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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Wanted, correspondents in all parts of the world to exchange 

 micro material. — F. L. Carter, 20 Trafalgar Street, Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne. 



North-American Lepidoptera in exchange for European 

 and exotic living cocoons of lo, Luna, Polyphemus, Cecropia, 

 and Promethia, for Selene, Atlas, and other species. — Robert 

 Bartholomew, 749 North 26th Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 



Hundreds of good seal impressions, mostly ancient, offered 

 in exchange for others, or curiosities of almost any kind. — 

 W. H. Tunley, 3 Albert Road, Southsea. 



Wanted, British or foreign butterflies and beetles in ex- 

 change for British and foreign sea-weeds, plants, mosses, 

 minerals, and fossils. Foreign correspondents much wanted. — 

 B. B. Scott, I SmoUet Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 



Wanted, foreign toads, frogs, and other amphibia, in spirits 

 or skin ; exchange rare birds' and animals' skins, insects, &c.— 

 G. E. Mason, 6 Park Lane, Piccadilly, London. 



British Polyzoa, named, to be given away. — Apply during 

 the month of December to Miss Jelly, Springfield, Reigate. 



Six to seven hundred British wild plants, many very rare, 

 named and localised, in exchange for I5ritish or foreign shells, 

 or cash. — B., 136 Ashmore Road, St. Peter s Park, London, W. 



Wanted, ofl'ers of any odd parts of " The Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural Historj-," micro slides of palates ; British land 

 and freshwater shells, or books, in exchange.— J. Darker-But- 

 terell, 2 St. John Street, Beverley. 



Wanted, living specimens of British nudibranchs or south- 

 coast anemones and madrepores ; exchange as above. — J. 

 Darker-Butterell, 2 St. John Street, Beverley. 



Exotic butterflies: wanted, names of collectors wishing to 

 exchange duplicates. To microscopists : wings of Morphos, 

 Uranias and other brilliant exotics. Newspapers: wanted, 

 names of persons taking the "Entomologist," "Entomologists' 

 Monthly Magazine," " Exchanse and Mart," "Graphic," 

 " Illustrated News," and " Pictorial World," with a view to the 

 exchange of papers. — J. C. Hudson, Railway Terrace, Cross 

 Lane, Manchester. 



Duplicates : Cyclas cornea, Bitkynia, Neritina, Limnca 

 yragilis, Planorbis corneus, vortex and marginatiis, Helix 

 virgata, and variety maritimus ; ericetornni, rotundata, Zo- 

 nites alliarius, Buiimus acutus, CcratisoUn Ugujuen. — W. 

 Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Fungus on grass (Epichloe typJienn) for any other unmounted 

 fungi. — T. H. Swallow, 25 Market Street, Newcastle-on-l'yne. 



For exchange, a quantity of microscopic slides, material, &c. 

 — F. S. Lydaon, 2 Oakland Villa, Redland, Bristol. 



For exchange, large stock of microscope slides: vegetable 

 .sections, dissections, and many sphagnum leaves, stained and 

 true to name, all mounted in Canada balsam, and good work- 

 manship. Wanted, British wild plants : chief local ones, also 

 northern ones, and British Longicorns. The slides will be sent 

 on approval.— B. Piffard, Hill House, Hemel Hempsted, Herts. 



A BE.\UTIFUL copy of the " Imperial Lexicon," 2 vols., half 

 calf, and Albert von Kampen's Fifteen Maps illustrating 

 " Cxsar's Gallic War" (new) in exchange for fossils, micro 

 slides or shells, or in part payment for a good mineral and fossil 

 cabinet.— Rev. J. Finnemore, Broomfield Place, Witton, Black- 

 bum. 



Will exchange the following stuffed birds and skins for books 

 or anything useful : — Stuffed heron, turtle-dove, partridge, 

 greenfinch, golden-crested wren, and cock pheasant. Skins : 

 wood-pigeon, great black -backed gull, silver pheasant, kestrel, 

 barn owl, linnet, blackbird (variety with white feathers), land- 

 rail, swift, and golden hen pheasant.— Alfred Baker, Tewkes- 

 bury. 



Wanted, in quantities, foreign birds' eggs, well-blown and 

 correctly named, either for cash or e.xchange.— W. K. Mann, 

 Wellington Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, fossils from chalk or corals (either rough or po- 

 lished) from carboniferous limestone, Clifton, in exchange for 

 trilobites and corals from Silurian. Offers. — H. L., 197 Deri- 

 tend, Birmingham. 



The following starches, unmounted, for a good well-mounted 

 micro slide (ground glass). Arrowroots collected by the late 

 Dr. Letheby: Maranta, St. Kitt's, St. Vincent, East India 

 (^Curcuma angvstifolia), Bermuda, Jamaica, Tahiti, Portland, 

 Brazil.— M. D., 2 Westbury Gardens, Clapham Park, S.W. 



Wanted, living specimens of Trichovianes riidica?is, Pteris 

 serrulata, Pteris cretica, Platyceriitm alicorne, Lomaria gibba. 

 Microscopic slides offered in exchange.— J. C. H., 8 Lansdowne 

 Crescent, Glasgow. 



Machaon, Edusa, Comma, for exchange. Desiderata: 

 Hyale, Sinapis, Cassiope, Aglaia, Athalia, Adonis, ^gon, 

 Actxon. — A. S. Jones, Trumpington House, Cambridge. 



For ejcchaiige Abbe's binocular, by Zeiss, new. Wanted, 

 Kalfs' Desmidica, or good unicellular algae or diatom slides.— 

 G. Clifford, 2 Rue Scribe, Paris. 



Wanted, botanical books, especially fern books.— E. G., 

 Masham Vicar.-ige, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip for 187s, imbound, clean copy.— 

 D. Adamson, Watson Street, Motherwell, N.B. 



A gre.\t number of rare and well-set British lepidoptera for 

 eggs in clutches, owls, hawks, sandpipers, stints, and terns 

 especially wanted ; have also last two vols, of Science-Gossip. 

 — Thomas H. Hedworth, Dunston, Gateshead. 



Duplicates: Paphia, Sinapis, Alsus, Adippe, Selene, Poly- 

 chlorus, and Linea. Desiderata : Edusa, Cardamines, Galathea, 

 Semele, Thecla, Corydon, and Sibylla, — F. A. Skuse, 143 Step- 

 ney Green, London, E. 



Offered, L.C, 7th ed., 11, 177, 184, 196, 365b, 495, 497, 579, 

 588, 595, 626, 739, 831, 841, 901, 906, 923, 1012b, 1039, 1141, 

 1142, 1151, iisib, 1240, 1287, 1358, 1395, 1416, 1431, 1447, 1458, 

 1470, 1499, 1504, 1519, 1565, and many others. Send complete 

 lists of duplicates and desiderata to F. C. King, i Tulketh 

 Crescent, Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire. 



For seeds of Datura stramonium, send stamped envelope to 



F. C. King, I Tulketh Crescent, Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire. 

 Duplicate eggs from a collection of about 600 varieties, in- 

 cluding British, American, and Indian, to exchange for others, 

 either British or foreign. Correspondence invited. — George A. 

 Widdas, Woodley View, Leeds. 



Wanted, Loudon's " Encyclopedia of Plants" and Decaisne 

 and Le Maout's "General System of Botany;" must be recent 

 editions, and in good condition. Reply, stating price, to J. 

 Boyd, Deans Bridge, Armagh, Ireland. 



Eggs of black-headed gull, dunlin, oystercatcher, grey wag- 

 tail, dipper, pied flycatcher, common sandpiper, redshank, and 

 common tern, for other one-holed specimens. Unaccepted offers 

 not answered.— W. Edgar, Warwick Road, Carlisle, Cumberland. 



Large cylinder, electric machine, and microscope, for sale or 

 exchange.— H. W. Wager, Middle Street, Stroud, Gloucester. 



Wanted, human pathological slides : state what required. — 



G. F. H., 4 Richmond Road, Barnsbury, London, N. 

 Wanted, correspondents in the colonies (not dealers) to ex- 

 change specimens of natural history, especially lepidoptera.— 

 A. H. Shepherd, 4 Cathcart Street, Kentish Town, London, 

 England. 



LoND. Cat., 3b, 4a, 7, 10, 24b, 80, 130c, 187, 209, 233, 258, 

 260, 280, 532, 568, 587, 625,634, 809, 865, got, 1041, 1259, 1342b, 

 1422, i50ti 1597, 1613. Potajnogcion Zizzii, Potentilla .Vor- 

 vegica, &c., for other rare British plants. Lists exchanged.— 

 P. F. Lee, West Park Villas, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. 



British mosses and phanerogams offered for British or foreign 

 shells, especially marine. — W. West, 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



Wanted, mounted and unmounted anatomical and patho- 

 logical sections, also botanical stained sections, and all kinds of 

 unmounted material ; exchange first-class slides. — F. R. Martin, 

 Clevedon. 



Wanted, specimens of Crustaceae ; will exchange for Lias 

 fossils.— J. Bennison, Golden Lion Bank, Whitby, Vorks. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED, 



" Chapters in Evolution." By Dr. Anten Wilson. London : 

 Chatto and Windus. 



" Diseases of Memory." By Th. Ribot. London : Kegaa 

 Paul and Co. 



"Winners in Life's Race." By A. B. Buckley. London: 

 E. Stanford. 



" Studies in Microscopical Science." Edited by A. C. Cole. 

 Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 



" Land and Water." 



"The Field Naturalist." 



"Natural History Notes." 



"The Naturalists' Monthly." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Northern Microscopist." 



"Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Botanical Gazette." 



" Canadian Entomologist." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



"La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" Le Monde de la Science.'' 



" La Science pour Tous." 



" Ciel et Terre." 



" Revista." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to i2TH ult. from: — 

 J. H. B.— A. D. M.— W. P. E.— E. L. A.-C. W.— E. M. B. 

 — C C. A.— R. C— E. G. H.— W. S.— J. H. D.— T. E. L.— 

 E. D. M.— H. L.— R. S. A.— E. L.— H. M.— J. T. S.— 

 W. J. S.— S. A. B.— A. H. S.-H. C— W. E. S.— E. G.— 

 H. E. W.— H. W. K.— B. B. W.— F. L. C— T. H. S.— 

 J. H. H.— R. T. A.— F. H. P.— J. C. H.— B. M. O.— W. H. 

 W. B.— E. C. J.— G. E. M.— W. G.— B. B. S.— F. E.— J. D. B. 

 — W. H. T.— W. C— W. B. G.— G. H. B.— E. H.— W. C. H. 

 —A. A.— C. R.— H. T. S.- W. W. W.— Dr. P. Q. K.— J. J.— 

 G. M. W— J. G.— G. A. K.-l!. P.— J. F.— F. S. L.— G. W. C. 

 —J. C. H.— J. W. G.— W. K. M.— T. J. N.— C. F. G.— A. J. 

 —Dr. N.— R. C.-H. C. L.-A. B.— T. M. R.-J. A. W.— 

 D. A.— S. W. H.— F. A. S.— G. A. W.— H. J. B.— F. C. K.— 

 C. S— R. S. P.— G. F. H.— A. W.— A. H. S.— P. F. L.— 

 W. J. R. v.— W. W.— W. M.— P. M. K.— G. S. T.— 

 H. W. W.— W. E.— J. B — W. M. P.— R. M. C— F. R. M.— 

 F. G. S. T.— J. B.— J. H. M.— O. P. C— &c. 



