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HARD WICKE' S S CIENCE- G OSS I P. 



plates: 1880, March and April missing; 18S1, September 

 missing; 1884, January, February, March, and April missing. 

 Also "The Naturalist," 1889 and 1890, all unbound, but clean. 

 Wanted, large flat glass-topped boxes for shells in cabinets. — 

 Lionel E. Adams, Penistone, Yorks. 



Eighty species of British shells, entomological setting- 

 cabinet, collecting-box and store case, to exchange for any- 

 thing useful. — "Lindens," New Brompton, Kent. 



A QUANTITY of duplicate mounts of very choice and rare 

 foraminifera, correctly named, in exchange for cabinet speci- 

 mens of Alston Moor minerals, or works on freshwater and 

 marine algae, or offers. — W. H. Harris, 42 St. Brannock's 

 Road, Ilfracombe. 



British birds' eggs. A long series, all with data, such as 

 osprey, hooded merganser, eagle, sooty tern, long-billed 

 curlew, bufT-backed heron, capercailie, &c., will exchange for 

 insect cabinet. Several dozen N. American bird skins (dated), 

 fine condition, for exchange. Offers to — H. T. Booth, Upcerne 

 Road, Chelsea. 



Wanted, vol. of Science-Gossip for 1872, bo\md in blue 

 cloth, if possible. Please name price, &c. — John Hunt, Lilly- 

 burn Print Works, Milton of Campsie, near Glasgow. 



Wanted, unmounted parasites, polycistines, and other good 

 material, in exchange for choice micro-slides of every descrip- 

 tion. Foreign correspondence solicited. — K. Suter, 5 High- 

 week Road, Tottenham, Middlesex, England. 



What offers for cork setting-boards, zinc collecting-boxes 

 for larva, and light insect collecting-boxes, also Nos. 240-280 

 of SciENCE-Gossii'? Micro-slides or material preferred, or 

 books. — W. E. Watkins, 30 Dalmeny Road, Tufnell Park, N. 

 ». Exchange chemical apparatus — retort stands, tripods, glass 

 tubing, corks, crucibles, &c., for fossils, minerals, or rocks. — 

 J. A. Ellis, I Pomona Place, Fulham, S.W. 



Over one hundred species of beautifully-mounted ferns, 

 comprising most of the rare British sorts (some very rare), in 

 handsome half-bound book, fitting into strong case. What 

 offers? — Joseph Anderson, jun., Aire Villa, Chichester. 



Offered, fifty Scottish mosses, a few very rare ones, all 

 named ; will send list. Will take a copy of Hobkirk's " British 

 Mosses," second edition. — Thomas Wilson, 39 North Church 

 Street, Dundee. 



Offered, British marine shells in exchange for micro-slides, 

 insects, other shells not in collection, or any books on natural 

 history. Send lists of wants and duplicates to — W. D. Rae, 

 9 Claremont Terrace, Alpha Road, Milwall, London, E. 



Wanted, Goebel's "Outlines of Classification and Special 

 Morphology of Plants." Exchange Benson's " New Testa- 

 ment," or classical and scientific works, &c. — J. Wallis, Deal. 



For exchange, twenty back numbers of Sciench-Gossip, 

 also "Naturalist's Gazette," complete, for 1889 and 1890. 

 Wanted, minerals or fossils, or books on minerals or fossils, or 

 what offers? — William Hetherington, Nenthead, Alston Moore, 

 Carlisle. 



Offered, a platinum crucible with capsule cover, Beale's 

 " How to Work with the Microscope," and Cruickshank's 

 "Practical Bacteriology." Wanted, i-inch objective, or 2-inch 

 B, C, or D eye-piece, double nose-piece, or offers in petno- 

 logical slides. — R. M. H. St. Stephen, 25 Fordwych Road, 

 West Hampstead, London, N.W. 



Several hundred British coleoptera for exchange, all carded, 

 correctly named and in fine. condition, including many rare and 

 local species. Wanted, offers of any natural history specimens, 

 apparatus, and books on entomology, conchology, or geologj'. — 

 A. Ford, Claremont House, Upper Tower Road, St. Leonard's- 

 on-Sea, Sussex. 



Wanted, British diptera, named or unnamed, foreign cole- 

 optera, or cabinet cork, in exchange for S. African insects of 

 any order. — R. M. Lightfoot, 134 Bree Street, Cape Town, 

 S. Africa. 



Would any botanist join me in a three v;eeks' botanical 

 expedition to the Sierra Nevada, Granada, in July next? 

 Address — A. Edward Lomax, 56 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool. 



Offered, H. erictorum, vz.x. /aservata, H. va7-iegata, H. 

 caperatay H. ni/escens, H. rotundaia, Z. alleoura, C. nigosa, 

 L.peregra, var. acuminata, and others. Wanted, H. poiitatia, 

 Paludina vivipara, P. liiteri, Acme fusca, or others not in 

 collection. — James Ingleby, Eavestone, Ripon. 



British cryptogams — mosses, seaweeds, lichens, and fungi, 

 correctly named, in exchange for foreign land shells.— T. Rogers, 

 27 Oldham Road, Manchester. 



Pupa ringens, P. >narginata, and var. edentula, V. pygmcra, 

 V.pusilla, K. antivertigo, B. perversa, C. tridens, Z./nhms, 

 Z. cryslallinus, H. pulchella, //. lapicida, S. rivicola, /'. 

 glaber, P. dilatatus, and many others, offered for foreign land 

 shells, or Testacella haliotidea, S. virescens, S. oblonga, H. 

 revelata, P. seca'u, C. biplicata, A. acic-ula, or good vars. of 

 H. nsmoralis and hortensis. — E. Collier, i Heather Bank, 

 Moss Lane East, Manchester. 



Will exchange fifty flint implements for minerals or fossils. 

 — W. Nunney, 29 St. Philip's Road, Dalston, N.E. 



Wanted, latest edition of the "Student's Flora" (Hooker). 

 Apply to — John Connor, Elderslie, near Johnstone, N.B. 



Wanted, a small collection of British mosses and lichens ; 

 fossils given in exchange. — A. Tarver, 34 Croydon Grove, 

 West Croydon. 



Will exchange micro-slides for works on microscope, 01 

 exchange slides lor others. — Piatt, Eastrop, Basingstoke. 



Wanied, good specimens of Littorina obtusata, var. ornata. 

 Will give Bulimtis acutus, var. bizona.— V^eM. H. Milnes, 

 Winster, Derby. 



Offered, Scalaria clathraUtla, Venerupis iris, Mytilus 

 edulis, var. pallida, Cyclostrema cutlerianum, C. serpuloidcs, 

 Spirialis retroversus, Eulima bilineata, E. distorta, E.polita, 

 Odostotnia interstincta, O. spiralis, O. nivosa, Adeorbis sub- 

 carinaius, Rissoa Zetlandica, R. calathus, R fulgida, Skenea 

 planorbis, Pleurobranchus membranacea, and other rare shells. 

 Wanted in exchange, any of the following: — Trophon barvu- 

 censis, Natica helicoides, Leda caudata, Pholadida- papyracea, 

 Clio pyramidata, Aplysia depilans, Fusus /enestratus, Triton 

 cutaceus, Pleurotoma striolata, P. nivalis, Jeffreysia globu- 

 laris. Area pectenculoides, Odostomia /enestratus, O. dia- 

 phana, O. minima, Aclis Walleri, A. gvlsonig, Velutina 

 plicatilis,^ Janthina exigtta, Buccinum Humphrey sianum, 

 Nassa nitida, Cylichna nitidula. Vertigo Moulinsiana, V. 

 pusilla, and Pecten niveus. Lists exchanged ; correspondence 

 invited.— A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, Teign- 

 mouth, S. Devon. 



Wanted, second-hand machine for preparing slides of rocks 

 for microscope. Exchange in fossils, rocks, shells, books, &c. — 

 Rev. John Hawell, Ingleby Grcenhow Vicarage, Northallerton. 



Wanted, rock and diatom slides, trilobites, coal ferns from 

 coal-measures, also British and foreign stamps, in exchange for 

 rare marine, land and freshwater shells, and microscopic 

 objects, &c. — T. E. Sclater, Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Wanted, unbound, the "Zoologist" for 1880, and for 

 January and February, 1881. State condition and price.— 

 Chas. Oldham, Ashton-on-Mersey. 



I have Meyer's " Modern Theories of Chemistry," Foster 

 and Balfour's "Embryology," Howe's "Biological Atlas," and 

 MacAIpine's "Zoological Atlas." Will any one give me geo- 

 logical literature, fossils, minerals, rock-slides, or botanical 

 slides in exchange? — Wilmore, Trawden, Lancashire. 



Offered, Zonites e.xcavatus, Ancylus lacustris, Helix 

 pygmiFa, and many others. Wanted, Helix 7temoralis, vars. 

 castanea, olivacea, roseolabiata, albolabiata, hyaloyonata, 

 also vars. (named) of many other land shells. — A. Hartley, 

 8 Cavendish Road,' Idle, near Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Larv.*:, pupa, and imagos of Tussur silk moth (Mylitta), 

 and American moth (Promethea), for exchange. Wanted, 

 exotic pupse of imagos of moths, butterflies, or beetles. — Mark 

 L. Sykes, Eldon Place, Patricroft, near Manchester. 



Wanted, a cheap second-hand microscope, with one eye- 

 piece ; no objectives needed; rack motion and fine screw 

 adjustment, with case. Send particulars to — Rev. A. C. Smith, 

 Crowboro C^ross, Sussex, or state requirements. 



Collection of British .coleoptera, in four cases, on cards, 

 first-class setting, about 200 species, four in a series. Exchange 

 photographic apparatus, or offers. — F. Emsley, 98 West Street, 

 Leeds. 



To osteologists. Offered, jaws or beak of parrot fish (can 

 supply part of spiny skin), also beak of albatross. Will ex- 

 change for a few exotic shells. — W. Jones, jun., 27 Mayton 

 Street, Holloway, London, N. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



" Botany, a Concise Manual for Students," by Alex. John- 

 stone (London and Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland). — "The 

 Medical Annual, 1891." — "The Fishes of North America," 

 Part I.— "British Cage Birds," |Part 12.— "The Spectrum," 

 No. 2, Vol. I. — "Annual Report of Museum of American 

 Archaeology." — " Memoir and Letters of Sydnev Gilchrist 

 Thomas," by R. W. Burnie (London : John Murr.iy). — 

 " Plochionus and Scymnus," by I. iC. Duffy. — "The Essex 

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

 Scientific Book Circular." — " 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." 

 — "The Naturalist's Annual and Directory for 1891."— 

 "Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales," &c., &c. 



Communications received up to the ioth ult. from : 

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

 F. W. F.— W. S.— L. E. A.-W. G.— H. G. D.— I. G.— 

 J. E. L.— G. W. R.— H. T. B.— W. I. S.-Dr. A. C— Dr. A. I. 

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

 J. H.— H. W. D.— M. E. P.— J. A. E.— R. C— E. E.— 

 W. W. R.— T. W.— J. E. L.— J. A., jun.— H. M— W. H — 

 A. T.— W. E.— T. E. S.— A. J. R. S.— T. R.— W. H. N— 

 J. C— W. J.— I. W. M.— I. W.-G. D.— R. de H. S. S.— 

 M. E. T.— W. J. A— J. I.— R. M. L.— T. J.— A. F.— H. P. 

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

 — H. E. G.— S. P.— J. E. G.— M. L. S.— A. W.— A. C. S.— 



E. de C— F. E.— C. 0.— G. A. H.-B. L. H.— J. W. W.— 



F. J. B.— H. W. B.— A, M.-&C., &c 



