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Macduff fishermen shot their nets at from one to 

 three miles out, and had good average catches. — 

 W. Sim, Fyvic. 



Cats. — Mr. Mattieu Williams's note in the last 

 number of Science-Gossip anent "Cats at the 

 British Association," reminds me that at the little 

 village of Dinas Powis, about four miles from Cardiff, 

 a Manx cat was introduced to the neighbourhood 

 very many years since and long ago went the way of 

 all flesh. Nevertheless, to this day, individuals appear 

 minus the caudal appendage, while its brothers and 

 sisters adopt the prevailing fashion of cats in general, 

 and appear fully equipped in this particular.— ]V. H. 

 Harris, Cardiff. 



Pips Germinating. — I see in a recent Science- 

 Gossip an account of a lemon pip germinating 

 inside the fruit. The following came under my 

 notice. Early in September of last year, my wife, 

 having cut a lemon in two, was surprised to find in 

 one of the halves what she supposed to be a piece of 

 stick, which she took out and threw away. On 

 examining the pips, &c., in the strainer after the juice 

 had been strained, she found one of the pips with a 

 root. On being told this I searched for the supposed 

 piece of stick, and found it to consist of a plumule 

 about three inches long, part of which was green, 

 and two leaves, \ inch by \ inch, also green. The 

 light must have penetrated through the rmd, or how 

 comes it that the leaves were green ? I liave mounted 

 the specimen, which I shall keep as a curiosity. — 

 y, Taylor. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



G. F. Stutton. — If possible, we reply to queries sent us in 

 the following month, but many objects have to be sent to 

 specialists to name, and we have to wait their time. See the 

 column in the " Wesley an Naturalist." Get Stank's " fSritish 

 Mosses," coloured plates. 



M. P. — Get Thome's " Botany," published by Longman, 

 price A,s. dd., for details of structure, &c., and the vol. published 

 by the Christian Knowledge Society, "Flowers of the Field," 

 by Mr. Johns, for hgs. and descriptions of British plants. 



J. J. HoLSTEAD, AND OTHERS. — There ought to be no 

 difficulty in j'our getting Science-Gossip earlier now. We 

 are publishing it a week earlier this year than before. 



F. C. King. — Many thanks. We were promised to have a 

 continuation of the papers on "The Two Mirrors of the Micro- 

 scope," as soon as the author could find time. 



A Young Collector. — The specimen you sent is Geraniuvi 

 sylvaticiim. 



W. Sim. — Thanks for nice mounted specimen of insect, which 

 is Tingris crassiockari. See coloured plate in the number for 

 January, 1884. 



John Collins. — Your specimen appears to be a specimen of 

 Nostoc. 



Mr. C. Carus-Wilson, of Bournemouth, Hants, wishes 

 some correspondent to give him the address of the manufac- 

 turers of wool slag used for non-conducting purposes. 



To Correspondents and Exchangers. — As we now 

 publish Science-Gossip earlier than formerly, we cannot un- 

 dertake to insert in the following number any communications 

 which reach us later than the 8th of the previous month. 



To Anonymous Querists. — We must adhere to our rule of 

 not noticing queries which do not bear the writers' names. 



To Dealers and Others. — We are always glad to treat 

 dealers in natural history objects on the same fair and general 

 ground as amateurs, in so far as the " exchanges " offered are fair 

 exchanges. But it is evident that, when their offers are simply 

 Disguised Advertisembnts, for the purpose of evading the cost 

 of advertising, an advantage is taken o{ o\it gratuitous insertion 

 of " exchanges " which cannot be tolerated. 



We request that all exchanges may be signed with name (or 

 initials) and full address at the end. 



Special Note. — There is a tendency on the part of some 

 exchangers to send more than one per month. We only allow 

 this in the case of writers of papers. 



A. H. INIcBean. — The "locusts" mentioned as being the 

 food of John the Baptist, are usually regarded as the insects, 

 which are much eaten by the Arabs to this daj', and not the 

 bean pod which goe^ by this name. ' n 



Mr. Cecil C/\RUS-Wilson requires a meteorite, Eozooit 

 Canadcnse, platyscopic lens, geological diagrams or lantern 

 slides (photo), the "Year Book of Facts" for 1878, by James 

 Mason, the number of" The Atlantic INIonthly " containini; p. 657 

 (vol. xii.), and Nummulitic limestone. — Athlone, West Bourne- 

 mouth, Hants. 



Wanted, a geological hammer. Offered, micro-slides of 

 freshwater alga; (Batrachospermum, QEdogonium, Draparnaldia, 

 &c.), and fresh, unutoiuited and mounted, but not cleaned, 

 diatomaceee. Also numerous dried seeds and fruit.— Otto V. 

 Darbishire, Ball. Coll., Oxford. 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, teeth and bones of different animals; also any rock 

 specimens. Liberal exchange offered in first-class microscopic 

 slides. — .A. J. Doherty, 63 Burlington Street, Manchester. 



What offers for A. Naquet's " Principles of Chemistry," 

 W. Lee's "Acousics, Liyht and Heat," F. Guthrie's "Mag- 

 netism and Electricity,'' " The Mechanic's Friend," and Vols. i. 

 and ii. of " English Mechanic?" Micro accessories preferred. 

 — A. \V. Watson, i86 Downham Road, Islington, N. 



An herbarium, British and foreign, in exchange for books of 

 interest, or offers. — J. H. Lewis, F.L.S., 145 Windsor Street, 

 Liverpool Street. 



Wanted, fossils from London clay, gault and permian, in 

 exchange for good carboniferous limestone, coal measures, lias, 

 or chalk fossils. — Peter J. Huberts, 4 Shepherd Street, Bacup. 



FoK exchange. — Beck's small microtome, D'Anvert's " Ele- 

 mentary History of Art," M. C. Cooke's "Microscopic Fungi" 

 (coloured plates), Milne's "Earthquakes and other Earth 

 Movements," all new. Wanted. — Numbers of "Nature" (all 

 or any), Nov. and Dec. 1887 ; lantern slides to illustrate paper 

 on " Clouds and Rain ;" Lyell's "Elements of Geology " (state 

 edition), and the following of International Scientific Series: 

 "Volcanoes" (Judd) ; "Geological Hist, of Plants" (Dawson) ; 

 "Weather" (Abercromby) ; "Forms of Water" (Tyndall) ; 

 "Sociology" (Spencer); "The Sun" (Young). — F. Worgan, 

 34 Cedar Street, Derby. 



Offered, three microscopic fossil pearls, on slide. Wanted, 

 Argicpe cristcHula, capsula, Lima eltiptica, subauriculata, 

 Avicula hirundo, JModiolaria nigra, Lcpton sqjtajnosjtju, 

 Loripes divaricatus, Isocardia cor, Tellina balaustina, Lyoti- 

 sia Norvcgica, Tht-acia distorta, pubescens, Xearea 4 sp., 

 Saxicava Norvegica, Gastrochccna dubia, PJioladidea papy- 

 racea. Chiton scabridus, Trochiis Grmilaiidicus, occideiitalis, 

 lantkina rotundata, Buccinuin sinistrorsmii, Humphrey- 

 siaiutin, Buccinopsis Dalei, Fusus Xorvegicus, Turtoni, Isian- 

 dicus, Berniciensis. — J. Smith, Monkredding, Kilwinning. 



Wanted, odd numbers of Braithwaite's "Moss Flora," or 

 any British or foreign works on Hepaticae. Offered, stuffed or 

 live birds, birds' eggs, micro slides, &c. Have a large number 

 of stuffed birds for selection. — J. A. Wheldon, Chemist, York. 



Wanted, to exchange mosses and flowering plants for 

 others ; also land and freshwater shells for others. — J. A. 

 Wheldon, York. 



W.^NTED, Herbert Spencer's "Psychology," "Political 

 Institutions," " Ecclesiastical Institutions," " Descriptive 

 Sociology," and " Essays." Offered, dried flowering plants, 

 mosses (mostly in fruit), Lyell's "Principles of Geology," 

 Berkeley's " British Mosses," &c.— J. W. B., 56 Vine Street, 

 Liverpool. 



Conchology. — About 300 specimens of U. timiidus, U. pic- 

 torum, and A . cygttaa ; also a number of engravings of British 

 and Continental varieties of unios and anodons. Wanted, Con- 

 tinental unionidae, varieties of U. pictonim, or rare British 

 helices, or offers. — Geo. Roberts, Lofthouse, near Wakefield. 



Duplicates. — 6'. comeuin, var. scaldiaiia, P. fontiiiale, 

 var. henslowana, A. cygnea, var. incrassaia, P. contecta, P. 

 nantileus, P. glaber, P. dilatafus, P. albiis, P. kypnoruni, 

 V. pellucida, Z. glaber, Z. excavatus, var. vitriita, H. arbus- 

 torum, var. jiavescens, H. concinna, H. sericea, H. ericetoricjii, 

 vars. miliar and alba, P. umbilicata, var. curia, C. rugosa, 

 var. dubia, C. tridens, C. minivuim. Desiderata, — P. roseurn, 

 L. involnta, H. rcvelata, B. montanus, V. lillejeborgi, V. 

 jnouiinsiana, V. angustior, V. munitissima, A. lineata, and 

 many varieties. — Chas. Oldtiam, Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire. 



English land, marine and freshwater shells (named), in 

 exchange for foreign examples, birds' eggs, or medals. — F. 

 Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, British and foreign sponges, gorgonias, &c. ; frag- 

 ments taken. Also starches (genuine), large spines of echino- 

 dermata, holothuriae, parasite-, freshwater algs, wood sections, 

 polyzoa, micro-fungi, entomolot;ical and other unmounted 

 material. British land and freshwater shells, and unmounted 

 micro material in exchange.— Ernest O. Meyers, Richmond 

 House, Hounslow, W. 



Wanted, micro slides illustrating stages of potato disease 

 [Peronospora in/cstans). Good exchange offered in British 

 shells or other slides.— J. W. Cundall, Carrville, Redland, 

 Bristol. 



