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HARDWICKKS SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Miss C— Address Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., Ashfield, 

 College Road, Whalley Range, Manchester, re "Botanical 

 Record Club." 



A. BoDiNGTON. — Your paper is duly to hand, and (although 

 lengthy) shall appear in due course. 



H. D. G. — Mr. Harcourt Bath's little book on British 

 dragonflies does not possess coloured plates. It is a very cheap 

 and good book, although the woodcut illustrations are not of 

 the best kind. 



A. V. Bennhtto. — Your offer of exchange is inserted just as 

 it came ; but, as you will see, there is no address. Pkase 

 send it to the Editor. 



R. R. T.— Get Gosse's "Marine Zoology," in two vols.; 

 also Landsborough's " British Zoophytes" (coloured plates). 



T. W. X.— Spencer Thomson's "Walks and Wild Flowers" 

 is an excellent and exciting book of its kind, leading many to 

 botanical studies of a more serious character. 



Jamfs p. Dixon (Northampton).— Mr. Beeby Thompson 

 has published an excellent and important geological work on 

 the geology of your neighbourhood. 



EXCHANGES. 



Net, setting-boards, collecting and store box, books, &c. 

 What offers in useful exchange ?—W. I. Weston, Beckley, 

 Sussex. 



Helix lamellata, Piipa ringens, and numerous other species 

 offered for varieties of British land and freshwater shells. 

 Also wanted. Continental and foreign land and freshwater 

 shells.— Rev. John Hawell, Ingleby Greenhow Vicarage, 

 Northallerton. 



Wanted, eggs of raven, heron, puffin, teal, sea-mew, land- 

 rail, golden plover, in exchange for British shells and seaweeds, 

 or eggs of lesser black-backed gu'l, moorhen, pheasant, 

 partridge, jackdaw, carrion crow, kestrel, hawk, and others. — 

 A. V. Bennetto. 



New micro-spectroscope, by Browning, 7/. Also dissolving 

 apparatus of best construction, including oxy-hydrogen micro- 

 scope, 25/., including slides, &c. Particulars to intending 

 purchasers. .Address- Capt. S., Godstone, Surrey. 



The following starfish with several crustaceans, also land, 

 fresh-water, and marine shells [Pahnipes jiiembranaceus, As- 

 tronyx Loveni, Cribella rosea, Cribella oculata, Solaster 

 papposa, Goniaster eq7iestris ; ditto, with 6 rays, &c. &c.), in 

 good condition, ready for cabinet, in exchange for small insect 

 cabinet duplicate cases, good works on British insects, or what 

 offers? Send lists to W. D. Rae, 9, Claremont Terrace, 

 Alpha Road, Milwall, London, E. 



Anne Pratt's "Flowering Plants, Grasses, and Ferns of Great 

 Britain," 6 vols., published by Warne & Co., what offers? — 

 Linden, New Brompton, Kent. 



Wanted, Science-Gossif, from commencement to i88g 

 inclusive. — E. Pratt, Worthendene, Streatham Common, S.W. 

 Wanted, an entomological cabinet with six to ten drawers. 

 — W. F. K., 33, London Road, Maldon. 



What offers for 60 micro slides, also for an electrical plate 

 machine, 12 in., complete, with fittings ? Wanted, good rnam- 

 malian remains from any formation.— Geo. E. East, jun., 

 241, Evering Road, Upper Clapton, N.E. 



Offered, shells, corals, polyzoa, serpula, sponges, banded 

 flint, wood, geodes, chalcedony, spicuhs, rotalia, lituola, and 

 other micro objects from the chalk, in exchange for minerals, 

 recent corals, &c.— W. Gamble, 2, West Street, New Brompton, 

 Kent. 



Wanted, the vols, for 1869 and 1870 of the "Quarterly 

 Journal of Microscopical Science," and any other odd volumes. 

 Will give a collection of 300 or more British mosses in ex- 

 change.— J. Cash, Hereford Street, Sale, Manchester. 



A NUMBER of botanical and histological micro-slides in 

 exchange for others on zoology, or cash. — Apply to R. J. S. 

 Wood, Seaview, Rosscarbery, co. Cork, Ireland. 



Offered, Xylophaga dorsalis. Wanted, T. cranium, 

 Argiope (all). Lepton (all), Cardiuin papillosum, Asiarie 

 tompressa, Psam. costnlata, Donax politus, Nesera (all), 

 Vemis casina, V. striatula, Aclis (all), Eulimella (all), Stylifer, 

 Adeorbis, Torellia, Triton, Columbella, Marginella, Uvula, 

 Accra astyris. Bulla, Aplysia, Pleurobranchus.— J. Smith, 

 Monkreddmg, Kilwinning. 



Lantern slides, illustr-iting geology, microscopy, &c., 

 wanted for nicely-finished micro slides of whole insects, &c. — 

 J. W. Neville, Wellington Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. 



The undersigned would be glad to communicate with any- 

 one who has done some work among Desmids. — C. O. Sonntag, 

 38, Maxwell Road, PoUokshields, Glasgow. 



Wanted, exchange for rough materials, insects, snakes, 

 ^c, of Burmah, for books on microscopy. Beck's tutn-table 



(or Aylward's), writing diamond, histological or other mounted 

 slides, also a dissecting microscope with instruments ; a fair 

 exchange given if in good serviceable order. I shall be very 

 happy to communicate with subscribers of Science-Gossip to 

 exchange ideas or material.— W. F. Crews, co. F. F. & Co., 

 Rangoon. 



Wanted, rare British birds' eggs, side-blown. Will give in 

 exchange a very nice aquarium, "The Entomologist," from 

 1883 to 1850, the " Field Club" for 1890, also British butterflies 

 and moths, and several good breeding-cages for same. — T. 

 Mottershan, 11 Manchester Street, Nottingham. 



Polished geological specimens, rare British shells, rock 

 specimens, thin sections of corals and sponges ready for 

 mounting, recent objects. Wanted, Isocardia cor, and well- 

 mounted slides of rock and diatomacaea. — T. E. Sc'ater, Bank 

 Street, Teignmouth. 



Will exchange five hundred different monograms for eggs 

 of sea birds. ^Fred. Soydell, 19 Chaucer Road, Acton, W. 



Would any one having any duplicate natural history speci- 

 mens or curiosities to spare, towards the formation of a small 

 school museum, kindly communicate with J. A. Ellis, i Pomona 

 Place, Fulham, S.W.? 



Aclis iinica, Eulima hilineata, Euliina polita, Eiditna 

 distoria, Pleurobranchus memhranacea, Scalaria clathratula, 

 Cyclostreina serpuloidcs, Cyclosirema Cuilerianum, Odo- 

 stoinia interstincta, Venerapis iris. Spiralis reiroversus, 

 Odostomia spiralis, Odostomia nivosa, Adeorbis subcarinatus, 

 Rissoa Zetlandica, Rissoa calaihits, Rissoa fulgida, Torna- 

 iella/asciata. Mytilus edulis, var. pilliJa, Skenea plavorbis. 

 What offers?— A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, 

 Teignmouth. 



Wanted, books on literary history, or biographies, in ex- 

 change for Dana's "Text-Book of Mineralogy," and Strick- 

 land's "Memoirs and Scientific Writings," by Jardine.— R. 

 McCully, 53 Ling Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 



Wanted, good mineral specimens ; volcanic rocks, Cambrian 

 and Silurian fos^ils given in exchange. — W. H. Banks, Ridge- 

 bourne, Kington, Herefordshire. 



Larv.e of lepidoptera wanted, all kinds, for purposes of 

 examination. — J. K. Homer, Townshend House, Sedgley, 

 Dudley. 



Wanted, "The Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science" 

 for October, 1S86; also fresh or spirit specimen of Coronella 

 lirvis. — R. McKenzie Skinner, The Hollies, Shornden, St. 

 Leonards-on-Sea. 



Wanted, a few specimens of Helix pisana, lapicida, ob- 

 voluta, any Vertigo, Clausilia biplicaia, Rolphii, Acme linenta, 

 Ccecilianella acicula, Cary. minimum, and any vars. of same ; 

 offered in exchange, "The Conchologist " for 1891. — W. E. 

 CoUinge, loS Woodsley Road, Leeds. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE, 



"Handbook of the London Geological Field Class" (London: 

 George Philip & Son). — " Our Country Flowers," by W. J. 

 Gordon (London: Day & Son). — "Among the Butterflies," by 

 E. G. Johns (London: Isbister & Co). — "Outlines of Field 

 Geology," by Archibald Geikie, 4th edition (London : Mac- 

 millan & Co). — "A Summary of the Darwinian Theory of the 

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

 Francis). — "Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society," 

 June. — "Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club," July. — 

 "The Human Epic," by J. F. Rowbotham (London: Kegan 

 Paul). — "British Cage Birds," Parts 13, 14. and 15 (London: 

 Upcott Gill). — "Annual Report North Staffordshire Field 

 Club." — " President's Address to the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales."—" The Microscope."—" The American Monthly 

 Micro. Journal." — " American Naturalist." — " Canadian Ento- 

 mologist."— " The Naturalist."— The Botanical Gazette."— 

 " The Gentleman's Magazine."—" The Midland Naturalist."— 

 "The Kssex Naturalist." — "The Garner." — " Feuille des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes." — "Journal of Microscopy," &c., &c. 



Communications received up to the 32th ult. fkom: 

 J. S.— A. M.— R. C. C— I. C. S.— M. E. P.— W. T. L.- 

 H. G. W. A.-H. R.— J. E. L.— H. J. T.-F. P. P.— H. D. T. 

 — C. O. S.— J. H. G.— D. B.— T. S. K.— W. O. W.-A. M.— 

 W. M.— H. R.— J. T.— C. B.— E. A.— J. W. N.— H. D.— 

 F. F. S.— W. P.— W. D. R.— B. C. R.— J. S.— F. H. D.— 



F. B.— R. J. S. W.— F. W. W.— J. C— E. M.— E. P.— 

 W. F. K.— G. E. E.— W. G.— R. E. S.— G. S. S.— M. A. Y.— 

 J. K. H.-F. J. P.— T. E. S.— A. T. R. S.-W. F. C— 



G. E. C.-R. Mc C.-W. H. B.— A. J. J.-G. M.-J. A. E.— 

 A. L.— W. W.— Dr. A. J. H. C— E. B— F. B.— J. M.— 

 H. G. W. A.— F. S. H.— Rev. H. F.— G. D.— F. T.— A. H. S. 

 —h. L.-R. McK. S.-R. C. C— W. E. C, &c., &c. 



