater Rhizopods." By Romyn 

 Hitchcock. New York ; R.Hitchcock. 



"Annual Report of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club." 



" Natural History Notes." Vol. ii.. No. 6. 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Northern Microscopist." 



" Land and Water." 



" Studies in Microscopical Science." Parts i, 



" Aunt Judy's Maga7ine." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



"Popular Errors, &c., Connected with Natural History." 

 By J. A. Wheldon. 



" American Naturalist." 



"Canadian Entomologist." 



"Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade Trees." By A. S. 

 Packard. Washington : Government Printing Office. 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." 



" Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, New York." 



" Anales de la Sociedad Rural Argentina." Peru. 



" Revista." Oporio. 



"Journal of the Microscopical Societj- of Victoria." 

 I and 4. 



" La Science pour Tous." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to i2TH ult. from : — 

 C. P.— A.H. S.— W. B. G.— W. M. C. C— G. T. B.-E. L.— 

 W. J. V. v.— J. S.-W. C. O.-C. A.— Dr. C. C. A.— B. S.— 

 T. R. J.— W. F.— Dr. R. H.— F. K.-H. G. F.— J. H.— B. T. 

 —P. D.— A. W. P.— W. G.— J. S.— J. A. O.— T. E. L.— A. B. 

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

 — W. J.— C. A. G— J. A. W.- J. M. C— S. S.— J. R. N.— 

 H. P. M.— J. L.— W. D. S.— W. H. T.— W. W. W.-E. P. D. 

 —J. B.— J. R. M.— H. R. A.— C. H. T.-E. H. T.— A. R. S. 

 —A. B. P.— F. G. F. G.— J. C— W. C. H.— J. H. W.— H. W. 

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

 —J. S. W.— A. H. S.— C. E. W.— E. C— W. E.— J. E. P.— 

 H. L.— E. L.— E. B. K. W.— J. E. R.— H. H.-E. W.-E. M. 

 — &c. 



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