48 



HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



" Half-hours with the Microscope" (Tuffin West), twenty odd 

 numbers of the " Entomologist," previous to 1870, "Insect 

 Hunters" (Newman). Wanted, Rimmer's "Land and Fresh- 

 water Shells," side-blown eggs, shells, &c. — Thos. H. Hed- 

 worth, Dunston, Gateshead. 



Sheep flukes (unmounted) in exchange for other interesting 

 object. — I. S. Williams, Livingstone Villa, Iffley Road, Oxford. 



Wanted, English regal or Colonial copper coins, 17th or 

 1 8th century tokens, also war or other medals, in exchange for 

 named English shells or fossils. — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, the two last volumes, or any odd numbers from 

 166, of C. £. Sowerby's small edition of "English Botany," 

 containing plants of Great Britain. Good exchange. — Mrs. 

 Bishop, The Platts, Watford. 



Duplicates. — lo, S. ligustri, ligniperda, tipuUformis, 

 saiubucata, tiliaria, rhomboidaria, phragmitis, lithojcylea, 

 chrysitis, iota, lariciana, and occuliana. Desiderata, pupse 

 of A. sinuata, and offers. — George Balding, Ruby Street, 

 Wisbech. 



Wanted, Vol. H. of Science-Gossip, bound or in numbers, 

 the latter preferred ; mounted micro slijies for polarizer, offered 

 in exchange, or offers. — W. Wise, Chemist, Lancashire. 



Wanted, dragonflies, crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, ear- 

 wigs and cockroaches. Offered, lepidoptera, shells, echino- 

 derms, algee, &c. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



To beginners. — I have about ico duplicates of British butter- 

 flies, which I will distribute among the first half-dozen readers 

 of Science-Gossip who will forward box and return postage 

 before Feb. 15.— W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Twelve specimens of V, urticce, in papers, will be posted to 

 any juvenile reader of Science-Gossip who will forward a 

 stamped directed envelope. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, 

 Birmingham. 



Quantity of minerals, &c., in exchange for volcanic, gem, 

 or auriferous sand for micro slides ; also red crag fossils in 

 exchange for common silurian ones. — A. G. H., 10 St. John's 

 Hill, New Wandsworth, S.W. 



Shall be glad to exchange any of the following for clutches 

 of many other species : clutches of American robin, sedge 

 warbler, gold crest, great tit, jackdaw and magpie, reed 

 bunting, tree and meadow pipit, skylark, nightjar, golden- 

 winged woodpecker, moor hen and coot, lapwing, ringed 

 plover, curlew, snipe, common and Arctic terns, sooty and 

 Riippell's terns, kittiwake, common L. B. B. and G. B. B. 

 gulls, great skua, little grebe, mute swan, and eggs of shel- 

 drake, pheasant, partridge, hen harrier, Dartford warbler, 

 water rail, dunlin, puffin, guillemot, ringed guillemot, razor 

 bill, whimbrel, and stormy petrel. — Capt. Young, R.N., Rod- 

 well, Weymouth. 



Wanted, microscopic or stereoscopic slides, in exchange for 

 magic lantern, 2-in. condenser, with thirty slides. — H. Ebbage, 

 344 Caledonian Road, London. 



Wanted, stereoscope and slides ; exchange microscope and 

 slides. — H. Ebbage, 344 Caledonian Road, London. 



For exchange, a collection of 400 micro slides (many pro- 

 fessionally mounted), also pine cabinet to hold 288 slides. 

 Wanted, Shaw's " Eclipse " photo apparatus, or other good 

 detective camera, i-plate size, must be in good order. — W. A. 

 Hyslop, 22 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh. 



Science-gossip for Feb. 1885 {No. 242) wanted, to make up 

 volume. Will pay \s. for clean and complete copy, or send 

 MoUer's test-slide [Gramtnatophora subtilissima) , dry, in ex- 

 change. — M. Hafen, Ditton, Widoes, Lanes. 



Duplicates. — H. sericea, H. lapicida, H. pulchella, //. 

 arbustonint, V. alpestris, and many others. Wanted, British 

 land, freshwater and marine shells. — A. Hartley, 8 Cavendish 

 Road, Idle, near Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, " Quarterly Journal Geo. Society," part containing 

 paper on the "Thanet Sand," Prestwich, 1852; also part con- 

 taining paper on "The Woolwich and Reading Beds," Prest- 

 wich, 1854. — Geo. E. East, jun., 10 Basinghall Street, London, 

 E.G. 



Wanted, whole insects in spirit, Brilish or foreign, also 

 zoophytes ; all must be correctly named. Well-mounted micro 

 objects or micro material offered in exchange. A well-preserved 

 scorpion (recent), in first-rate condition ; open to any offer in 

 any of the above, or other unmounted objects. List to — R. M., 

 24 Park Road, Clapham, London, S.W. 



Offered, L. C., 8th ed.: 5^, 9, 58, ddb, 100, 119, 126, 127, 

 17s, 178, 189, 197, 199, 207, 222, 234f, 249c, 251, 253, 256, 300, 

 357. 394'^. 439. 509^ 5 14'^. SU'. S14/. 5M^. S'4''. SM^. SM". 

 S14A 515*. 526, 532a, 532*, 57si, 585, 601, 649, 650, 662, 712, 

 788, 795, 904, 917, 928^, 974, 995/!^, 1267, 1326, 1412, 1417, 1418, 

 1558, 1563, 1579, 1590, 1591, 1592, &c. &c. Lists requested. — 

 F. C. King, Bank Villa, Fulwood, Preston. 



For exchange, first-class clutches of eggs from Asia Minor 

 and North America, such a.s Egyptian vulture, osprey, bald 

 eagle, kites, buzzards, hen and Montajus' harriers, lesser 

 kestrel, hobby, mottled owl, roUeri, bee-eater, Barbary and 

 red-legged partridges, Andalusian quails, com. quails, bustards, 

 pratincoles, sooty and noddy terns, and others. Send lists of 

 duplicates to — W. Raine, Walton Street, Toronto, Canada. 



Wanted in clutches, eggs of white-tailed eagle, peregrine 

 falcon, kestrel, long-eared owl, short-eared owl, dipper, red- 

 wing, gold crest, meadow pipit, skylark, cuckoo, golden plover. 



curlew, heron, kittiwake, oystercatcher, com. gull, stormy 

 petrel, spoonbill, raven, red grouse, wood and purple sand- 

 pipers, swan, ducks, and many others. Offered, several 

 clutches of osprey, Pallas' sand-grouse, Bartram's sandpiper, 

 Egyptian vultures, and over fifty other species collected in 

 North America and Asia Minor. — W. Raine, Walton Street, 

 Toronto. 



Science-Gossip for i8n5-68 (bound) ; 1875 (unbound) ; and 

 Nos. 121, 177, 179: "Knowledge," parts 1-14 ; "Natural 

 History Review," 1865. Wanted, "Entomologists," part?, — 

 Aug., 1881, Oct.-Dec, 1881, Jan. -June, 1879 ; Science-Gossip, 

 1871 ; Lepidoptera, or micro material. — C. S. Bouttell, 7 Irene 

 Road, Fulham. 



Wanted, standard works on zoology, comparative anatomy, 

 microscopy (especially histology), &c. — Apply, stating require- 

 ments, to F. R. Rowley, 60 Lower Hastings Street, Southfields, 

 Leicester. Unaccepted offers not answered. 



Will exchange a collection of about 100 species of British 

 b'rds' eggs, for botanical or microscopical books. — J. E. Nowers, 

 71 Branstone Road, Burton-on-Trent. 



For exchange, Science-Gossip, vols. 1865, i866, 1867, 1868, 

 1869, and 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877 (unbound), also 1870 (bound). 

 — J. G., 26 Gt. Chatham Street West, Manchester. 



Wanted, Ped. cap., vestimenti, and pubis, and other 

 parasites, in exchange for micro slides, or offers. — Fred Lee 

 Carter, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Small duplicate collection of British land, freshwater, and 

 marine shells, forty species, named, in exchange for micro slides, 

 turntable, or offers. — J. B. Beckett, Trinity Place, Friar's Lane, 

 Gt. Yarmouth. 



A Quantity of good micro slides in exchange for books, 

 other slides, or offers. — A. Draper, Cemetery Road, Sheffield. 



British and Foreign algaa oflfered in exchange for others, 

 Tasmanian, Australian, and S. American species especially 

 desired. — E. M. Holmes, Bradbourne Dene, Sevenoaks, Kent. 



Marine algse, collected in Shetland and North Ireland, 

 wanted in exchange for rare southern species. — E. M. Holmes, 

 Bradbourne Dene, Sevenoaks. 



What offers for sea anemones and other specimens for sea- 

 water aquarium ? Wanted, Science-Gossip numbers for 

 November and December, 1881, also for years 1882 and 1883. 

 — Walter Hollebon, Newark House, Langney Road, East- 

 bourne. 



Wanted, last edition of Hobkirk's "Synopsis of Mosses," 

 in exchange dried plants, mosses, birds (stuffed) or eggs. — J. A. 

 Wheldon, High Ousegate, York. 



Wanted, good specimens of most of the British Grasses, in 

 exchange for Botanical, or Pathological micro-slides (the 

 diagnosis of the Pathological guaranteed). — B. Piffard, Hill 

 House, Hemel Hempsted, Herts. 



Wanted, British stone implements in exchange for slides as 

 above. — B Piffard, Hill House, Hemel Hempsted, Herts. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Evidences of the Antiquity of Man in Eastern North 

 America," by Chas. C. Abbot."— " The Antiquary."— "The 

 Bookworm." — " Proceedings of Society of Amateur Geologists." 

 — "Evidences of the Antiquity of Man in Leicestershire," by 

 Montague Browne, F. Z. S. — " Official Year Book of the 

 Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland 

 for 1887." — " Mineral Resources of the United States." — "Geo- 

 logical History of Lake Lahouton," by J. C. Russell 

 (Washington). " Pneumatics," by C. Tomlinson, 4th ed. 

 (London: Crosby Lockwood & Co.).— "Book Ch.at."— "The 

 Century Magazine." — " The Amateur Photographer." — " The 

 Garner." — " The Naturalist." — " Cassell's Technical Edu'da- 

 tor." " The Botanical Gazette."—" Belgravia."—" The Gentle- 

 man's Magazine."—" American Monthly Microscopical Jour- 

 nal." — "The Essex Naturalist." — "Wesley Naturalist," — 

 "Journal of Conchology." — "The Midland Naturalist." — 

 " Research in Life-Lore." — "Feuilles des Jeunes Naturalistes." 

 — "The American Naturalist." — "Journal of Microscopy and 

 Nat. Science." — "Canadian Entomologist." — "Ottawa Natu- 



alist." — "Victoria Naturalist." — " The Microscope." — Journal 



f Royal Society of New South Wales, &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the ioth 



E. B.— W. J. S.— I. T. D.— W. A. G.— M. P. C. 

 J. B.— J. H. F.— R. S— T. W.— E. E. G.— T. 

 A. J. H. C— Dr. C. C. A.— H. C. C— J. S.— J. 

 G. T. R.— E. & Soil.— W. W.— J. G.— R. C— T. 

 — W. S.— J. E. N.— B. P. M.— S. K. G— R. M.- 



F. E.— E. H. N.— J. W. W.— W. H. T.— H. L. 

 J. E. L.— W. J. A.— R. M.— B. T.— W. M. W.- 

 A. G. H.— M. H.— F. C. K.-A. H.— G. E. 

 J. P. N.— W. A. H.— T. R.— G. B.— W. W.— H. 

 — W. H. B.— Mrs. B.— T. S. K.— F. S. J. B. Y 

 T. H. H.— A. B.— F. L. T.— W. H.— E. M. 

 J. B. B.— F. L. C— J. G.— F. C— M. J.— J. E. 

 F. R. R.— C. H. B.— A. C. T,— A. ]. J.-B. T.— ' 

 F. H. H.— B. P., &c. &c. 



ult. from : 

 ,— A. G. T.— 



D. A. C— 

 M.— P. T.— 

 S.— E. A. H. 

 -A.J. N. S.— 

 — F. C. L.— 

 — W. A. L.— 



E.-J. C- 

 E.— H. PM. 

 .—J. S. W.— 

 H.— A. D.— 



N.— C. E.— 

 ■T. & B. K.— 



