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HA RD WICKE'S SCIENCE- G OS SIP. 



Joseph Clark, F.R.M.S., Hind Hayes Street, Somerset, 



England. 



Wanteo. a secondhand microscope. Will give "Journal of 

 the Royal Geographical Society" (1877I, "Proceedings of the 

 Royal Geographical Society" (1879), &c. Particulars to — 

 Geo. Parish, 124 Kingston Road, Oxford. 



Offered, Unio margariti/ef in quantities if desired. 



Wanted, land, freshwater and marine shells, minerals or fossils. 

 James Simpson, 51 Lock Street, Aberdeen, N.B. 



Will oologists who are forming collections of both British 

 and foreign birds' eggs kindly send lists of duplicates and 

 desiderata to me. I have many desirable species, side-blown 

 with full data, in duplicate. Foreign correspondence cordially 

 invited. — H. B. Booth, Parkfield Terrace, Frizinghall, Shipley, 

 Yorkshire. . 



Wanted, foraminiferous material in exchange for good micro 

 slides of foraminifera. — W. G. Hutchinson, Church Bank, 

 Bolton. 



Wanted, mammalian remains, also fossils from lower London 

 tertiary beds, in exchange for other fossils, rock specimens, &c. 

 Send lists ; also a good geological cabinet. Send nieasure- 

 uients. Geo. E. East, jun., 10 Basinghall Street, London, E.G. 



Wanted, insects and entomolodical apparaius, in exchange 

 for ova dispar, birds' eggs, including buzzard, snipe, curlew 

 and others, coins, and small vertical engine. — J. H. Duckworth, 

 3 Mount Street, Blackburn. 



Clausilia riigosa. Lymnea peregra, L. truncatiela, Physa 

 hypnorwn, Planorbis corneus, P. glaber, P. sfiirorbis, and 

 Valvata piscinalis, in exchange for natural history objects and 

 curiosities. — Robert Walton, 44 Canning Street, Burnlej', Lan- 

 cashire. 



Offered, twenty slides of carboniferous microzoa. Wanted, 

 Woodward's " Manual of the Mollusca." — J. Smith, l\Ionk- 

 redding, Kilwinning. 



Wanted, parasites from mammals or birds, or any other 

 kind. Will give insects, birds' eggs, land and freshwater or 

 marine shells, or other micro objects in return. — S. L. Mosley, 

 Beaumont Park Museum, Huddersfield. 



Wanted, good foreign stamps, in exchange for vols, of 

 SciENCE-Gossii', British shells, or other stamps. — A. G. A., 

 I South Villas, Kensington Road, Redland, Bristol. 



A SERIES of British marine mollusca, mounted and named, 

 ■with localities (for reference purposes), on small tablets, offered 

 for a series of named species of the British pjlyzoa, hydrozoa, 

 spongida, and entomostraca. — B. Sturges Dodd, 67 Beech 

 Avenue, New Basford, Nottingham. 



Wanted, seaweeds, fresh or dried, especially specimens of 

 Padina pavonia, Zonaria collaris. Taenia atomaria. Good 

 exchanges in micro slides, marine algae, micro fungi, &c. — 

 H. Hawkes, 300 Bridge Street, West Birmingham. 



Wanted, Hooker's " Student's Flora," also Babington's 

 and other standard botanical works. — J. H. King, The In- 

 firmary, Southampton. 



For exchange. — Helix iiiajitscula, H. I\Iacgregori, H. 

 Mackenzii, H. Lonisiadcnsis, H. Xanthochcila, Bulimus de 

 Burghiie, B. fipei-aius, and few species of streptaxis, bithynia, 

 hydrobia, pupina, hylocystis, &c. Desiderata, recent land, 

 freshwater or marine shells not in collection, or fossils from the 

 miocene of the Continent. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, 

 Twickenham. 



Productus semiretiadatus given in exchange for any other 

 species ; or Spirt/era striaius and S. glabra given in exchange 

 for any other species of spirifera, or a Terebratula hastata, — 

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



Wanted, good butterdy net and setiing boards in exchange 

 for "Animal Life," &c. — W. J. Weston, Beckley, Sussex. 



Ananchytes ovatiis (in any quantity), belemnites, micraster, 

 galerites from chalk, also marine, land and freshwater shells, in 

 exchange for fossils from any formation, foreign echini, and 

 starfish, or native weapons.— F. Stanley, Margate, Kent. 



Offered. — Ross's F eye-piece, Collins' i-in. objective, first- 

 f:lass lens, and 12 parts "Postal Micro, [ournal " (1882-85). 

 Wanted, F. W. Leidy's |'Rhizopods," F. W. Allman's "Poly- 

 zoa," and Smith's "British Diatoms," vol. 2. — J. E. Lord, 

 i6 Mount Terrace, Rawtenstall. 



Duplicates. — R. rhavmi, C. ednsa, V. nrtico', V. io, P. 

 atalanta, P. cardui, A. cardatnines (male), A. caja, B. 

 gitcrcus, also a few specimens Trichiosotna Incorum (bred). 

 Desiderata, British lepidoptera, coleoptera, and shells not in 

 collection, also foreign stamps. — Mrs. Smith, Jessamine Cottage, 

 Lower Shapter Street, Topsham, Devon. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 18/2 (unbound), clean, but 

 without covers. Wanted, Ordnance map of Kent. — E. H., 

 22 Whitstable Road, Canterbury. 



Anne Pratt's " Flowering Plants and Ferns." Vol. i. of 

 this splendid work, containing full description and 212 coloured 

 illustrations of British plants, gilt edges, and Glossary of 

 Botanical Terms; will exchange the above vol. for a small 

 printing press with type, &c., or offers. — J. B. Beckett, Trinity 

 PLice, Friar's Lane, Great Yarmouth. 



Lepidoptera. — Duplicates : lo, .S'. lingnstri (i), tipuliformis, 

 .sambucata, tiliaria, iota, phragmitidis, crocealis, chrysitis, 

 Jariciana, occultana, umbratica, ruberata (2), inquinatellus. — 

 George Balding, Ruby Street, Wisbech. 



Wanted, a secondhand Merrin's " Lepidopterist's Calendar," 



in good condition, cheap. — George B.lding, Ruby Street, 

 Wisbech. 



Twelve sections of wood, six long and six transverse, sent 

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

 ferred. Also duplicates for exchange. — E. Mosley, 36 Robert- 

 son Street, Hastings. 



Wanted, Ross's best i, ij, or 2-inch object glass, with 

 liberkuhn. State requirements. — Joseph Wray, Everton Brow, 

 Liverpool. 



First-class micro mounts for selected diatoms, forams, sea- 

 weeds or books. — J. H. Lewis, 145 Windsor Street, Liverpool. S. 



Specimens of the ordeal bean of Old Calabar, on receipt of 

 stamped directed envelope. — Tunley, Powerscourt Road, Land- 

 port. 



W.\nted, conchological specimens and books, also natu- 

 ralistic magazines, in exchange for choice micro slides, para- 

 sites, diatoms, double-stained botanical, &c. — R. Suter, 5 High- 

 week Road, Tottenham. 



Violin wanted, in exchange for first quality micro slide--, 

 consisting of anatomical, pathological, and botanical subjects, 

 injections from monkey, rabbit, cat, &c., or good French 

 triplet. Will give a good exchange in microscopic slides, for a 

 few good pullets. 



Twenty miscellaneous micro slides, well mounted, small 

 telescope, three specimens silver ore from American mines. 

 Would exchange lot for two first issue Jubilee sixpences. — 

 W. Mathie, 10 Queen Mary Avenue, Crossbill, Glasgow. 



Small white marble statue of Venus, a beautiful work of art 

 from Rome, bought in Glasgow Exhibition. Would exchange 

 for Jubilee first issue sixpences. What offers ? — W. Mathie, 

 10 Queen Mary Avenue, Crossbill, Glasgow. 



Offered, seven varieties of spicules from decomposed lime- 

 stone, all named and unmounted, also spherulite and Pyroxene 

 andesitc, which makes lovely micro sections, in exchange for 

 slides of diatomaces and rock. Also the following object^, 

 which, when mounted, make beautiful slides for the micro: 

 rolled lentic.dina, club-shaped spirolina, trochus-shape rotulites, 

 Polystomella crispa, orbulites, Placetttida asteHsans, num- 

 mulites, various echmi spines, minute corals and shells, very 

 perfect and rare sorts, in exchange for Liitraria obloiiga, 

 Lyonsia NoTuegica, Diodonta fyagilis, Donax polilus, Jso- 

 cardia cor, Diplodonta rotiinduta, Area tetragona, Avicula 

 iarentina, A. hirundo. Pinna rudis, Pectcn nivea. — A. J. R. 

 Sclater, M.C.S., Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Unmounted specimens (in glj'cerine) of the peculiar her- 

 maphrodite nemaiode parasite, Angiostoinuni nigrovenosnin 

 {.'=■ Ascaris O'C Leptodera nigrovenosa), ixom. the limg of rana, 

 in exchange. AUo a few unmounted specimens in the same 

 medium ol the trematode parasite, Polystoinutn iniegerrimiun, 

 from the bladder of rana. Wanted, well-mounted slides of 

 proglottis of taenia, showing internal structure ; cross section 

 of earth-worm, showing typhlosole ; amphioxus, whole ; or any 

 well-mounted and good histological (not human) or pathological 

 (human) slides, or good type specimens of the following, with 

 localities : Acme lineata. Helix lamellata, H. obvoluta, H. 

 revelata. Vertigo lilljeborgi, V. 7nonlinsiana, V. alpestris, 

 V. substriata, V. pusilla, V. tumida, V. ajigustior, Linincea 

 glutinosa, L. involuta, Succinea virescens, S. oblonga, Hyalina 

 (lonites) pura, H. radiatula, H. excavata, Testacella halio- 

 tidea (shell), /. scutubim (shell), or mounted and good .'lides of 

 the following crystals : haemoglobin, haematin, urea, oxalate of 

 urea, uric acid, kreatinin, oxalate of lime, hippuric acid, 

 ammonio-magnesic phosphate, leucin, tyrosin, inosite, cystin. — 

 J. W. Williams, .Mitton, Stourport, Worcestershire. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" The Probable Cause of the Displacement of Beach Lines " 

 (second additional note) by A. Blytt. — "Nineteenth Annual 

 Report of the Wellington College Natural Science Society." — 

 "I'he Microscope." — "British Dogs," Nos. 27, 28, 29. — 

 " Gardeners' Chronicle." — "The Century Magazine." — " Cosmic 

 Evolution," by E. A. Ridsdale (London: H. K. Lewis, 136, 

 Gower Street, W.C.) — "Canadian Entomologist." — "Wesley 

 Naturalist." — " On the Anatomy and Life History of ISIoUusca 

 Peculiar to Australia," by Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. — "The Selbourne Magazine." — "The Entomologist." 

 —"The Century." — "Book Chat."— "Feuilles du Jeune 

 Naturaliste." — " Journal of Microscopy." — " Greeley." — 

 "Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club," &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the i2Th ult. from: 

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

 — C. W. F.— A C S.— P. F. T.— C. B. L.— W. W. R.— J. E. B. 

 — F. B.— C. F. G.— W. E. W.— J. W. W.— R. C. C— A. F. T. 

 — H. P. M.— J. B. Y.— E. L.— J. A.— G. R.— J. R. B. M.— 

 W. G. H.— J. S.— J. C— G. P.— T. P.— J. W. W.-J. W.— 

 C. H. H. W.— J. F. H.— T. S.— J. H. D.— G. E. E.-W. G. H. 

 — H. B. B.— Miss L.— H.S. D.— A. G. A.— J. H. K.— D. I'..— 

 J. T. I. -J. E. L.— H. H.— F. S.-A. D.— F. C— P. J. R-- 

 L. J. "S.-F. W. G.-E. H. R.— H. V.-A. J. R. S.— W. M. 

 — W. H. T.— E. M.— R. S.— J. H. L.— M. F. D.— G. E.— 

 J. w. W.— J. A. S.— E. H.— W. S. S.-J. B. & Co.-J. W.— 

 C. H. B.— &c. &c. 



