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HARDWICKKS SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



For exchange, thirty-two last parts "Journal of Geological 

 Society," and other scientific works. Wanted, "Journal of 

 Chemical Society," and other standard scientific works. — G. 

 Freeman, 51 Danby Street, Denmark Park, London, S.E. 



Sph. ovale and PL dilatatus from an entirely new Lancashire 

 locality, H. pomatia, L. pcregra, var. solemia and Boisii, and 

 others. Desiderata, British and foreign land and freshwater 

 shells.— W. Hy. Heathcote, INLC.S., East View, Preston. 



I SHOULD be very glad to receive heads of any animals or 

 birds, recently dead, for dissection. — A. W. Harrison, Assist. 

 Demonstrator of Anatomy, Westminster Hospital Medical 

 School, Caxton Street, London, S.W. 



Forty varieties of animal hairs, mostly foreign, in exchange 

 for six good slides. — .'\rthur H. Williams, Hythe. 



Offered, Helix Caniiana, virgata, rotuttdaia, hortensis, 

 Zonites cellarhis, Physa. hypnorum, Anodonta anatina, Plan- 

 orbis contorta, corneits, Bythinia Leachii, tentaculata. Pupa 

 uinbilicata, Paludina vivipara, Le»tncsa glabra, in exchange 

 for other shells. — J. A. Wheldon, York. 



Offered, Bartramia pomiformis, var. crispa, arciiaia, 

 fontana, CEdeH, Sphagmun rigidion, compactum, rubellur>i, 

 tenelhiin, Pottea iriincata, Keckera crispa, Tctraplodon 

 7iiucoides, Hedwigia ciliata, Schistostega osmundacea, Grini- 

 tnia apocarpa, var. rivulare, Racomitriuin laniiginosiim, 

 Climaciiiin dendroides. Hyp. cordifoliuin, iincittatum, adiin- 

 cum, comiimtatum, tnolhiscuiii. Wanted, many common 

 mosses and lichens. — J. A. Wheldon, York. 



Wanted, British or foreign insects in spirit (correctly named), 

 recent specimens. State wants ; good exchange in various un- 

 mounted micro material ; many good things offered for suitable 

 specimens. Address with list and sample — R. M., 24 Park 

 Road, Clapham, London, S.W. 



"Nature," Vols. 23 and 24, bound, in splendid condition; 

 what offers? Will take botanical micro slides, various, &c. — 

 J. Hunter, Sea View, Buncrana, near Londonderry. 



L. stagnalis, very large, Buliinus acutjis, var. bczona of 

 Bulimits aciiiiis, also H. virgata, and var. submaritima of 

 H. virgata and L. glabra, also eggs of thrush, blackbird, 

 starling, water-hen, partridge, missel thrush, &c. &c. De- 

 siderata very numerous. — W. Hewett, 3 Wilton Terrace, Ful- 

 ford Road, York. 



Wanted, Teall's "British Petrography," Phillips's "Ore 

 Deposits," Daubree's " Geologic Experimentale," and the 

 " Quarterly Journ. Geolog., Society " for Nov. 1883, and other 

 numbers. — X. Y. Z., 103 Hill's Road, Cambridge. 



Offered, a well-preserved specimen of a scorpion, quite 

 perfect and recent. Wanted, micro material, marine objects 

 preferred, sponge spicules, or material of a similar character, 

 alga or good zoophytes, British or foreign ; all must be 

 correctly named, unmounted. — R. M., 24 Park Road, Clapham, 

 London, S.W. 



Wanted, physiological and scientific micro slides in ex- 

 change for polarising, opaque, and other popular objects. — 

 Henry Ebbage, 344 Caledonian Road, London. 



Wanted, entomological material in quantity, suitable for 

 microscopical mounting ; good micro slides or otherwise given 

 in lieu. Communicate before sending. — H. Francis, 14 York 

 Place, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, fossils from crag, Woolwich beds, London clay, 

 Thanet sands and Bracklesham beds, in exchange for those 

 from the chalk, greensand, coal measures, and a few American 

 eocene fossils ; also about sixty coloured plates of fossil shells. 

 Send lists. — Geo. E. East, jun., 10 Basinghall Street, London, 

 E.C. 



Offered, Vols, i., ii. and iii. of Cassell's "Technical 

 Educator," bound edition. Wanted, natural history books, 

 specimens (not entomological) or micro accessories. — G. P. 

 Best, 33 First Avenue, Harrow Road, London, W. 



" Familiar Birds' Eggs and Nest<,' by H. G. Adams, with 

 sixteen coloured plates, beautifully bound as new ; will ex- 

 change for side-blown birds' eggs. Please send list of eggs in 

 exchange to — Henry T. Booth, Upcerne Road, Chelsea. 



A FEW specimens of Euplcctella aspcrgilluin in exchange 

 for scientific books, " Quekett Microscopical Journal," Vols. i. 

 and ii., 2nd series, wanted particularly, or offers. — W. H. 

 Harris, 44 Partridge Road, Cardiff. 



Offered. — L. C., 8th ed. : 229, 351, 552, 538, 662, 919, 931, 

 970, 986, 1046, 1162, 1269, 1330, 1335, and 1558, in exchange 

 for others. — A. Sangster, Ivy Cottage, Cattie, Old Meldrum, 

 N.B. 



Will exchange a small collection of about a hundred dif- 

 ferent species of mosses and lichens, from Bt:lgium and Luxem- 

 burg, for natural history specimens, siarfish or echinoderms 

 preferred, not necessarily British. — Hugh B. Preston, 54 Lex- 

 ham Gardens, Kensington, W. 



Will exchange unset British butterflies, also set specimens 

 of the Apollo butterfly [Parnassias Apollo), for natural history 

 specimens, starfish or echini preferred, not necessarily British. 

 Hugh B. Preston, 54 Lcxham Gardens, Kensington, W. 



Hooker's "Student's British Flora," 2nd edit., VVatter's 

 "Birds of Ireland," "Wild Life in a Southern County," &c., in 

 exchange for other books, or offers. — Rev. W. W. Flemyng, 

 Clonegam Rectory, Portlaw, co. Waterford. 



Any of the following eggs for clutches of many other species: 

 clutches of sparrow hawk, kestrel, common buzzard, American 



robin, sedge warbler, gold crest, great tit, jackdaw, magpie, 

 red-backed shrike, reed bunting, tree and meadow pipit, sky- 

 lark, nightjar, golden-winged woodpecker, moor hen, coote, 

 ringed plover, lapwing, curlew, sandpiper, common snipe, 

 common, Arctic, sooty and Riippell's terns, kittiwake, common 

 L. B. B. and G. B. B. gulls, great skua, little grebe, mute 

 swans; and eggs of sheldrake, pheasant, partridge, hen harrier, 

 honey buzzard, dipper, grasshopper and Dartford warblers, 

 corn crake, water rail, oyster catcher, whimbrel, dunlin, puffin, 

 razor bill, guillemot, stormy petrel. — J. B. Young, 2 Elgin 

 Villas, Rodwell, Weymouth. 



Wanted, all or any of the following shells: Pholadidea 

 papyracea, Pholas crispata, Scalaria Turtonce, lanthina 

 cxigua, I. rotnndata, BucciniDit H ittnplireysiatium. Pinna 

 pectinaia, P. rudis, Isocardia cor, five kinds q{ Fusiises,Pcctt'ii. 

 glaber [iigrittus], Veneriipis iris, Gastrochcena ntodiolina, 

 Anomia striata, A. patelliformis, Avicitla tarentina, Einar- 

 gimila crassa, axxd. Xylop/iaga dorsalis. Good exchange given 

 in other British shells, minerals, fossils, polished Devonian 

 cora'.s and sponges, thin sections for micro purposes, &c. — 

 A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Offered, upwards of seventy numbers of " Band of Hope 

 Review," dating from 1881 to 1888 ; would make a good 

 volume of interesting reading if bound together, or otherwise, 

 in exchange for rare foreign stamps. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 

 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



A duplicate collection of British mosses, over 300 species, 

 correctly named and mounted, in exchange for foreign mosses, 

 hepaticae or algae (algae especially wanted), or exchanges in 

 these plants solicited. — J. Miles, 25 Sudeley Place, Kemp 

 Town, Brighton. 



What offers for "Biological Atlas," "A Guide to the Prac- 

 tical Study of Plants and Animals," 423 coloured figures and 

 diagrams, by D. M'AIphine, quite new. — Walter HoUebon, 

 Newark House, Langney Road, Eastbourne. 



Wanted, varieties of H. nemoralis and hortensis, and 

 living slugs, in exchange for other land and freshwater shells. — 

 F. G. Fenn, Isleworth, Middlesex. 



Vols. I.-IV. of Science-Gossip, bound, and choice micro- 

 slides of parasites, diatoms, botanical, double-stained, &c., 

 in exchange for other choice slides. — R. Suter, 5 Highweek 

 Road, Tottenham. 



Twenty-four good microscopic slides in cloth-covered rack 

 box ; will exchange for three fir.st issue Jubilee sixpences. — 

 W. Mathie, 127 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. 



Wanted, to exchanae N. American or European plants, for 

 Australian, Indian, African, or S. American ; also British and 

 Continental plants for N. American. — A. E. Lomax, 56 Vaux- 

 hall Koad, Liverpool. 



The "MvRiAroDA." — The undersigned is very desirous of 

 communicating with some one who has made a study of this 

 group, for the identification of an apparently undescribed form, 

 which is marine (three to four fathoms). — ^J. Sinel, Cleveland 

 Road, Jersey. 



Clean, washed, and picked foraminifera, from Atlantic 

 mud, with locality and depth, in exchange for good objective. — 

 A. H. Delap, Clonmel. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Eulogy of Richard Jeffries," by Walter Besant 

 (London : Chatto & Windus). — "Truth for its own Sake — The 

 Story of Charles Darwin," by W. Mawer (London: Swan 

 Sonnenschein).— "Land and Freshwater Shells," by J. W. 

 Williams, J. W. Taylor, and W. Decissar Roebuck (London : 

 Swan Sonnenschein). — "Catalogue of the Collection of New 

 Zealand Birds, Manor House, Letcomb Regis, Wantage," bv 

 Sir W. L. Buller (London: E. A. Petherick).—" Electric 

 Bells and all about them," by S. R. Bottone (London : 

 Whittaker & Co.).— " Book Chat."— "The Amateur Photo- 

 grapher." —" The Garner." — "The Naturalist." — " The 

 Botanical Gazette." — "Journal of the New York Microscopical 

 Society." — "Belgravia." — "The Gentleman's Magazine." — 

 "American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — "The Essex 

 Naturalist." — "The Midland Naturalist." — "Feuilles des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes." — " The American Naturalist." — " Journal 

 of Microscopy and Nat. Science." — " Ottawa Naturalist." — 

 " Scientific News."—" Wesley Naturalist," &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the ioth ult. from : 



A. U K. A. D.— C. P.— M. E. A.— A. H. L. S.— E. H. R.— 



R. N.— O.— M.— F. T. S— F. R. R.-A. W. H.-R. C— 

 J. H.— R. P.— W. H. H.— M. B.— B.— A. H. W.— K. E. S.— 

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

 J. W. W.— A. H. S.— M. H. B.— G. E. E.— J. B. Y.— 

 H. L. B.— W. W. F.— S. Mc. I.— G. F. G.— G. P. B.— 

 W. E. W. (?).— R. M.— W. H. H.— G. F.— H. T. B.— E. T. H. 

 -C. P.— H. W.— E. H. R.— J. E.— G. H.-H. A..F.— E. W. W. 

 G. W. N.— E. B.— J. H. R.— J. C. E.— J. S.— M. W. J.— 

 W. M. W.— S. D.— G. W.— J. T.— A. S.— T. J. P.— W. J. P. 

 A. J. R. S.— A. G. T.-B. I. F.— A. V.-W. E. S.— W. H.— 

 A. E. L.— G. W. K.— W. H.— R. S.— F. G. F.— J. H.— J. S.— 

 W. M.— E. E. L.— J. G.— A. H. D.— J. H. C R.— E. H., 

 &c. &c. 



