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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE- GOSSIP. 



[Oct. 1, 1S67. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications relative to advertisements, post-office 

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

 addressed to the Publisher. 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. 



J. R. W.— No. 6, Bartramia fontana; 7, Myrica gale.— 

 R. B. 



T. H., .Tun.— No. 6, Hypnum striatum; 8, 9, 11, Hypnum 

 cuspidatum.— R. B. 



R. B. — Bryum atropurpureum. 



F. W.— No. 1, Barbula fallax ; 2, Dicranella varia.— R. B. 

 W. E. H. — The scaly (metamorphosed bud) gall 011 oak is 



called the " artichoke gall," and is very common. 



M. C. T. S — Archaeology is beyond our province. 



W. D. N. — British Neuroptera. A list of British species is 

 included in Morris's " Catalogue of British Insects." There 

 is no special work on British Neuroptera. Curtis's British 

 Entomology, republished by Reeve & Co. ; the section 

 " Neuroptera" may be had in parts separately. A catalogue 

 of British Neuroptera is published by the trustees of the 

 British Museum. 



J. P., Bridgewater.— Consult fig. I67atp. 181 of our volume 

 for 1866. Is it not the same? 



J. D. R. — If you send us in a quill specimens of the para- 

 site, we will inform you. 



J. C. D.— The Colias Edusa is common enough on the 

 Sussex coast this autumn. 



A. W.— The eleventh number of Newman's British Moths, 

 with each species figured, is advertised to appear in the 

 middle of October. 



G. O. may obtain Nitella or Vallisneria (growing plants) of 

 Mr. Kennedy, Covent Garden Market, W.C. 



H. C. is a careless reader of Science-Gossip, or he would 

 have noticed what he calls " Fungi on oak leaves" figured 

 and described as " Galls," in vol. ii., 1866, p. 228, fig. 217. 



W. T. H.— Place the animal in an ant's nest, and they will 

 anatomize it for you. 



A. J. — No. 1, Bryum pseudotriquetruni; 2, Hypnum stel- 

 latum ; 3, Hypnum exannulatum. — R. B. 

 E. C— Bryum capillare.— R. B. 



S. H. — Did not enclose name and address, nor stamped 

 envelope for name and address, which was requested, and we 

 have no authority to publish it here. 

 T. H., Jun. — Not a Veronica at all, but Alchemilla arvensis. 

 H. W. is thanked, but a long extract from Middleton's 

 Geography is scarcely tlie answer required to the query about 

 the Maelstrom. 



Diptera. — The only work on British Diptera which we 

 know of, that approaches completeness, is F. Walker's 

 Diptera, 3 vols., 8vo., published by Reeve at 25s. per volume. 

 Blue Pimpernel. — Several correspondents send us 

 notices of the occurrence of the Blue Pimpernel, which is by 

 no means rare. 



M. S. B. H. — The fly is Tabanus bovinus, and commonly 

 called the " Horse Fly."-F. W. 



S. C— Cases of caddis worms ■. nothingnovel. 

 J. S. — No insects, only a crushed leaf, in your letter. We 

 suppose it was the common aphis found on beans. 



W. W. S.— The species called Chaitophorus uceris, Koch., 

 in Walker's list, is the same as Aphis uceris of Science- 

 Gossip, p. 204.— F. W. 



R. V. T. — The grass is Gustridiam lendigerum, rather an 

 uncommon species. — J. G. B. 



J. B. — Your variety of caterpillar of Death's-Head Moth is 

 well figured in pi. 3 of Fuessly's Archives. 



J. G. — Hints on the Formation of Local Museums. London. 

 Hardwicke. One Shilling. 



C. E. D. — Too much of a list to insert, and queries without 

 conscience to answer for one individual. We may do a little 

 for you. 



B. T.— No. 5 is Notania loriculata; 6, Membraniporapilosa. 

 — E. C. 



X. — A common complaint. We fear that we cannot help 

 you. 



W. J. B.— The prevailing formon the Raby slide appears to 

 be Surirella biseriata.— J. B. 



Ignoramus is quite worthy of the signature adopted. We 

 neither attempt to name objects from description, nor to 

 answer anonymous querists. 



H. M. H. — No 1, Hogweed, Heracleum spondylium. 



G.Jl.— Very probably of Mr. Kennedy, Covent Garden. 



M. A. L. — We are not partial to guesses or guessing. 



Harvest Moon, Maelstrom, and answers to several other 

 queries, are unavoidably postponed for want of space. 



EXCHANGES. 



Vicia sylvatica for Gonepteryx rhamni, or Arge 

 Galathea.— W. D. Robinson, 2, Shandwick-place, Edinburgh. 



Lepidoptera of South Coast in exchange for others. — 

 J. D. R., Conservatory Cottage, Charlton, Dover. 



Greensand Fossils (Cambridge) in exchange for Silurian 

 fossils.— Rev. J. S. Tute, Markington, Ripley, Yorks. 



Pl'jmatklla repens in exchange for any other fresh- 

 water Polyzoa (except Cristatella mucedo) in a living state. — 

 C. J. Richardson, Old Change, E.C. 



Alpine Plants in exchange for rare British or others. — 

 T. Howse, Jun., Garrybank, West Hill, Upper Sydenham. 



Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, well set, and in good con- 

 dition, for other Coleoptera.— J. Barlow, 1, Thompson-street, 

 Stantonbury, Wolverton, Bucks. 



Recent Shells. — Vertigo edentula for other British Shells. 

 — J. Beaulah, Bracken Hill, Brigg. 



Fossil Fish Teeth and Bones (mounted) for slides of 

 Photographs. — John Sim, West Cramlington. 



Richmond Earth, for good mounted objects. — W. Free- 

 man, 2, Ravensbourne Hill, Lewisham-road, Greenwich, S.E. 



Fossils from Chalk, London Clay, and Woolwich;Beds, 

 for fossils from other formations. — F. Stanley, 3, Dane- 

 terrace, The Dane, Margate. 



Planorbis albus and P. lineatus. — I have a few to dis- 

 tribute, on receipt of stamp and small box. — W. H. G., Vernon 

 Cottage, Thornhill-road, N. 



British Bird's Eggs in exchange for British Lepidoptera 

 (Nocturna?).— Send lists to F. Jonas, 13, Canterbury- villas, 

 Maida Vale, London. 



Amphora minutissima parasitic upon Nitzschia sigmoidea 

 for other rare Diatoms. — E. \V., 21, West-street, Banbury. 



Gorse Web-Spinning Mite (see Science-Gossip for 

 June), in exchange for mounted objects.— J. C. White, 

 Montpellier House, Budleigh Salterton, Devon. 



British Ferns. — Rare plants for other varieties. Iron- 

 sand and Kawri Gum from New Zealand, for other objects of 

 interest. — J. E. M., Woodfield, Moseley, Birmingnam. 



Elpkria pulvago, Dianfhwcia capsincula and Larentia 

 ca>siuta, for other Macro-lepidoptera. — A. Ford, 38, Mowbray • 

 street, Sheffield. 



British Molluscs.— Prepared tongues of Cyclostoma 

 and other species, for the Animals of Valvata, Assiminia, 

 Testacella, Clausilia or Ancylus. — W. R. May, 20, Tiinidad- 

 place, Islington. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



" Mushrooms and Toadstools : How to distinguish easily the 

 differences between Edible and Poisonous Fungi," with two 

 large sheets containing figures of 29 Edible, and 31 Poisonous 

 Species (coloured). By Worthington G. Smith. London : 

 Hardwicke. 



" Letter to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch on the Quad- 

 rature and Rectification of the Circle." By James Smith. 

 Liverpool: E. Howell. 



" The American Naturalist." No. 6, August, I867. Salem, 

 U.S., Essex Institute. 



" The Naturalist's Circular, August and September, 1 867. 

 London : H. Hall. 



"Country Life." Nos. 1 to 6. London. Aug. and Sept. 



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