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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Langhien. Sections of corals and spongy forms, minute recent 

 corals, coral vars., &c., also about half-a-dozen crystals, &c. 

 Wanted, material (no diatoms or forams), ground-edge slips, 

 cells, thin glass covers, living pupae, or anything pertaining to 

 natural history. — H. Durrant, 4 Boulton Road, West Bromwich. 



Small collection of British and foreign shells, unnamed, 

 iSo specimens, sixty or more varieties. Also small geological 

 /:ollection. What offers? or will exchange for good book on 

 British beetles. — H. Browne, 53 St. Philip's Road, Heigham, 

 Norwich. 



Wanted, the following British land and freshwater shells : — 

 7". haliotidea, scututuju ; A. marginata, gagates ; L. Icevis, 

 Hnereo-niger , arboriim ; S. oblonga, H. obvoluta ; V. aiitiver- 

 iigo, lilljeborgi, moulinsiana, substriata, tutitida, angnstior ; 

 A. lineata, P. acuta, H. jfcnkinsit, and vars. of all water 

 shells, also Continental and other foreign land and freshwater 

 shells. Will give American land and freshwater shells, birds' 

 skins, nests and eggs, living land tortoises (box), and beetles, 

 butterflies, and fungi mosses. Foreign correspondence solicited. 

 — W. J. Farrer, box 16, Orange, Va., U.S.A. 



For exchange, a small collection of land, freshwater, and 

 marine shells, fossils, &c., about 80 species, 200 specimens. 

 Wanted, good microscope objective, i or i. — S. O. Grocock, 

 M.C.S., 13 Lower Maryon Road, Charlton, Kent. 



"Atlas of Fossil Conchology" (Brown's), 114 large 

 .plates, 3500 figures, published 1889 at three guineas, offered 

 lor collection of fossils or mineralogical specimens. Wanted, 

 "The Micrographic Dictionary." — Mr. Stewart, 17 Upper 

 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh. 



What offers for Darwin's " Phytologia," first edition, quarto, 

 -boards ; Darwin's " Zoonomia," second edition, 2 vols, quarto, 

 calf; Karl Russ's " Speaking Parrots;" Greene's "Amateur's 

 Aviary of Foreign Birds;" Marshall's "The Frog;" also 

 SciENCK-Gossii' for 1884 and 1889. — H. Roberts, 60 Princess 

 Road, Kilburn, London. 



Small collection of minerals, in case, offered in exchange 

 for fossils or shells. — T. W. Reader, 171 Hemingford Road, 

 London, N. 



New Zealand shells, principally marine, offered for shells 

 (not in collection, foreign land and freshwater species preferred. 

 — W. A. Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Wanted, Harvey's "Phycologia Britannica." Offered, 

 Crouch microscope with i-inch and i-inch objectives, or Zeiss 

 i-inch immersion objective. — T. H. Buffham, Comely Bank 

 iioad, Walthamstow. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip, Nos. 253-308, in exchange for 

 first-class micro-slides. — W. Tutcher, 57 Berkeley Road, 

 Bristol. 



Duplicates. — Sophina calias, Streptaxis Blanfordi, S. 

 Tlieobaldi, S. Burmaitica, S. botnbax, S. cxaC7iius, Clausiiia 

 iVaageni, C. Theobaldi, C. iusignis, C. Gouldiana, C. cylin- 

 drica, Helkarioti Flemingit, Cataulus albescens, RapJiarlus 

 chrysalis, Hybocystis gravida, Cyclophorus Siame?isis, C. 

 speciosus ; list of many others. Desiderata, Indian and South 

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

 ham. 



Wanted, any books relating to microscopy, also choice 

 anraounted material, in exchange for choice microscopic slides 

 >jf every description. — R. Suter, 5 Highweek Road, Totten- 

 ham, London. 



Wanted, an injecting syringe and a Valentin's knife. — 

 H. P., 103, Camden Street, London, N.W. 



Oldlmmia antiqua andC. radatia, Cambrian rocks. Bray 

 Head. What offers in minerals or fossils for the above 7— 

 William Doyle, Seapoint Road, Bray, Ireland. 



Collection of dried plants, fifty species, made in Italy and 

 France, 1844, most mounted. List on application. 'What 

 offers? To be disposed of complete ; mosses desired. — Miss E. 

 Armitage, Dadnor, Ross. 



C.^ssell's " Science for All," 5 vols, (clean, unbound), 

 " Knowledge," 2 vols., 1887, 1S88 (clean, unbound), and several 

 cithers, offered in exchange for British land and freshwater 

 mollusca not in collection. Send list to — C. H. J. Baldock, 

 f 7 Brewer Street, Woolwich. 



Duplicates. — Varieties of guillemot eggs, including some 

 choice forms. Desiderata, British birds' eggs not in collection, 

 or varieties of same. — W. Hewett, 6 Howard Street, Fulford 

 Road, York. 



Valuable Grecian clausilias, and other shells, offered for 

 shells not in collection. — Address — Miss F. M. Hele, 11 Elm- 

 grove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



A fine collection of Scotch graphites offered in exchange for 

 rare tropical shells. — Address — Miss F. M. Hele, 11 Elmgrove 

 Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



Advertiser wishes to correspond with some person who 

 will undertake to send names of South African spiders and 

 f;corpions in exchange for specimens. — F. West, Poplar Villa, 

 Lansdowne Place, Port EliEabeth. 



"Royal Microscopical Journal," 1 869-1 S87, inclusive, in 

 parts, all clean and perfect. What offers? — B., 3 Brownhill 

 Road, Catford, Kent. 



Wanted British and foreign shells not in collection. Offered, 

 many other shells. — E. R. Sykes, 9 Belvidere, Weymouth. 



Offered, more than 550 species of plants from the North of 

 iFrance, in exchange, at once, for as many species, provided 



they be not French ones. Write to M. Abel Briquet, 49 Rue 

 Jean de Bologne, Douai (Nord), France. 



Wanted, January, 1890, number of Science-Gossip, ts . 

 offered. Address — Rev. W. Langley, Narborough Rectory, 

 Leicester. 



Offered, about 400 species of fossils of the tertiary Parisian 

 grounds, well named, in good state of preservation, and in good 

 number ; also living shells. Wanted in exchange, fossils of 

 other tertiary grounds, living shells, prehistoric matters, and 

 postage stamps. — M. Louis Giraux, 22 Rue Saint Blaise, Paris. 



Offered, good case of ichthyosaurus, from lias of Lyme 

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

 — M., 56 Clarendon Villas, West Brighton. 



K. Bonnet, 9 Rue Mazagrau, Paris, offers good fossils 

 from the Paris tertiaries in exchange for fossils from all forma- 

 tions, and recent shells. 



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 of specimens with sample. — 

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



Bryum Marrattii, B. calophyllum, B. IVarneum, Hypnum 

 cristi-castrensis, Catoscopiuin nigritum, Buxbaumia aphylla, 

 and a few others, in exchange for microscopic slides. — Geo. 

 Forbes, 7 Graham Place, Dundee. 



Freshwater fishes. Wanted, to correspond with anglers 

 or others who could supply good fresh specimens of trout, 

 roach, perch, pike, &c., suitable for purposes of taxidermy. 

 Would give in exchange preserved specimens in any branch of 

 marine zoology, micro-slides of highest class, scientific books. 

 —J. Sinel, 6 Peel Villas, St. Helier, Jersey. 



Wanted, odonata (dragonfiies) from all parts of the world. 

 Slate desiderata in return. North American odonata for ex- 

 change. — Philip P. Calvert, Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. 



Wanted, entomological store boxes and apparatus in good 

 condition. Exchange secondary or tertiary fossils, or eggs and 

 nests of our common birds. — W. D. Carr, Lincoln. 



Collection of British shells, entomological setting cabinet, 

 collecting box, and store box. Will exchange for books or 

 anything useful. — J. Morton, New Brompton, Kent. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 1890, and January, 1891. 

 Wanted, carboniferous fossils. Send lists to — B. T. Bonser, 

 Colebrooke House, 29 Highbury New Park, London. 



VVanted, to correspond with collectors in Britain and abroad 

 with the view of exchanging birds' eggs in the coming season. 

 Send list of wants and duplicates. Can offer many species o 

 American eggs on British list. — Robert William.s, Croase 

 House, Kingsland, R.S.O. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



"Acids in Practical Geology," by G. A. J. Cole (London: 

 C. H. Griffin & Co.). — " F.-ithers of Biology," by Ch. McRae 

 (London: Percival & Co.). — "The Honey Bee," by T. W. 

 Coward (London: Houlston & Sons). — Wesley's "Nat. Hist, 

 and Scientific Book Circular," No. 105. — " Knowledge." — 

 " American Microscopical Journal." — "American Naturalist." 

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

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

 Midland Naturalist."—" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." — 

 " The Microscope." — "Nature Notes." — "Proceedings of the 

 Geologists' Association." — " Victorian Naturalist." — Dr. C. V. 

 Riley's Report to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (always 

 welcome). — Same author on " Insecticides and means of 

 Applying them to Shade and Forest Trees " (published by 

 ditto). — Dulau's "Catalogue of Zool. and Palseontolog. Lit." — 

 " Brtish Naturalist Catalogue of Land and Freshwater Shells 

 Great Britain," by T. D. A. Cockerell.— " Jourral of Quekett 

 Microscopical Club." — "British Cage Birds," Part 9. — " British 

 Canary Book," Part 9, &c., &c. 



Communications received up to the i2Th ult. from: 



E. B.— A. E.— Dr. A. C— Dr. A. E. G.-E. C— C. W. P.— 

 A. H. B.— E. G. E.— A. E.— L. G.— A. J. J. B— W. L.— 

 S. A. B.— W. H.— Dr. G. C. M.— R. H. H.— A. C— Prof. 

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



F. M. H.— V. A. L.— E. E. G.— F. W.— E. N. L.— F. G. S.— 

 W. B.— W. F.— C. P.— R. S.— W. C— W. J. F.— F. N. W. 

 — L. O. C— W. D. S.— H. R.— T. W. R.— W. A. G.— 

 T. H. B.— J. H.— H. D.— J. F.— H. E.— J. T.— Miss E.— 

 C. H. J. B.— E. B.— E. H. F.-J. A., jun.— Dr. E. De C— 

 H. E.— W. F. K.— M. B. M.— W. D.— M. L. S.— W. J. J.— 

 T. W. C— C. W.— J. B. H.— J. E. L.— G. F.— 1. T.— 

 F. C. M.— H. A. F.— V. C— H. F.— R. G. M.— J. S. W.— 

 A. B— W. T.— Miss L.— E. H. J. E.— J. W. R.— J. B.— 

 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.— J. 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.— 

 C. H. H. W.— P. P. C— P. Q. K.— W. W.— R. W.— B. T. B. 

 — W. D. C— I. M.— R. A.— &c., &c. 



