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small moth, Retiniii Buoliana, one of the family Tortricidt?, 

 common wherever pine-trees grow. There are particulars in 

 Loudon's translation of Kollar's" Treatise on Injurious Insects ;" 

 and a paper by Westwood on the allied species, R . turionana, 

 of similar habits, in the "Gardener's Chronicle" for 1850, 

 No. 44, would also be of interest. Nothing short of cutting off 

 and burning the infected shoots while the grub is in them, could 

 be of any use. 2. As to getting rid of Goat-moths. Picking the 

 larva by hand would be easy, as they are so large ; itwould do 

 little harm to cut away the outer wall of their galleries, if not 

 too deep. Injecting the carbolic acid with a strong syringe 

 would certainly bring them out. 



E. Duprey. — The " dark purple mineral in small veins of 

 syenite " is the violet-coloured variety of fluor spar, which in 

 Derbyshire is found in large nodular masses, and locally de- 

 nominated "Blue John." 



H. D. — Your fungi were so withered and dry when they 

 reached us, through not being properly packed, that it was 

 utterly impossible to make them out. 



R. A. Bullen. — The banana (Musa sapientum) belongs to 

 the order Musaceae. " Brazilian tea" is composed of the leaves 

 of Stachytarjiha jamaicensis, a member of the Verbenaces. 



W. H. L. — Your specimens are (1) one of the lime-secreting 

 sea-weeds (Corallina officinalis) ; (2) a Bryozoan (Membrani- 

 pora pilosa). The form of " cup-moss " (C. pixidata) you 

 mention is not uncommon. Try a little benzine for removing 

 the mould. 



C. H. Gastrel. — Thanks for your interesting specimen. 



J. A. — We will see to the insects being named in due course. 

 The best book is Rye's " British Beetles," published by 

 L. Reeve & Co., price \Os. 6d. 



E. W. A.— Get Lindsay's "British Lichens." There is a 

 work now issuing on " American Characese," but we are not 

 aware of any special work on British species. 



T. S. Smithson. — Your plant is the white variety of the 

 common milk-wort (Polygala vulgaris). Lindley & Hutton's 

 "Fossil Flora" contains the best figures of coal plants. The 

 chapter on " Coal " in the work just published by Macmillan on 

 that subiect, will give you a capital account of the structures 

 and affinities of coal plants. 



H. Pearce. — Botanical mounting paper may be obtained of 

 J. Gardner, 426 Oxford Street. Did you see the advertisement 

 notice of the "Botanist's Portable Collecting Press" in last 

 number of Science-Gossip? 



J. A. Wheldon. — Your mosses are : 1. Polytrichum junipe- 

 rinum ; 2. Hypnum cuspidatum ; 3. Hypnum rutabulum ; 

 4. Funaria hygrometrica ; 5. Leptobryum pyrifor7ne. 



A. P. — Your moss is Catrtpylopus turfaceus. 



W. E. Green. — The mosses sent in are as follows: 1. Bryum 

 /allots; 2. Trichostomum flavo-virt/is ; 3. Dichodontium 

 pcllucidum ; Bryum (young, probably nutans) ; 5. Hypnum 

 co7ifertum ; 6. H. cnpressiformc, var. resupinatum. — R. B. 



M. Medhurst. — The specimens belong to a species of water- 

 mite (Acarina), but they are in too fragmentary a state to tell 

 which species. Could you send us a clean mounted specimen? 



L. C. 7th ed., in exchange for an equal number of any of the 

 following :— 185, 206, 560, 634, 858, 1190, 1383, 1387, 1418, 1462, 

 Z S^S : 1 537. ^S. '55°. '639. 164°. 1641. I 6S7. i°6i» and 1667. 

 William West, 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



Transparent sections from the coal formation showing 

 macrospores, microspores, and other fossil vegetable tissues, in 

 exchange for well-mounted recent vegetable tissues, sections 

 of leaves stained or otherwise. — John Butterworth, Goats, Shaw, 

 near Oldham. 



Will exchange slides of fossil fish remains, for good pocket 

 lens, section cutter, frog plate, live cage ; correspondents invited. 

 — Joseph Taylor, Shire Moor, via Earsdon. Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne 



Wanted to purchase second-hand copies of vols. vi. and vii. 

 of Science-Gossip, bound or unbound. — H. Crowther, The 

 Museum, Leeds. 



I shall be glad to receive lists of foreign Uniosfrom any one 

 having them for sale or exchange. — G. Sherriff Tye, 62 Villa 

 Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. 



Wanted to complete Science-Gossip volumes for 1874, 1875, 

 1876, and 1877. Will give cash or state wants. — T. F. U., 

 233 Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. 



Pupa ringens for good British shells. — Rev. W. C. Hey, 

 Clifton, York. 



Duplicates of the undernamed good British land and fresh- 

 water shells, offered in exchange for numerous desiderata — 

 Limntzus Burnetii -same, var. lacustris (Loch Skene speci- 

 mens taken this season). L. involutus, Succinea oblonga, 

 I'ertigo pusilla, V. substriata, V. alpestris, V. mitiutissima, 

 V. moulinsiana, V. venetzii. — W. Sutton, High Claremont, 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Fresh collected cluster-cups on Rumex acetosa (common 

 Sorrel) all mounted. Offered for well-mounted slides. Send 

 list to select from. — G. Garret, Harland House, Wherstead Road, 

 Ipswich. 



Packets of foreign stamps offered in exchange for any good 

 object of natural history. — F. S. L., 2 Oakland Villas, Redland, 

 Bristol. 



"London Catalogue," 7th ed. — 59, 140, 158, 179, 245, 295, 

 297, 321, 333, 411, 1239, 1274, 1401, 1595, 1601. for exchange; 

 send lists of duplicates to R. H. Hawkins, Hillside, Hastings. 



Eggs of the kestrel in exchange for eggs of the cuckoo, side- 

 blown. — J. B. Pilley, '2 High Town, Hereford. 



For Uromyces intnisa (lady's mantle brand) or Pucciniaglo- 

 merata (ragwort brand), send stamped envelope to T. Brittain, 

 52 Park Street, Green Heys, Manchester. No exchange 

 required. 



Shells, miscellaneous collection, land, fresh-water, and 

 marine (named and unnamed), in exchange for natural history 

 books. — Henry Hyde, 2 Ellesmere Street, Regent Road, Man- 

 chester. 



Wanted, Lyell's "Student's Manual," and "Principles of 



Geology" for " Palaeontographical Monographs," Wright's 



" Cretaceous Echinoderms," parts i, 4, 8, part 2 " Fossil Shells 



I London Clay," " Fossil Radiaria of Crag and London Clay," 



&c— E. A. Walford, 72 High Street, Banbury. 



EXCHANGES. 



For leaf of Ela-agnus Japonicus variegata send other un- 

 mounted material ; some duplicate slides to exchange. — The 

 Lindens, New Brompton, Kent. 



A collector, who has some duplicates, will send twenty 

 specimens of rocks and minerals on receipt of fourteen pence ; 

 carriage paid to Manchester. Apply to E. Jones, Poplar Grove, 

 Sale, near Manchester. 



Prepared tubes and packets of very interesting material, 

 mostly marine, on approval ; exchange in good slides, photo 

 lens, camera telescope, books, &c. — T. McGann, Burren, Ireland. 



Eggs of bird parasites, a set of about twenty different kinds, 

 to include those figured in Science-Gossip of June 1, 1870, 

 required in exchange for purely Indian slides, mounted or 

 for unmounted material. — C. Liddell, " Englishman " Office, 

 Calcutta. 



Wanted, the following medals : — 1st Burmese medal, Cabul, 

 Candahar, distinguished conduct, Hyderabad, Jellalabad 

 (crown). Jellalabad (victory), Chuznee— Cabul, Meeanee, Hy- 

 derabad, meritorious service, Meeanee, Pemniar Star, Serin- 

 gapatam, Victoria Cross. Fossils, minerals, British or foreign 

 shells, or money for the same ; state price, to A. J. R. Sclater, 

 Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Wanted, a|few fine specimens of crystallised minerals and 

 ores. Offered upwards of a hundred species of British marine 

 shells, from Jersey ; some very rare. Lists exchanged. — 

 E. Duprey, Jersey. 



Seven-guinea electric machine for fossils, micro slides, or 

 books on natural history. — W. Tylar, 165 Well Street, 

 Birmingham. 



Well-finished slides offered of BatracJiospermitm monili- 

 forme, Scytonema myochrous, Volvox_ global or, _ Coleochaete 

 scutata, various micro-fungi, wood sections, &c, in exchange 

 for the following materials : — cleaned Polycistina, cleaned and 

 named diatoms, or micro-photographs of any kind. — William 

 West, 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



Wanted, twelve typical specimens, each of Nos. 128 and 145 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" The Solar Illumination of the Solar System." By Collyns 

 Simon, LL.D. London: Williams and Norgate. 



" Popular Science Review." July. 



" Midland Naturalist." July. 



" Scottish Naturalist." July. 



" Canadian Entomologist." June. 



" American Naturalist." June. 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." June. 



" Botanische Zeitung." June. 



"Potter's American Monthly." June. 



" Science News." June. 



" Greenhouse Flowers." Part ii. 



"Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society." 

 Tart iv , vol. ii. 



" Ben Brierly's Journal." 



" Land and Water." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to 12TH ult. from :— 

 C. P.— J. H. K.— A. J. R. S.— Dr. J. M--H. G. W.— J. L.— 



E. D.-C. L.— H. D. B.— H. F. B.-W. C. K.— E. Y. L.— 

 J. T. C. W.— T. W.— A. R. G.— J. A. A.— Prof. P.— T. G. H. 

 —J. G.— T. B. L.— C. F. W. T. W.— R. F. O.— D. H.— 



F. A. B.— W. J. M.— W. B. N.— C. P.— J. P.— A. H. H.— 

 H. M. H.-G. S. D.— J. F. R.-G. G.— J. A.— F. H. A.— 

 E. E.— E. D. M.— G. C— E. W. A.— F. S. L.— R. R.— T. S. S. 

 —J. H. H.— J. P. B.— W. R.— H. P.— H. H.— S. D. T.— 

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

 — W. J.— H. E. W.-W. S.-G. P.— J. F. G.— T. B.— 

 E. B. K. W.— W. H. H.— T. F. U.— W. W.— A. C. S— 

 S. I. O. O'M.— J. B.— W. B. R.— G. A. S.— W. H. L.— E. M. 

 — W. H. M.— J. T.— H. C.— G. S.T.— T. C— W. H. L— J. M. 

 — E. A. W.— R. F. Z.—W. D.— J. G.— M. M— H. H. B.— 

 H. H.-G. F.— R. E. C. S.— W. H. C— J. F.-&0 



