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HARDWICKE'S SCIEN CE-GO SSIP. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



J. Reeve.— The variety of Daisy sent is that known as 

 proliferous. It is figured in Science-Gossip for J 865, 

 page 182. 



E. Ward. — We are most willing' to oblige you in your 

 difficulty, but nothing was said about namine; the insects. 



T. W.— We are sorry we cannot comply with your request, 

 as we are obliged to adhere to our rule of not answering 

 anonymous queries or communications. 



W. L. W. E.— Your box and note arrived, but the Lycosa 

 was non est inventus. 



T. R.— Your specimen is an immature variety of the 

 Bladder- fern (Cyslopteris frugilis). 



J. W. G.— Mr. Highley's paper is not to be obtained. See 

 " Half-Hours by the Seaside." London : Hardwicke. 



W. S., JuN.— The supposed fungus is a common lichen 

 called Cladonia. 



W. R.— Your query appeared in the August number of 

 Science-Gossip, but has not been answered. Bird-stuffers 

 keep the mode of cleaning feathers a professional secret. 



A. E. Murray. — No duck-weeds were enclosed in your 

 communication. Please send your proposed sketch to us. 



E. T. S.— Your Hawthorn bushes have been the usual 

 White Hawthorn, with grafts of the pink variety. The 

 natural shoots ought to have been cut away as they started, 

 but they have been allowed to grow, and the foreign grafts 

 are either smothered or starved. Graft again, and watch 

 better.— J. C. 



I. W.— Mosses: 1. Bryum capillare ; 2. Grimmia apocarpa ; 

 3. Orthotrichum saxiitile. — R. B. 



C. P.— The "nest" is composed of the cocoons of a colony 

 of small Ichneumons, probably of the genus Microgaster. 

 The larvse, after feeding within the body of some unfortunate 

 moth larva, and destroying it, spun up side by side upon the 

 blade of grass, and produced the small flies. 



A. Smyth.— The specimen is not a grass, but a rush, called 

 Wood-rush {Luxiila cumpestris). 



H. CoRRiE.— A rush Uuncits glaticus). 



A. A.— The plant is Alisma nutans. 



F. W.— Please send other specimens. 



S. A. B.— I. The specimen sent is the Bird's-nest Moss 

 (Nidularia). 2. It is not our rule to return specimens 

 unless they are valuable, or some special scientific interest is 

 attached to them. 



Dr. J. P. H. B.— (A bundle of mistakes in last month's 

 answer.) -For Barth. read Benth.; Grisebach for Griesbach; 

 and Vernnnia for Veronica. 



M. D. Beresford.— Owing to the balsam used for mount- 

 ing being soft, the pressure of the slides on each other in 

 transit squeezed it out between the cover and the slides, and 

 carried the diatoms along with it. Hence we can only name 

 one. That with the ink memorandum on it contains Bac- 

 teriastrum variuns of Lauder, B. anivalvum and B. furcatum 

 of Thadbolt. 



Chas. J. BRAnBURY.— The parasite on tortoise has lost its 

 head, and so prevents its specific recognition. It is an 

 Ixodes— XhsX is all we can make out, on account of its being 

 without its ordinary accompaniment. 



J- H .—Yon had better apply to Professor Wyville-Thomson, 

 Edinburgh, who is to have scientific charge of the expe- 

 dition. 



J. E.G.— Mosses : I. Hypnum striatum ; 2. H.molluscum; 

 3. H. cupressifurme ; 4. H.fluitans; 5. Neckera pumila.— 

 R. B. 



E. C. L.— Your article will appear in due course. 



J. H. G.— Thanks for your suggestion about a Naturalist's 

 Calendar. It had already been considered by us, but it is too 

 late this year. We shall see what another will bring forth. 



Senex.— You will find the text of the Wild Fowl Protection 

 Act, giving all details, and enumerating the birds, in the last 

 number of the Zoologist. It is much too long even for us to 

 give an abstract here. 



Answers deferred. — M. T. — R. W.— T. G J W 



E. T. S.— E. C. J., &c. 



EXCHANGES. 



For fragment of Vesicularia spinosa send stamped directed 

 envelope to P. Smith, Legh Street, Warrington. 



For Erysiphe Martii and Trichohasis senecinnis send 

 stamped envelope to Isaac Wheatley, Mailing Street, Lewes. 

 Any microscopical object acceptable. 



Livi.vo specimens of the Ringed Snake (Natrix torquatn) 

 and of the Blindworm (Anguis frugilis). State what required 

 for them.— Address, A. B. C, Post Office, Five Ways, Bir- 

 mingham. 



C. MoscHATus offered for other Coleoptera. Longicnrnes 

 preferred.- E. C. Lefroy, 2, Granville Place, Blackheath, S.E. 



For seed-pod of Lunaria biennis (unmounted) send stamped 

 envelope and object to A. H. Cartwright, 1, Brickwood Villas 

 Croydon. ' 



Fossil Diatomaceae, Ebstorff, Hanover, or OrbitoUtes corn- 

 planutus, both well mounted, for other slides. Names 

 required.— H. B. Thomas, 13, Market-place, Boston. 



Larva of Ant Lion, alive, in exchange for well -mounted 

 entomological slides. Send list.— J. A. Graham, Stone Lodge, 

 St. John's Road, New Cross. 



Growing plants of Ophioglossum vulgatum, Polypndlum 

 vulgare, Scolupendrium vulgare, Ike, for Birds' Eggs or larva 

 of Lepidoptera.— S. L. Mosley, Almondbury Bank, Hudders- 

 field. 



For Peristomes of Moss {Hypnum rutahulum) send stamped 

 and directed envelope to Jno. H. Martin, 86, Week Street, 

 Maidstone. 



Wanted Spiracles and Trachere mounted. Good named 

 slides given in exchange.— E. Lovett, Holly Mount, Croydon. 



Lovely Adriatic Seaweeds and Dalmatian Flowering Plants 

 named, also Mexican and Panama, choice, for microscopic 

 slides.— N., 20, Maryland Road, Harrow Road, W. 



Eggs of Spotted Flycatcher, Sedge Warbler, Meadow 

 Pipit, Moor-hen, Common Guillemot, in exchange for others. 

 — C. Bankart, Narbro', near Leicester. 



Silkworms' Eggs in exchange for good microscopic ob- 

 jects.— Address, W. Brigg,Jun., Cliff Road, Leeds, Yorkshire. 



Parasites wanted, other microscopic objects in exchange. 

 — T. W. Cowan, Horsham. 



Scales of Exoccet us volitnns on receipt of stamped directed 

 envelope. Any object of interest acceptable. — John M. 

 Campbell, Bruce Buildings, 6, Carrick Street, Glasgow. 



Mosses from Scotland for other mosses, or for Lichens. — 

 T. H., Highfield, Sydenham Hill, London. 



Scales and pieces of skin of Ceylon Snakes for mounted 

 objects.— A. C. Haddon, 2, Pelham Villas, New Wimbledon. 



Good British Lepidoptera in exchange for a few Foreign 

 Butterflies or Beetles.— C. R. Doward, 28, Pitmaston Road, 

 St. John's, Worcester. 



British Lepidoptera in exchange for British or Foreign, 

 or microscopic slides.— Joseph Anderson, Jun., Alresford. 



Spiracles of Privet Caterpillar, Larva of Cockchafer and 

 Blowfly, well mounted, for other good mounted objects. — 

 J. Ford, Stamford. 



LoN. Cat. Brit. Plants, Nos. 2;;'*, 278* 2856, 776, 106li, 

 10856, 1184, 1188, &c., offered for 110, 12Q, I69, 289, 290, 650, 

 651, 1185, &c.— W. H. Beeby, 41, North End, Croydon. 



One of Wheeler's 2ls. Pocket Microscopes, s.J inches long, 

 :J-inch diameter. It has Huyghenian eye-piece, ^-inch French 

 achromatic triplet, and glass stage for objects. Good field 

 and clear definition, and magnifying power of 100 diameters. 

 For one of Browning's Miniature 20s. Spectroscopes.— S. 

 Gillson, Mountsorrel, Loughborough. 



Sticta aurata offered in exchange for other Lichens. — 

 Address, R. V, T., Withiel, Bodmin, Cornwall. 



Wanted a few roots of Ceterach officinarum and others. 

 Derbyshire ferns given in exchange.— Thos. Shipton, Jun., 

 12, High Street, Chesterfield. 



Alchemilla conjuncta. Flowering-stem and two root- 

 leaves of this almost rarest of British plants. Found in 

 Cumberland some years ago, and preserved in a garden. I 

 want Arenuriii Ntirvegica, Inula sutirina, or Simethis bicolor. 

 — R. Wood, Vicarage, Westward, Wigton. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



" American Naturalist," fnr August. 



" Canadian Entomologist," for August. 



" Notes on Chalcidise." Part VII. By Francis Walker, 

 F.L.S. London: Janson. 



" Our Blood Relations." Simpkin, Marshall, St Co. 



" The Flora of Liverpool." Published by the Liverpool 

 Naturalists' Field Club. 



"Half-Hours at the Seaside." By J. E. Taylor, F.G.S. 

 London : Hardwicke. 



" Smithsonian Report for IS70." Washington, Government 

 Printing Office, 1871. 



" Department of Agriculture Report, I870." Washington. 



"Monthly Reports of the Department of Agriculture for 

 1871." Washington. 



" Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture on the 

 Diseases of Cattle in the United States." Washington, I871. 



" Science and Commerce; their Influence on Manufac- 

 tures." By P. L. Simmonds. London : Hardwicke. 



Communications Received up to 12th.— H. E W. 



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

 —A. H. C— H. B. T.— W. T. P. W.— I. W.— H. G. G.— P. S. 

 — W. H. B.— W. H. McL.— A. N.— J. L. C— F. H. M.-J. P. 

 —J. W. G.-W. R.— R. G.— J. A., Jun.— R. M. B.— J. F.— 

 J. H. M.— J. S. B.— W. N.— F. I. W.— W. G.— J. M. C— 

 J. R S. C— J. T.— S. A. B.— H. S. H.— G. T. N.— G. O. G. N. 

 E. L.-W. F. D.-J. C— M. G.— C. B.— J. C— J. B.— W. B.— 

 A. E. M.-T. W. C— A. A.— R. L.-R. V. T.— J. S., Jun.— 

 Rev. J. B.— H. F. H.— A. L.— W. F.— J. B.— A. C.— T. S.— 

 M. B.— R. W.— W. L. B.— W. T. I.— R. B. 



