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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Gentiatta ^neuiiionaiithe, Drosera intermedia, and other 

 Strensall plants likely to be lost, in exchange for others.— J. A. 

 Wheldon, Yoik. 



British and Exotic lepidoptera in fine condition, and well 

 set in four cases, cjrked, glazed, and stained imitation ma- 

 hogany (new). Would form very pretty showcases, or ex- 

 cellent start for collection. What offers ?— Joseph Anderson, 

 jun.. Aire Villa, Chichester. 



Rare British lepidoptera in exchange for pupje and good 

 foreign postage stamps.— Joseph Anderson, jun.. Aire Villa, 

 Chichester. 



Could any reader supply me with one good specimen of any 

 of the following? — Turrilites eatenaius, Hamites attcmmtus, 

 Cystidian, Megalodon, Uitia Valdensis, Nautilus centralis, 

 Oldhamia ratiiata, O. antiqua. I will give four good speci- 

 mens from Carboniferous, including Liiigulella equamiformis 

 (rare), for each of them.— P. J. Roberts, 4 Shepherd Street, 

 Bacup, Lane. 



Wanted, a secondhand silver watch, to present to a youth, 

 in exchange for rare British shells or rare microscopic objects. 

 A good exchange guaranteed. — Thomas E. Sclater, Bank 

 Street, Teignmouth. 



Offered, clutches of chough, g. eagle, peregrine, kestrel, 

 s. hawk, dipper, stonechat, grasshopper and rufous warblers, 

 goldcrest, coal tit, rock pipit, cirt, corn and reed buntings, 

 twite, bullfinch, kingfisher, nightjar, rock dove, capercailhe, 

 g plover, oyster-catcher, c sandpiper, heron, water-rail, m. 

 swan, cormorant, shag, kittiwake, hg. gull ; eggs of chough, 

 pine grosbeak, dotterel, ringed guillemot, razor-bill, gannet, 

 sooty tern, m. shearwater, s. petrel ; nests with several. Please 

 describe clutches offered in exchange for the above.— R. J. 

 Ussher, Cappagh, Lismore, Ireland, 



Foreign land and freshwater and British marine shells 

 wanted. Does not matter if they are not named, 10 long as 

 the locality is accurately given. British land and freshwater 

 shells given in exchange.— J. W. Williams, 35 Mitton, Stour- 

 port, Worcestershire. 



Wanted, all or any of the following ^^\%:— Lyonsia 

 Norvegica, Lima hians, Diodotita fragilis, Lucitia locuma, 

 Avicula hirundo, Isocardia cor, Scalaria Turtoni, S. Grcen- 

 latidica, Hippothyris psittacea, Terebratulacraniian, latithina 

 exigtia, I. pallida, Triton cuiaceus, T. nodiferus, T. Dalei, 

 Fusus Turtoni, F. Norvegicus, F- Berniciensis, Spiritla Peronii, 

 Trochus granulatus, Pkoladidea papyracea, Pecten niveus, 

 Solecurtus coarctntus, Xylophaga dorsalis, Clio pyrainidata. 

 Pinna pectinata, iModiola barbata, Mactra helvacea (Glauca), 

 in exchange for other rare British shells. Mutual exchange.— 

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



For exchange, fine well-cleaned mountain limestone fossils, 

 many species. Wanted, fossils from all formations. — Robert 

 Allen, 66 Manchester Road, Mossley, near Manchester. 



Stained botanical preparations, mounted or unmounted, 

 insect, and diatom mounts, offered for good water-colour 

 drawings.— W. White, Litcham, Swaffham. 



Wanted, naturalistic specimens of all kinds, in exchange 

 for choice microscopic slides, anatomical, parasites, double- 

 stained botanical, diatoms, &c.— R. Suter, 5 Highweek Road, 

 Tottenham, London. 



Offered, British plants for herbarium. Wanted other 

 duplicates.— James Simpson, 51 Loch Street, Aberdeen, N.B. 



Exchange. — Good -^-inch objective, &c., offered for ^-inch 

 or Jjj-inch.— Chas. A. Whatmore, Much Marcle, Gloucester. 



Wanted, odd numbers of "Annals of Botany," Bentham's 

 " Flora," or any other good work on botany ; also works 

 on freshwater algae.— Chas. A. Whatmore, Much Marcle, 

 Gloucester. 



For exchange, "Entomologist" for 188S, and Science- 

 Gossip for 1887-8, all unbound, but clean. Wanted, vols. i. 

 and iv. of "Boys' Own Paper," foreign stamps, or autographs. 

 — R. H. Lawton, c/o Mrs. Guldstraw, 192 EUod Street, Pendle- 

 ton, near Manchester. 



Science-Gossip, 1867-1874, eight vols, bound in four; also 

 1887-89, unbound; Klein's "Elements of Histology;" Blain- 

 ville's "Organisation des Animaux ;" Isaac Lea's "Observa- 

 tions on the Unioida;" (coloured plates) ; Flower's "Osteology." 

 Offers to — W. E. Collinge, 41 Springfield Place, Leeds. 



Fine specimens of Vertigo pusilla, Zonites fulvus, and 

 Helix aculeata, in exchange for Vertigo angnstior and V. 

 vtinutissima. — R. Sianden, 40 Palmerston Street, IMoss Side, 

 Manchester. 



What offers for Science-Gossip for 1875-S8, 1875 and 1878 

 bound in two volumes, half calf, all in first-class condition? 

 Microscope preferred. — R. G., 8 Cambridge Avenue, Pilrig, 

 Leith. 



Science-Gossip for 1887-8, unbound, also a small microscope. 

 Exchange requested in exotic shells. — \V. J. Jones, jun., 

 27 Mayton Street, Holloway. London, N. 



Wanted, common fussils from any formation ; fine fossils 

 from the eocene beds of Hampshire offered in exchange. — 

 E. Walker, B.Sc, 37 Chichester Road, Portsmouth. 



What offers (apparatus, &c.) for three dozen well-mounted 

 slides, physiological (some injected), botanical, &c. ; also 

 several sets of three slides from " Cat Embryo," showing 

 development of bone, hair, &c. — Ferdinand Tomlins, High 

 Street, Gosport. 



Wanted, anemones, mollusca, and other marine animals, 

 suitable for aquarium ; will give micro-slides, nat. hist, books, 

 &c., in exchange. — J. E. Lord, Rawtenstall. 



" Lord Bury " telescope, with pancratic tube and leather 

 case and strap, in good condition. What offers? — J. E. Lord, 

 Rawtenstall. 



British sand grouse, well preserved. What offers? — Geo. 

 Sim, Gourdas, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. 



Well-mounted micro-slides offered for Figuier's "Insect" 

 or "Ocean World," Wood's "Insects at Home" or "Insects 

 Abroad." — W. Sim, Gourdas, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. 



Offers wanted for Stephen's "Catalogue of British Insects," 

 and Kirby's "European Butterflies and Moths" (last edition, 

 in parts, complete). — J. B. Mayor, The Beeches, Grange 

 Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester. 



Offered, serpentines of various colours, columnar coal, 

 cone in cone ironstone, pitchstone (ordinary, banded, and 

 spherulitic), sapponite, yorbaneite, &c. ; also carboniferous 

 fossils in exchange for minerals and rocks, many common. 



Ethnographical and other curios wanted ; will send return 

 list. — Archibald Hy. McBean, S. Denys, Southampton. 



Wanted, twenty mature living H. potnatia. Offered, six 

 V. pusilla, or darts of H. arhustorum mounted in tube. The 

 shells of H. poinatia will be returned if desired. — Chas. 

 Oldham, Ashton-on-Mersey. 



Wanted, dragonflies (Odonata) from all parts of the world. 

 State desiderata in return. — Philip P. Calvert, Ent. Section, 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 19th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. 



Wanted, microtome, injecting syringe, and microscopic 

 accessories, secondhand. Good exchange given. — O. T. E., 

 hielgrave, Leicester. 



Wanted, exchange in good side-blown birds' eggs with 

 collectors having side-blown eggs to offer. — \. James, Bingham, 

 Notts. 



Wanted, cuckoos' eggs from the following nests: — Red 

 warbler, garden warbler, sedge warbler, wren, greenfinch, &c. ; 

 go.d eggs offered in exchange. — V/. Wells Bladen, Stone, 

 Staffordshire. 



Herb.\rium. — Offered (all British), L. C., 3rd ed. : — 3,3615, 

 43, 182, 237, 256, 291C, 322, 342, 353, 415, 443, 495, 574, 576, 

 620, 621, 626, 783, 974, 978, 981, 1070, 1255, 12871^, 1302, 1331, 

 135s. 1365. 1367. 1424. 14^2. i4'3- i5>o. 15S8, 1577, 1658, 1669, 

 1606. — E. C. Robinson, 46 Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire. 



BOOKS. ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Picture-Making by Photography," by H. P. Robinson 

 (London: Hazell, Watson & Viney). — " Metamorphism of 

 Rocks," by A. Irving (London: Longmans, Green & Co.). — 

 "Electric Light for the Million," by A. F. Guy (London: 

 Simpkin, Marshall & Co.). — " Our Common Garden Snails and 

 their Variations," by E. D. Marquand. — " Report and Trans- 

 actions of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society." — " Observations made at the Blue Hill Meteorological 

 Observatory, Mass., U. S. A." — " Photographic Determination 

 of the Brightness of the Stars," and "Tne Henry Draper 

 Memorial" (Cambridge, U.S.A. : John Wilson & Son). — 

 " A I." — " Health." — " The Lyceum." — "Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist." — "Insect Life." — "Journal and Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society of New South Wales." — "Longman's Maga- 

 zine." — "Journal and Annual Report of the City of London 

 College Science Society." — "Proceedings of the Bristol 

 Naturalist's Society." — "Research." — Knowledge." — "The 

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

 Garner." — "Tlie Naturalist." — "The Botanical Gazette." — 

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

 Monthly Microscopical Journal." — "Wesley Naturalist." — 

 "The Midland Naturalist." — " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 

 — "The American Naturalist." — "The Microscope." — "The 

 Entomologist." — "Book Chat." — "Journal of the Quekett 

 Microscopical Club.' — Cassell's "Technical Educator," &c. &c. 



Communications received t;p to the 13TH ult. from : 

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A. H. S — E. J. B.— S. D.— E. V. P.- H. N. H.— C. H.— A. J. 

 —J. W. S.— A. L — H. U.— J. P. N.— H. J. S.— W. H. W.— 

 W. J.-H. M. J. U.— J. W. W.— J. A. W.— R. S.— J. S.— 



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

 P. -J. N.— R. J. U.— T. D. A. C— G. S— W. S.— F. T.— 



C. A. W.— R. P.— E. W.— E. de C— R. A.— R. H. L.— -M. J. 

 —J. B. M.— i\I. B. M.— Mrs. P.— R. S.— J. T. B.— R. G.- 

 W. E. C— W. W.— T. E. G.-T. G. B.— T. S. A.— S. A. S.— 

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

 M. M.— J. T. B.— J. H.— W. T,— G. W. R.— Dr, E. C. de C. 

 — C. C. W.— W. H. W.— H. M. J. U.— A. P., S:c. &c. 



