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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Geography:" "New Monthly Magazine," circa 1820, 2 vols.; 

 G. P. K. James's "Atiila" and "Richelieu;" "Japan, Past 

 and Present;" Wolffs "Bokhara;" Staunton's "Embassy to 

 China;" bag-ter's 'Greek Testament;" large quantity of 

 maaa^ines a^id other books; capital collection of foreign 

 stamps; Steward's 21^. microscope; quantity of minerals, 

 rocks and fo-siU, S:c. — A. G. Hammond, 10 St. John's Hill, 

 New V\'andswonh, S.W. 



Offered, b ck numbers of Science-Gossip, and Fowler's 

 "British Coleoptera," part i., Adephaga-Hydrophilidae, nearly 

 new. 'Wanted British fos-ils from various formations. — A. E. 

 Bradley, 11 Bleisho Road, Lavender Hill, London, S.W. 



Offere , Science-Gossip from No. i to end of 1888. 

 Wanted, Beck's stsr microscope, with or without accessories. — 

 R. C. Pi ling. The Robi.i's Net, Blackburn. 



Twelve sections of w. od, six long and si.\ transverse, sent 

 in exchange for two micro slides — acari or pathological pre- 

 ferr-d. Also duplicates fjr exchange. — E. Mosely, 16 Robert- 

 son Street, Hastings. 



Will exchange mummy cloth, sacred ibis, or crocodile bones, 

 for mounted inspect dissections, nervous system preferred. — 

 Capt. S.. The Hollies, Brastcd, Kent. 



Offered, five bound vols, of Scienxe-Gossip, 1865-9, and 

 Cuvier's "Animal Kingdom," with over 200 well-coloured 

 plates (10 X 14 in.). Wanted, "Zoologist," before 1888. What 

 offers? — J. H. K., 18 Church Street, Commercial Street, K. 



Wanted, shells, fhiefly foreign, in exchange for choice 

 micro slides, anatonacal, parasites, diatoms, &c. — R. Suter, 

 5 Highueek Road, Tottenham. 



Will exchange 4 voU. (unbound) of "Amateur Work," illus- 

 trating almost any kind of handicraft, for works on geology.— 

 P. J. Roberts, 4 shepherd Street, Bacup. 



Offerfd, coliiranHrcoal. Wanted, avicula, acrodus, arcomya, 

 conus, cer.ttodus, eozoon, hipoopodium, hybodus, isocardia, 

 labjrinthodon, mitra, mega'odon, oliva, perna, platystoma, 

 ptychodus, sas, soa, unicrdium, vicarya, waldheimea, zellania, 

 &c. — J. Smith, Monkredding, Kilwinning. 



Wanted, Macgillivray's " British Birds," vol. iii. Offered, 

 the "Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club," 

 for the years 1870-73, in two volumes. — Apply to Dr. Fra^er, 

 Wolverhampton. 



Fredk. Glknnv, of The Orchard, Wisbech, wishes some 

 correspondent to give him the address where he can procure an 

 apparatus f r preservir g larvae, and the price. 



Wanted, S ience-Gossip for May, 1869 (No. 53). 'Varieties 

 of British shells offered, or Harting's " Rambles in Search of 

 Shells."— W. Web ter. Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



Wanted, a Valentin's knife ; will give a writing diamond 

 and some slides, or writ ng diamond and "Common Objects of 

 the Mirrosr-ope," ■>,!. dd. ed. — George T. Read, 87 Lordship 

 Road, Stoke Newingion, London, N. 



Good diatom n.icro slides in exchange for other diatom or 

 miscellaneous mounts, or clean material. — Rev. E. A. Hutton, 

 Mottram, Manchester. 



Duplicate ejigs. — Willow wren, long-eared owl, woodchat, 

 ke^trel, sparrow hawk, Idpwing, sandpiper, snipe, quail, moor- 

 hen, coot, carriun and hooded crows, swallow, sand-martin, 

 martin, tree pipit, black, Arctic, common, and lesser terns, 

 oh ffinch. bullfinch goldfinch, lesser redpoll, redstart, herring 

 gull, B. H. gull, guilemot, razorbill, blue, cole, marsh, long, 

 taded, and rre ted tits, green woodpecker, redshank, ptarmigan, 

 and many others. Desiderata. — Spotted woodpecker, plovers, 

 buntin, kittiw. ke, teal, widgeon, sheldrake, cormorant, shag, 

 stork and rock doves, ortolan, creeper, reed warbler, cuckoo, 

 dipper, nitihtjar, and others. Lists to — Arthur Hollis, Norton 

 Street. Grant am, Lines. 



Wanted, Newma.i's " Butterflies and Moths," also vols, of 

 " Entomologist," in exchange. — A. Nott, 75 Waterloo Road, 

 S.E. 



Wanted, in exchange for Ahn's " German Method " (new), 

 and " Grammaire dcs Grammaires " (nearly new), or fossils from 

 Silurian, trias, or carboni'erous formations. Professor Clifford's 

 " Common Sense of the Exact Sciences," or Sir John Lubbock's 

 "Ants, Bees, and Wa-ps," both in the International Scientific 

 Series. Pkacop^ caiidatus, from L. Ludlow, in exchange for 

 trdobites from other formations.— James Marsden, Carlisle 

 Street, Preston. 



What offers fur aqnarium or terrarium? It is also suitable 

 for fern ca-e well made of strong zinc throughout, outside 

 case to iuiiate ebony, lined with gold bead; size, 30 in. long, 

 22 in. deep, and 15 in. wide.— J. J. Edwards, 43 Calvert Road, 

 E. Greenwich. 



Wantrd, bees, wasps, sawflies, and other insects in spirit ; 

 micro slides in exchange.— Henry Ebbage, 344 Caledonian 

 Ro d. London. 



Will exchange sooty terns for sets of eggs of any of the 

 foilowinc siecie-: kestrel, sparrow hawk, goldcrest, stormy 

 petreK. night ars, dippers, golden plover, eider duck, pintail 

 ducu-, widgeon, raven, chough, common snipe, sandwich tern, 

 cimmon gull, and many other species.— Capt. 'Voung, Radwell, 

 Wcyn.onth. 



What offers in exchange for a Dutch specimen of the barn 

 owl, the first known to be got in Scotland'/ Can give date and 

 where it was found. W. Mathers, 16 Constitution Street, 

 Aberdeen, 



Offered, instantograph camera, odd numbers of Science- 

 Gossip, 200 moulds of great seals of England, thirty numbers 

 of Cassell s "Sea," &c. Wanted, impressions from ancient 

 seals, books a* out seals, ^nd British lepidoptera in any stage. — 

 Tunley, 131 Power court Road, Landport. 



What offers for herbaiium, nearly 1000 specimens, beauti- 

 fully preserved, many duplicates'?— I. K., 7 Castle Terrace, 

 Broughty Ferry. 



Wanted, transverse section of earth worm (lumbricus), and 

 redia and cercaria stages of liver duke (2?. kepaiicum). — Chas. 

 A. Whati'Ore. Much Marcle, Gloster. 



Wanted, Grant Allen on "Colour of Flowers," Strasburger's 

 "Practical Botany,' Hermann Muller's "Fertilization of 

 Flowers," or any good standard works on botany. — Chas. A. 

 Whatmore, Much Marcle, Gloucester. 



Wanted, foraminiferous material in exchange for other 

 material or good micro slides. Also many duplicate slides to 

 exchange for others. Send lists to — A. Earland, 3 Eton Grove, 

 Dacre Park, Lee, S.E. 



What offers for sixty micro slides of silurian and carbon- 

 iferous fos-ils, mourned and named. — Geo. E. East, jun., 

 241 Evering Road, Upper Clapton, N.E. 



Dui licatks — Sph. laciistre, P. cotitecta, glaber, dilataUis, 

 spirorbis and albta, L. irjtncainla and glabra, Z. glaber, 

 ^litidus and ftitiduliis, H, neiiwralts, /lortensis, arbtistormn , 

 sericea, pisana and caperata, B. obscurus, and C. tridens. 1 

 will give ail the above shells, or "Naturalists' World" for 

 1886 and 1887, unbound, for a few specimens of H. lamellaia 

 or Acme lineata. — Francis C. Long, 8 Cog Lane, Burnley, 

 Lanes. 



For six slides, I will send about forty varieties of animal 

 hairs, or will exchange for same number of unmounted objects. 

 — Arthur H. Williams, Hythe. 



What offers for "A Ride Across a Continent," 2 vols. 

 (Boyle); Page's "Camp and Cantonment," "Athens and the 

 Morea," "China in 1857-58," "Campaigns in Afghanistan," 

 "The Camicorn Mountains," "The Prairie Traveller," "Over 

 the Sea,'' "Grammaire des Grammaires," "Eton Latin Gram- 

 mar," " Children's Own French Book," " Boy's Own Paper " 

 (vol. X.), Otto's " (Jerman Grammar," also Roger's fret-saw 

 machine, and fretworkcd articles? — A. Ellis, Hull Road, Cot- 

 tiukiha I , Hull, 'Vorks. 



For exchange, duplicate well-mounted slides of foraminifer.-* 

 from sponge-s.ind, for bridiant scaled, unmounted, exofc 

 curculio^, in good condition. — Edward H. Robertson, Wood • 

 vjlle. Greenhouse Lane, Sheepscombe, near Stroud, Gloster. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"A Dictionary of Photography for the Amateur and Pro- 

 fessional Photographer," by E. J. Wall (London: Hazell, 

 Watson & Viney, Ld.). — "Transactions of Nottingham Natu- 

 ralists' Society." — " The Naturalist in Siluria," by Capt. Maine 

 Reid (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.). — " Vannin Sivar," 

 published by the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society. — "The Annals and Magazine of Natural History." — 

 "The G.^rden." — "The Athensum." — " The Gardener's 

 Chronicle." — "The Asclepiad." — " Journal of the Royal Micro - 

 scopical Society." — "lieological INIagazine." — "Research." — 

 "The Be^t Forage Plants," by Dr. F. G. Stebler and Dr. 

 Schroter, translate 1 by A. McAlpine (London: David Nutt). — 

 "TheCruibeof the Marchesa to Kamschatkaand New Guinea," 

 by F. H. h. Guillemard (London: John Murray, 1889). — 

 "The Entomologist." — " Cryptogamic Botany," by A. W. 

 Bennett, M.A., B.Sc , F.L.S., and George Murray, F.L.S. 

 (London: Longmans, Green & Co.)— " Knowledge." — "Biblio- 

 graphy of the Geology and Palaeontology of the North of 

 England." — " The Century Magazine."— "The Amateur Photo- 

 grapher."— " The Garner."— " The Naturalist."— Cassell's 

 "Technical Educator." — " The Botanical Gazette." — " Bel- 

 gravia." — "The Gentleman's Magazine." — " American Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal."— " Wesley Naturalist,"— "The Mid- 

 land Naturalist." — " Feuilles des Jeunes Naturalistes." — "The 

 American Naturalist," &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 14TH ult. from : 



E. H. R.— D. W. B.— E. G.— A. V.— W. W.— F. W. S.— C. P. 

 _A. W.— J. W. D. K.-W. S. G.— R. C. P.— E. M.— C. E. L. 

 — R. P.— A. P. C.-W. B. B.— T. D. A. C. (2).— J. T. H.— 



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



B. p. -J. I— R. M.— B. T.— R. T. B.— A. M.— P. H. M.— 



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

 Miss N.— J. A. F.— W. M.— J. E. L.— F. H. P.— A. W. H.— 

 A. S. H. - Dr. B.- P. J. R.— J. S.— A. E. B.- A. J. H. C— 

 J. G.- J. T.— K. B— J. M.— R. S.— W. F. J.— E. A, H.— 

 F. C. L.— G. E E.-T. S.-A. E.— J. K.— S. G.— A. G. H.— 

 C. A. W.— W. M.— T. D. A. C— J. C— W. H. S.-Capt. Y. 

 — H. E.— H. \V. M.— J. J. E.-A. W. N.— S. H.— A. H. W.. 

 — E. H. R.-J. P. G.— A. T.— A. E.— B. H. W.-A. H. S.,. 

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