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HARDWICKKS SCIENCE-GOSSIP, 



nineteen numbers, viz., June to December, 1876, and the 

 whole of 1877. What oflcrs for the lot?— T. Black, 190 Bell- 

 hagg Road, Sheffield. 



W.\NTED, dried leaves of eleagnus, deutzia, onosmo, &c., 

 also lepidoptera, Ulysses, niorpho, rypheiis, &c. Good 

 exchange in micro-slides. — George Read, 87 Lordship Road, 

 London, N. 



Twenty-two copper coins, and Science-Gossip from May 

 to December, 1890, to exchange. What offers in fossils? — 

 Walter C. Shield, 36 Garlurk Street, Crossbill, Glasgow. 



Student's microscope by Maw, Son, & Thompson ; rack 

 and fine adjustments, double nose-piece, two eye-pieces, + and 

 A objectives. Want high-power objective, or lirst-class bino- 

 cular. — Taylor, 26 Marchmont Street, London, W.C. 



Wanted, eighth and following parts of Braithwaite's " Moss 

 Flora," or " Sphagnacese." Dried plants and mosses, or other 

 books in exchange, including Greene's "Coelenterata " and 

 "Protozoa;" Eyton's "Rarer British Birds" (woodcuts); 

 Carpenter's " Microscope," and others. List sent. — J. A. 

 Wheldon, 32 Langham Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. 



Offered, "Our Earth and Its Story," 3 vols., and "Dic- 

 tionary of English History," both in parts, but in excellent 

 condition. Wanted a detective camera. — R. H. Lawton, 

 6 Mosley Street, Manchester. 



Wanted, the " Library," vols. i. and ii. (unbound pre- 

 ferred), also "Great Thoughts," vols, i., ii. and iii., first edition. 

 Both must be clean, complete, and in good condition. — Chas. 

 Leigh, Library, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Cromwell Road, 

 London, S.W. 



Numerous duplicates in carboniferous fossils, especially 

 ferns and corals, in exchange for trilobites. — P. Wright, Brunt- 

 wood, Galston, Ayrshire, N.B. 

 Duplicates. — Machaon, cardamines, agon, Adippe lo, 

 , polychloros, P. chrysilis, Z. Jilijiendulte, E. lancstris, L . 

 Rotatoria, CttcuUia vtrbasci, in exchange for others. — E. 

 Wilson, 115 St. Martins at Oak, Norwich. 



British reptiles and batrachians wanted, perfect adult 

 living or spirit specimens, in exchange for correctly named 

 foreign species or other objects. — G. E. ]\L, s Warwick Place 

 West, Belgravia, London. 



Good specimens of dentaria bulbifera, and Gentiana pneu- 

 jHOnantke, in exchange for fossils from the Wealden London 

 clay, and Bournemouth beds.— Curator, The Vicarage, South- 

 borough. 



Offered, good cast of ichthyosaurus from lias of Lyme 

 Regis, 22 X 12. Wanted, any good fossils from any formation. 

 — M., 56 Clarendon Villas, West Brighton. 



Wanted, brilliant foreign coleoptera ; need not be set, but 

 must be correctly named. Good exchange given in first-class 

 botanical sections, either mounted or unmounted, or objects of 

 general interest. State quantity ot specimens with sample. — 

 R. G. Mason, 69 Clapham Park Road, Clapham, S.W. 



M.\NY species of marine and land shells from S. Australia, 

 Madeira, Porto Santo, and Gibraltar, for exchange. Any offer 

 of shells — in good condition, and not already in collection — 

 accepted. Send list of duplicates to — F. W., Lordship House, 

 Tottenham. 



Wanted, ether freezing microtome, Williams's preferred. 

 Will give powerful Quackenbush air-gun, with slugs and darts, 

 almost new, cost 48^-. — H. Ebbage, Framlingham, Suffolk. 



Wanted, good objective for microscope, I or J7 inch, with 

 Societies' screw; also " Micrographic Dictionary." Otfered, 

 three volumes of "Knowledge," and micro-slides. — P. Briggs, 

 Clayton, near Bradford, Yorks. 



Duplicates. — Harpa ventricosa, Ovulntn ovum, Cypraa 

 arabica. Bulla a-ntptilla, Olivancillaria gibbosa. Wanted, 

 other foreign shells. — J. E. Cooler, 93 Southwood Lane, 

 Highgate, N. _ 



Wanted, a copy of the "London Catalogue of British 

 Mosses and Hepatics," published in 1881. — Ernest S. Salmon, 

 Clevelands, Reigate. 



I SHALL be very glad if persons interested in conchology, 

 residing in Exeter and neighbourhood, and willing to co- 

 operate in establishing a local society, will communicate with 

 me. Address— L. J. S., Monmouth House, Monmouth Street, 

 Topsham, S. Devon. 



Wanted, any good poultry in exchange .'"or minerals and 

 geological specimens. — William Hetherington, Nenthead, 

 Alston Moore, Cumberland. 



Collins' \, new, in fine condition, cost 3/. -^s. What oflfers 

 in exchange?— E. Wagstaft, 3 Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, 

 Birmingham. 



Wanted, vols. 4-9 of the "Young Naturalist," bound or 

 unbound ; must be in good condition. State desiderata to — 

 F. W. Paple, 62 Waterloo Street, Bolton. 



Saville Kent's " Infusoria," no further use for it, bound in 

 half-green morocco cloth, excellent condition. What offers ? 

 — E. Wagstaff, Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 



For slide of starch grains from bulb of spider orchis, for the 

 polariscope, send other slide. — John Boggust, Alton, Hants. 



Wanted, fossils from all formations, in exchange for coal- 

 measure fossils, Spirorbis, Anthracoda robusta, A. acuta, A. 

 elongata, scales and teeth of megalichthys, rhizodus, &c. 

 Address— John Laycock, 20 Botany Lane, Ashton-under- 

 Lyne, Lancashire. . 



Good foreign shells wanted ; need not be named. Offered, 

 nat. hist, and other literature, or suitable exchange. Foreign, 

 correspondence solicited. — W. Jones, jun., 27 Mayton Street, 

 Holloway, London, N. 



Wanted, vars. of llclix aspersa, H. nemoralis, H. arbtis- 

 toruni. If. hortensis, H. cantiana, H. pisana, H, virgata,. 

 //. caperata, //. ericetornm, H . rotundata, Buliinus acutus^ 

 &c., H. revelata, type ; Clausilia Rolphii and bifilicata,. 

 Achatina acicula. Will give darts of helices in return. — 

 A. Hartley, 8 Cavendish Road, Idle, near Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Offered, hardy fern roots, primrose roots, &c. Wanted \n 

 exchange, store boxes to hold insects, eggs, shells, fossils, 

 coins, &c. — W. Z. Balmbra, The Cottages, Warkworth Station, 

 via Lesbiiry, Northumberland. 



AcHARlus's " Lichenographia Universalis," a fine, well- 

 bound copy, offered in exchange for double nose-piece, bent,. 

 Society screv, or for good copy of Leighton's " Angiocarpous 

 Lichens." — Wm. Smith, 28 Addison Place, Arbroath, N.B. 



Wanted, Sach's " Text-Book of Botany," and parts of 

 Braithwaite's " Moss Flora," also slides from mosses, tern^, 

 and hepaticae. Will give other mounts in exchange. — T. B., 

 124 Castle Street, Hinckley. 



Wanted, to exchange " Knowledge," vols. i. to v.. Car- 

 penter's "Mental Physiology" "Nature," various volumes, 

 and other books (list sent), for micro-slides, microscope appa- 

 ratus, &c., or books on botany and microscopy. — G. Freeman, 

 B.Sc, sr Danby Street, Denmark Park, S.E. 



Scotch lichens offered in exchange for southern species, 

 especially from the English limestone districts. — Wm. Smith,. 

 28 Addison Place, Arbroath, N.B. 



Offered, Helix pisana, rufescens, ericetorum ; Planorbis 

 coinplanatus and corneus, Bulimus ncutits, LitnticEa stagnalis, 

 Clausilia rugosa. "WanlcA, Pisidiuiit/o/ttiiiale, Vertigo anii- 

 vertigo, Zonites cellarius and iiitiduhts, Testacella haliotidea. 

 Pupa secale, Dreisse/ia polymorpha. — H. W. D., South- 

 borough Vicarage, Tunbridge Wells. 



Will give Flower's "Osteology of the Mammalia," for 

 living pupa of lepidoptera, sphingidse preferred. — Ernest Piatt, 

 West Street, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 



Offered, H. alborabris, H. throides, H. fallax and Z. 

 excavatus (North America), Pecten tigriiius. Lacuna divari- 

 cata, L. i>allidula, T. testudinalis, Myra truncata, Unio- 

 margarittfer, CI. laminata, PL nitidits, and many others. 

 Wanted, land, freshwater and marine shells not in collection.. 

 —P. R. Shaw, 48 Bidston Road, Birkenhead. _ 



Wanted, a good microscope, with accessoiies, in exchange 

 for a safety bicycle fitted with trangent spokes, balls to al! 

 parts, patent tyres, and all latest improvements. — I. Russon,. 

 15 Str. Collegio, St. Julian's, Malta. 



Offered, foraminiferous material, mounted diatoms, or 

 mounted pathological objects, in exchange for geological lite- 

 rature. — I. H. Cooke, Highland House, St. Julian's, Malta. 



BOOKS. ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 

 "An Explanation of the Phonopore," by C. Langdon-Davie=; 

 (London: Kegan Paul). — "The Lepidoptera of Suffolk," by 

 E. N. Bloomfield (London: W. Wesley).— " British Cage 

 Birds," Part 10, and " The Canary Book," Part 10. by Robt. 

 L. Wallace (London: L. Upcott Gill).— "Transactions Hert- 

 fordshire Nat. Hist. Society," Part 9, vol. v., and Parts i, 2 

 and 3 of vol. vi. — "Phenomena of the Glacial Period," by 

 Dugald Bell.— "The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Ana- 

 tomy, and Physiology," by T. W. Cowan (London : Houlston 

 & Sons). — "Electricity; a Sketch for General Readers," by 

 E. M. Caillard (London: John Murray).— " Are the Effects nf 

 Use and Disuse Inherited?" by W. Piatt Ball (London: 

 Macmillan).— "The Book of Aquaria," by Messrs. Bateman 

 and Bennett (London: L. Upcott Gill).— " Geology of the 

 Country around Liverpool," by Geo. H. Mortom (London : 

 G. Phillip & Son). — "The Naturalist of Cumbrae," by the 

 Rev. Thos. R. R. Stebbing (London: Kegan Paul).— "A 

 Class-Book on Light," by R. E. Steel (London : Methuen & 

 Co.).— Wesley's " Natural History and Book Circular.'^'— 

 "American Microscopical Journal."- "The Microscope."— 

 "American Naturalist."— " Canadian Entomologist."— " The 

 Naturalist."— "The Botanical Gazette."— "The Gentleman's 

 Magazine."— "The Midland Naturalist."— " The Garner."— 

 "Quekett Journal," January.— " Feuille des Jeunes Natu- 

 ralistes."— " Quarterly Journal," Royal Microscopical Society,. 

 &c., &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from:- 

 M. J. T.— J. A. W.-E. H.— W. C. S.— C. O.— G. R.— 



D. W. B.— R. S.-T. W. R.-T. B.-A. H.-J. W. B.— T.— 



E. H. R.— S. B.— E. A. M.— F. H. W.-L. C. H.— W. M. W. 

 —A. H. W.— W. P.— J. E. L.— R. H. L.— J. A.— E. H. W. 

 _W. J.— F. W. P.— W. L. B.— E. P.— J. B.— J. L.— E. W.— 

 W. H.— F. R.— B. C. R.— L. J. S— J. E. C— R. G. M.— 

 E. S. S.— H. E.-P. B.-F. W.-F. C. M.— F. W. F.— C. B. 

 —Miss C— E. P.— W. J. S.— E. B.— T. B.— W. S.-E. W.— 

 P. R. S.-G. F.-H. W. D.— G. A.— H. D.— W. G. K.— S. J.. 

 — T. G. B.— I. H. C— J. S. N.— R. de G. B.— &c., &c. 



