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HAKDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[Feb. 1, 1867. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications relative to advertisements, post-office 

 orders, and orders for the supply of this Journal should be 

 addressed to the Publishkr. All contributions, books, 

 and pamphlets for the Editor should be sent to 192, 

 Piccadilly, London, W. To avoid disappointment, contri- 

 butions should not be received later than the 15th of each 

 month. No notice whatever can be taken of communi- 

 cations which do not contain the name and address of the 

 writer, not necessarily for publication, if desired to be with- 

 held. We do not undertake to answer any queries not 

 specially connected with Natural History, in accordance 

 with our acceptance of that term ; nor can we answer 

 queries which might be solved by the correspondent by an 

 appeal to any elementary book on the subject. We are 

 always prepared to accept queries of a critical nature, and 

 to publish the replies, provided some, of our readers, besides 

 the querist, are likely to be interested in them. We 

 cannot undertake to return rejected manuscripts unless 

 sufficient stamps are enclosed to cover the return postage. 

 Neither can we promise to refer to or return any manu- 

 script after one month from the date of its receipt. All 

 microscopical drawings intended for publication should 

 have annexed thereto the powers employed, or the extent 

 of enlargement, indicated in diameters (thus : x 320 

 diameters). Communications intended for publication 

 should be written on one side of the paper only, and all 

 scientific names, and names of places and individuals 

 should be as legible as possible. Wherever scientific names 

 or technicalities are employed, it is hoped that the common 

 names will accompany them. Lists or tables are inad- 

 missible under any circumstances. Those of the popular 

 names of British plants and animals are retained and regis- 

 tered for publication when sufficiently complete lor that 

 purpose, in whatever form may then be decided upon. 

 Address No. 192, Piccadu.lv, London, W. 



H. D. C— The number of microscopists is so great that we 

 fear we could not devote the space required to carry out jour 

 suggestion of publishing their names and addresses. 



S. B.— See our reply to D. R. in the December number. 



J. H. M.— The first complaint of the kind which has reached 

 us. Our copy for last year was bound at the close of the 

 year, and there is not the least trace of the type " setting 

 off" on the opposite page. 



T. H.— Shere and Abinger for some species. Anywhere for 

 the commonest. A large number of species of mosses moun- 

 tainous districts alone will furnish. 



E. W.— A complete list of British insects has been promised 

 to the public for twelve months, but is not yet published. 

 Rye's " British Beetles " (Reeve & Co., 10s. 6d.) contains the 

 Coleoptera, so also does Waterhouse's "Catalogue of British 

 Coleoptera" (7s. 6d.). The only cheap work, with descrip. 

 tions, is Stephens's " Manual" (about 6s.), now almost out of 

 date. 



F. A. A. — Thistles will grow from seed as other plants. 



A. G. — The water- beetle is Agalnis hipunctatus, Fabr., very 

 common throughout the country. The small beetle. Niptus 

 hololevcus, Fald., is also common, and apparently very 

 destructive. — JR. G. K. 



G. W. F. — Corky development of the bark, very common in 

 the elm and hedge maple. 



C.F.W.— Lists of British Mosses, 4d. : Mr. Dixon, Great 

 Ayton, near Stokesley, Yorkshire. 



W. B. M. — It is the ordinary commercial seal-skin which is 

 derived from some species of Phoca inhabiting the Arctic 

 seas. 



W. R. T. — Your bog plant is Narthechim ossifragum. — 

 W. C. 



S. M. P.— Your plant is hemp (Cannabis saliva). — W. C. 



Lepidoptera. — E. wishes for larvae or pupa;, and will send 

 stamps and address to any one who will assist. 



M. C. C— Tate's "Land and Freshwater Shells," Cs., 

 coloured: R. Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. 



E. W.— The fossils are — 1. Ammonites bifcr, Quenst. ; 2. 

 Corbis supra-liassicus (n. s.) ; 3. Vermicularia polygonalis, 

 Low. Send address to R. Tate, Esq., Geological Society, 

 Somerset House, London. 



W. H. R.— The query was inserted in our first volume and 

 never answered. 



J. C— The bodies on Sallow-Bark are a Coccus, but what 

 species is not so easy to tell. 



H. H. M.— The larva of one of the Bomhycir!a3 (Lepido- 

 ptera), but it is impossible to identify it, from the condition in 

 which sent. 



W. S. G.— The shell is a purple- coloured Lacuna puteolus. 

 —R. T. * 



G. D. — We really cannot devote a column to answering 

 your queries, which any book on British Buds would do for 

 you. 



H. B.-We do not dabble in mesmerism. 



J. J. F.— Did you read the article on Wheat Mildew in our 

 last > 



H. R. L.— Of Mr. King, Great Portland-road, London. 



T. W.— For British Ferns, consult Mrs. Lankester's book; 

 and for a list of Foreign Ferns suitable for cultivation, see 

 Smith's " Feins, British and Foreign," both published at 192, 

 Piccadilly. 



W. W. S.— That subject is undergoing investigation. 



F. B. W. — A similar instance lias already been recorded. 



W. L. H — Toynbee's "Hints for Local Museums, &c.," 

 published by R. Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, at Is. 



J. B. G.— 1. We should decline. 2. " Our Reptiles," p. 166. 

 3. We know of none. 



F. Hortov and A. Badger. — Please send addresses, as 

 letters await you. 



EXCHANGES. 



Brvvm itosmni in fruit for Buxbaumia aphylla. — E. M. 

 Holmes, 2, Arundel crescent, Fix mouth. 



Orxithokhvnchus paradoxus (stuffed) for shells, corals, 

 or other objects of interest.— George Potter, ;, Montpelier- 

 road, Upper Holloway, N. 



Ovules of Orchis, showing the embryo, mounted, for 

 other objects. — J. H. Campbell, Ro>al Infirmary, Edinburgh. 



Pauloma imferialis.— A few seeds for distribution. — 

 Stamped envelope to B., care of the Editor, 192, Piccadilly. 



Cowage. — Hair from pods of Mvcuma pruriens for other 

 good (unmounted) objects.— W. II., Stamp Cilice, Fording- 

 bririge. 



Mounted Objects in exchange for other equally good 

 slides.— Send lists to E. G.Towell, 10, Norfolk-street, Strand. 



Palates of Whelk, mounted, for other objects of interest. 



— G. E. Q., 109, Long-lane, Southwark. 



Flint Flakes, Diatomaceous Earth from Tooroe Bridge, 

 and Rock specimens, for fossils, shells, or microscopic objects. 



— William Gray, Mount Charles, Belfast. 

 Phyi.lactidium pulcheli.um offered for Helinpelta. or 



Actinocyclus nndu/ntus,—R. P. Ayhvard, Id, Cotham-street, 

 Strangevvays, Manchester. 



Birds' Kggs (British) offered for British Land and Fresh- 

 water Snails. — T. Hcdwor'h, Dunston, Gateshead. 



Quinine, Santonine, Salicine, Sec, ottered for mounted 

 Microscopic Fungi.— F. W. C, 36, Hall-street, Birmingham. 



Diamond Beetle (mounted) for other objects of interest. 

 —J. R., 172, George-street, Aberdeen. 



Fern Scales trom stem of Ct/rtoniiinn falcatam for other 

 unmounted objects.— W. H. Reid, 12, Bonaccord-lane, Aber- 

 deen. 



Ma xe- hair of Lion for <ther unmounted objects of interest. 



— E. M , 6, Holford- square, Pentonville, W.C. 

 Astronomical Objective, 4\ in. diameter, 5 ft. 6 in. 



focus, and portion of brass mountings, ottered for a complete 

 4 ft. telescope of smaller aperture. — H. Davis, 24, Cornhill, 

 E.C. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



"The Popular Science Review," January, IS67. London: 

 R. Harawicke. 



"The Technologist," No. C, New Series, January, IS67. 

 London : Kent & Co. 



"The Quarteily Journal of Microscopical Science," No. 

 XXV., January, IS67. London : Churchill & Sons. 



" Intensity Coils, how made and how u;ed.'' By " Dyer." 

 London : Snter, Alexander, & Co. 



" The Distinctive Characters of the principal British Natural 

 Orders of Plants." Arranged in Tables by William A.Tilden, 

 F.C.S. London: 1 7, Bloomsbur> -square. 



"The Life of a Salmon." The Autobiography of the late 

 Salmo Salar, Esq., comprising a Narrative of the Life, 

 Personal Adventures, and Death of a Tweed Salmon. Edited 

 by a Fisherman. London: Day & Son (Limited). 1867. 



"Hooper & Co.'s General Spring Catalogue for IS67." 

 Horper & Co., Covent Garden Market. ISO'7. 



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