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BARDWICKKS SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Oldhamia antiqiia and O. radatia, Cambrian rocks, Bray 

 Head. What offers in minerals or fossils for the above? — 

 William Doyle, Seapoint Road, Bray, Ireland. 



Shells. — Pecten uta.xiiiius, P. iigrinus, P. opercularis, 

 LaSiEU rubra, Lucina spinifera, Cyprina islandicn, Astarte 

 iriaitgularis, Venus exoleta, V. lincta. Tapes virgineus, 

 Tectura testudinalis, Trocltus inontacuti, T. tuinidus, T. 

 inilligraiLus, T. Ziziphiiins, Rissoa metiibranacea, R.fulgida, 

 R. cingillus, R. violacea, Hydrobia ulvie, H. -jentrosa, 

 Natica niontacuti, N. alderi, Trickotropsis borealis, Cerith- 

 opsis iubercularts, Murex erinacens, Defrancia linearis, and 

 Pleurotoma turricula. Also land and freshwater shells in 

 exchange for micro-slides, insects, shells not in collection, or 

 books on any of the above subjects, or what offers ? — W. D. 

 Rae, 9 Claremont Terrace, Alpha Road, Millwall, London, E. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 1SS5, and January to April, 

 1886; "Entomological Magazine," June, 1885, to April, 1886; 

 "The Entomologist," 188s (bound). Wanted, birds' eggs.— 

 O. Weiss, 87 Hasborne Road, Birmingham. 



i\ WATER immersion of R. and J. Beck, cost 8/., nearly new 

 (180° N.A. i-os) ; a splendid lens. What offers?— E. Wagstaft, 

 3 Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 



American lepidoptera, and cocoons and chrysalids of same. 

 American birds' eggs and Indian relics offered for exotic 

 lepidoptera other than European. S. American, African, and 

 Australian especially desired. — Levi W. Mengel, Reading, 

 Penna. 



Wanted, any books relating to microscopy, also good un- 

 mounted material, in exchange for choice microscopic slides of 

 every description. — R. Suter, 5 Highweek Road, Tottenham. 



Duplicate copy of Christy's "Birds of Essex" (just pub- 

 lished, demy 8vo., price 15.?.), offered in exchange for any other 

 similar county ornithology. — W. W. Porteous, Saffron Walden. 



Text-books for Intermediate Science (London), offered in 

 exchange for magic-lantern, slides, or text-books on geology, 

 mathematics, or mental and moral science. For list apply to — 

 "Magister," 8 Venetia Road, Finsbury Park, N. 



Planorbis cornejcs, var. albida. Vertigo pyg7nixa, Balia per- 

 versa, &c., and first-class microscopic slides. Wanted, Vertigo 

 alpestris, and other British and foreign land and freshwater 

 shells. — William Moss, 13 Milton Place, .Ashton-under-Lyne. 



I HAVE numerous duplicates in carboniferous fossils, in- 

 cluding lepidodendron, sigillaria, neuropteris, sphenopteris, 

 ulodenron, calamitcs, annularia, posidonia, aviculopecten, and 

 orthoceras. I shall be pleased to make exchanges for chalk or 

 eocene fossils.— W. A. Parker, 634 Market Street, Facit, 

 Rochdale. 



Fifty foreign stamps (no German or English), " Playtime 

 Naturalist" (5J. book, quite new), "Works of Mrs. Hemans" 

 \5.r. book, quite new). What offers in exchange for any of the 

 above? — Richd. B. Corbishley, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lanes. 



For exchange, good fossils from millstone grit of following 

 genus, all named and localized: productus, bakevellia, ger- 

 villia, orthis, natica, bellerophon, schizodus. Also from Yore- 

 dale shales, Gonatites reticulatus. Wanted, fossils from 

 Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian. Send lists to — W. F. Holroyd, 

 Greenfield, near Oldham. 



Will any collector of fossils, who has named duplicates to 

 spare, kindly send them to a small local museum now being 

 formed? Address — A. L. D., The Vicarage, Southboro, Tun- 

 bridge Wells. 



Science-Gossip for 1889, "Naturalists' Gazette," 1889-90, 

 " Field Club," 1890, unbound, good condition. What offers in 

 natural history? — W. Tumbull, i Home Terrace, Edinburgh. 



Heads of mummy cats, in very good preservation. Desiderata, 

 foreign sponges, echinidse, Crustacea, or insects. — C. Walker, 

 Mossy Bank, Egremont, Cheshire. 



Seven hundred species of shells for exchange. Exotic land 

 shells particularly desired. Lists exchanged. — W. Bendall, 

 28 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W. 



Australian plants. New Zealand ferns, mosses, lichens, 

 shells, and packets of micro material, with references to pub- 

 lished papers in which the deposits are described, offered in 

 exchange for foreign land and freshwater shells not in collec- 

 tion, or works on conchology. — W. A. Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Wanted, side-blown eggs of sparrow-hawk, kestrel, landrail, 

 and many others, in exchange for rare eggs. — Jas. Ellison, 

 Stecton, Keighley. 



W.\ntkd, fossils from various localities ; a large number of 

 good duplicates offered in exchange. — Thomas W. Reader, 

 171 Hemingfoad Road, London, N. 



Offered, "Science for All," 5 vols, (unbound), Fullom's 

 "Marvels of Science," "Text-Book of Mineralogy," and 

 Professor Geikie's "Text-Book of Geology," &c., in exchange 

 for British land and freshwater mollusca not in collection. 

 Send list to — E. H. J. Baldock, 67 Brewer Street, Woolwich. 



Shells from Red Crag. — Asiart^omaiii, C ardita planicosta, 

 cardiums, Cyrena cunuforinis, Natica clausa, pectens, Tro- 

 phon clathratuM, Pusus contrarius and antiquus, Nassa 

 reticosa. Purpura reticosa. Wanted, fossils from chalk, gault. 

 Weald clay, and Tunbridge Wells sands. — Curator, Oakfield, 

 Southborough, Tunbridge Wells. 



Duplicates. — Sophina calias, Streptaxis Blanfordi, S. 

 Jiwobaldi, S. BuT^itanica, S. bombax, S. exacutus; Clausilia 

 Waageni, C. Theobaldi, C. insignis, C. Couldiana, C. cylin- 



drica ; Helicarion Flemingii, Cataulus albescens, Raphatdus 

 chrysalis, Hybocystis gravida. Cyclop/torus Siamensis, C. 

 spcciosus. List of many others. Desiderata, Indian and South 

 American land shells. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, Twicken- 

 ham. 



Wanted, a good copy of Davidson's " Silurian Brachio- 

 poda," "Annals and Magazine of Natural History," series 5, 

 vol. iii., and any papers on the graptolites. — J. Bickeston 

 Morgan, Welshpool. 



Wanted, about a tablespoonful of sand rich in microscopic 

 shells, forams, &c., also dried leaves of Onosjna taurica, and 

 frond of Davallia canariensis showing fructification. — H. 

 Ebbage, Framlingham, Suffolk. 



Offers wanted for 13 vols, of Science-Gossip, 1875-1887, 

 bound in publisher's blue cloth, in good condition. Address — 

 H. Muller, Mottinghani, Eltham, Kent. 



Side-blown eggs of whinchat, sedge, garden and willow 

 vvarblers, tree and meadow pipits, skylark, reed bunting, great 

 titmouse, bullfinch, rook, jackdaw, swallow, sandmartin, ring- 

 dove and lapwing for exchange. Offers to — R. Larder, 33 

 Mercer Row, Louth, Lines. 



Science-Gossip (1885-89) in exchange for perfect micro- 

 slides or recent text-books — list first. — W. E. Watkins, 32 Hun- 

 tingdon Street, Barnsbury, N. 



Wanted, a petrological microscope, with or without acces- 

 sories, by Swift or Crouch. Particulars to— Micro, 8 Tothill 

 Street, S.W. 



Wanted, M. pellucida, incurva, H. ventrosa, P. fon- 

 tinale, PL dilatus, A. Iac7istris, &c. Offered, P. contecta, 

 P. corneus, and many other British land, freshwater and marine 

 shells. — W. T. Pearce, loi Mayfield Road, Seafield, Gosport. 



" Magazine of Natural History," conducted by Loudon and 

 Charlesworth, 1 829-1840, 13 vols., half-calf, Hooker's "Stu- 

 dent's British Flora," "Naturalist," vol. v., 1879-1880, ento- 

 mological collecting box, japanned tin, iij inches by 8 inches, 

 hardly used, in exchange for works on natural history, Her- 

 bert's " Amaryllidacese," or offers. — Rev. W. W. flemyng, 

 Clonegam Rectory, Portlaw, co. Waterford. 



Wanted, foreign worms, living or in spirits, in exchange for 

 British earthworms correctly named (including Allurus tetra;- 

 drus, Allolobophora chlorotica, Lumbricus rubellus, the 

 Brandling and others) ; sent alive or preserved. — Rev. Hilderic 

 Friend, F.L.S., Idle, Bradford. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Autobiography of the Earth," by the Rev. H. N. 

 Hutchinson (London : Edward Stanford). — " Fresh-Water 

 Aquaria," by the Rev. Gregory C. Bateman. — " Poems," by 

 Nina F. Layard. — "Applied Geography," by J. Scott Kettie 

 (London: Geo. Philip & Son).— "Soap Bubbles," by C. V. 

 Boys ; and " Spinning-Tops," by J. Perry (London : S.P.C.K.). 

 —"Pasteur and Rabies," by T. M. Doulon (London: G. Bell 

 & Sons). — " Sound, Light, and Heat," by J. Spencer (London : 

 Percival & Co.).— "Electro-Motors," by S. R. Battone (Lon- 

 don: Whittaker & Co.).— "Metal Turning," by a Foreman 

 Pattern Maker (London: Whittaker & Co.).— "The Natural 

 Food of Man," by Emmet Densmore (London : Pewtress & 

 Co.). — "The Electric Light Popularly Explained," by A. 

 Bromley Holmes (London : Bemrose & Sons). — " Fathers of 

 Biology," by Chas. McRae (London: Percival & Co.).— "The 

 Canary Book," Part 8.—" British Cage Birds," Part 8.— 

 " Researches on Micro-Organisms," by Dr. A. M. Griffiths 

 (London : Bailliere, Tindal & Cox). — " The Darwinian Theory 

 of the Origin of Species," by F. P. Pascoe (London: Gumey & 

 Jackson). — "The Geology of Barbadoes," by J. B. Harrison 

 and A. J. Jukes-Brown. — " Ocular Symptons found in Paralysis 

 of the Insane," by Dr. C. A. Otwer. — " The Essex Naturalist," 

 July to September. — Wesley's "Nat. Hist, and Scientific 

 Book Circular," No. 105. — "American Microscopical Journal." 

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

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

 Magazine." — "The Midland Naturalist."— "Feuille des 

 Jeiines Naturalistes." — " The Microscope." — " Nature Notes." 

 — "Proceedings of the Geologists' Association." — "The Philo- 

 sophy of Cycling." — " Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' 

 Society." — "Transactions of the Penzance Nat. Hist, and 

 Antiquarian Society." — "The Naturalist's Annual and Direc- 

 tory for 1891." — "Journal and Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales."—" British Cage Birds," Part 7. 

 — " Electricity in Every-Day Life." — " Insect Life," Nos. 2 

 and 3. — " Revision of a Genus of Fossil Fishes, Dapedius."— 

 " The Geology of Sutton Coldfield," &c., &c. 



Communications received up to the 14TH ult. from : 

 C. D. H.— F. A. L.— H. B.— J. E. L.— H. P.— E. W.— 



V. T.— Miss L.— E. H. J. 

 ;.— W. J. S.— J. E.— E. 6. 



—J. W. R.— J. B. M.— W. A. G.— W. J. S.— J. E.— E. G. P. 

 — W. B.— E. B.— Dr. G. T. C. M.— C. W.— F. C. M — 

 L. W. M.— r. C. S.— R. S.— H. D.— W. W. P.— W. M.— 

 W. A. P.— W. B.— R. A. B.— J. B. C— A. B. G.— W. E. W. 

 W. T. P.-G. H.— H. M.— H. G. W.— W. W. F.— W. T. H. 

 — H. W.— Dr. A. O.— A. B. G.— A. E. S.— R. B. C— V. A. L. 

 — C. W. P.-&C., &c. 



