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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



R. Renton. — Accept our best thanks for specimen of Pota- 

 mogeton zizis. 



Mkdicus. — As you will have seen, the "American Quarterly- 

 Journal of Microscopy" is unfortunately to be discontinued at 

 the end of the present year. The back numbers might be 

 obtained through Messrs. Triibner, Ludgate Hill. 



W. H. Littleton. — The labels for geological specimens are 

 usually written out ; we are not aware of any printed ones. 

 Lists of British coleoptera for labelling may be had of E. W. 

 Janson, 28 Museum Street, London, W.C. 



W. A. K. (Salford;. — It is the hemp nettle (Caleopsis versi- 

 color), often found in potato fields, abundant about Warrington. 



E. D. B. (Sidmouth). — It would be difficult to name the plant 

 with certainty from your short description, but we should 

 imagine it would be the privet (Ligustrum vnlgare) you saw. 



T. L. (Heywood). — The specimen sent is a common British 

 plant, yarrow (Achillea millefolium), though the pretty variety 

 you enclose is rare. 



J. B. B. (Dudley). — We never met with the Symphytum with 

 pink flowers, although the petals, soon after the ovules are 

 fertilised, often assume a pinky tinge ; it is probably -S 1 . patens 

 (Sibth.). 



C. H. G. (Clifton). — The flower is the sea lavender (Statice 

 caspia, Willd.). The leaves of the tree were too much withered 

 to identify. Could you send a dried specimen ? 



F. B. (Cambridge). — Your specimen is the Phyteuma pauci- 

 flora. It is rare ; on the higher hills it becomes more frequent. 

 Vide " Holiday Rambles on High Lands." 



R. F. Z. — Some of the leaves were attacked by the Aregma 

 obtusatum, a small microscopic fungus, called a brand. 



F. C. K. (Aberdeen). — The species enclosed is the hound's 

 tongue (Cynoglossum officinale), not very common. 



F. H A. (Fishbourne). — We are not sufficiently acquainted 

 with Clienopodium paganum to venture an opinion ; we should 

 name it C. viride (L.). 



T. G. H. — We believe it is a very rare species, the spider 

 orchis (Ophrys fncifera, Sm.), at all events it is not the frog 

 orchis (Habe?iaria) as you have been led to suppose ; it is worth 

 looking for ; try to find good specimens next year. 



Erythr.«a. — A very luxuriant example of E. pulchella (Fr.). 



EXCHANGES. 



A few beautiful plant hairs, and other slides. Also Pepper's 

 " Cyclopaedic Science," in exchange'for Davies' "On Mounting," 

 Slack's, or other good work on pond life. — Jas. Blackshaw, 

 57 Cross Street, South Blakenhall, Wolverhampton. 



Wanted, mammalian skulls. Offered recent shells, serpents 

 in spirit, fossils, or osteological help. — T. Stock, 16 Colville 

 Place, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, a good micrometer, in exchange for pair of nearly 

 new stage forceps, with objects (approval). — E. Clover, Spring- 

 field Lodge, Sudbury, Suffolk. 



Wanted, Irish and European Potamogetons ; and European 

 Orobanches, for rare British plants. — A. B., 107 High Street, 

 Croydon, Surrey. 



Eggs of the lesser black-backed and black-headed gulls for 

 exchange. Unaccepted offers not answered. — E. F. Bell, n 

 James Terrace, Tait Street, Carlisle. 



Clean specimens of soundings, containing " orbulina," &c. 

 (with localities), mounted ; also slides of fossils, foraminifera, 

 &c. : to exchange for marine deposits or geological material, 

 not necessarily microscropic. — E. Lovett, Holly Mount, Croy- 

 don. 



For cuticle of Yucca send a stamped directed envelope to 

 W. H. Gomm, Waltham Abbey, Essex. 



Full and easy directions to extract jaw and teeth of blow- 

 fly in exchange for any well-mounted slide of insect dissections 

 — sections of coal or spines, Foraminifera or Polycistina. — 

 G. H. Wrapson, Albert Road, Southsea. 



British shells, plants, and mosses (correctly named), or 

 living plants of Trichomanes radicans, and fine specimen of 

 Todea s?/pcrba, in exchange for foreign shells. — T. Rogers, 

 27 Oldham Road, Manchester. 



Well-mounted slides of Arachnoidiscus Ekrenbergii, 

 "selected," for other well-mounted slides: diatoms, para- 

 sites, or geological sections preferred. — H. Morland, Cranford, 

 Middlesex. 



Wanted, Bentham's "Illustrated British Flora," in fair 

 condition, in exchange for Cook's " Fungi," 2 vols., uncut. — 

 J. C. White, Montpellier, B. Salterton, Devon. 



Have Science-Gossip for 1872 and 1878, unbound, to ex- 

 change for diatomaceous material or slides. — A. Alletsee, 11 

 Foley Street, Langham Place, W. 



" London Catalogue" offered. Nos. 12, 33, 49, 79, 93, 96, 

 i"» "3. z6 S. 2 66, 277, 316, 591, 714, 727, 803, 1003, 1020, 1036, 

 1129, 1259, 1310, 1323, 1504, in exchange for any of the following: 

 180, 197, 204, 374, 411, 421, 518, 598, 529, 538, 864, 907, 913, 

 928, 929, 1236, 1282, 1292, 1299, 1431, 1522, 1545, 1610, i6ii, 

 1621, 1622, 1631, 1632. — W. Jones, 32 Manchester Street, 

 Oldham. 



Wanted, a copy of Stark's "Popular History of British 

 Mosses." Reply, stating price, to S. M. P., 2 Westerhall Villas, 

 Weymouth. 



Mosses, about 100 Somersetshire species in exchange for 

 others. Lists exchanged. — W. E. Green, 24 Triangle, Bristol. 



Wanted, common objects for the microscope, mounted or 

 unmounted, in exchange for mounted objects. Send list to 

 Amateur, care of W. H. Symons, 2 Queen's Terrace, St. John's 

 Wood, N.W. 



One or two works on entomology, list sent. Desiderata, 

 " Duncan's British Moths," or " Wild Flowers," by Shirley 

 Hibberd, published by Routledge. — W. Thomas, care of 

 Bayley, Esq., Billing Road, Northampton. 



I have a few slides of Japanese bibulous paper, splendid 

 polariscope object, to exchange for other well-mounted micro- 

 scopic slides. — W. G. Daish, Melville Street, Ryde, I.W. 



Lyei.l's "Principles of Geology," 9th ed., and Darwin's 

 " Descent of Man," 2nd ed., for standard works on geology, 

 biology, &c— J. A. Lee, Todmorden, Lane. 



Foraminiferous deposit from jhe west coast of Ireland, in 

 exchange for good micro objects (mounted) of any description. — 

 Henry Hyde, 2 Ellesmere Street, Regent Road, Salford. 



A great variety of sections of wood, pith, and other vegetable 

 structures, in exchange for mosses, etc. Exchange lists. — 

 H. J. R., 184 High Street, Brentford. 



Wanted, 20, 33, 79, 97, 131, 133, 165, 206, 218, 277, 452, 

 476» S I 5. 615, 841b, 84ft, 868, 1057, 1057b, 1058, 1084, 1092, 1160, 

 1169, 1468, 1537, in " London Catalogue of British Plants," for 

 other plants. — H. Searll, no Old Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. 



Haldon greensand, and other fossils ; also several hundred 

 polished specimens of madrepores ; iooo sections of corals for 

 microscopists, and shell sections. Wanted a variety of good 

 foreign cones, no matter if the lips of cones are a little broken. 

 Shells must not be too small.— A. J. R. Sclater, Mineralogist, 

 4 Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Wanted, English and foreign colepotera and lepidoptera, as 

 English pupae of moths and butterflies, in exchange for foreign 

 stamps and named British plants. — F. S. L., 2 Oakland Villas, 

 Redland, Bristol. 



Works now publishing ; 51 parts of Chambers's " Encyclo- 

 paedia," 30 of "Familiar Wild Flowers," 22 of "Science for 

 All," 18 of " European Butterflies," for good microscope, or 

 dissolving views lantern, or chemical or electrical apparatus. — 

 J. S. Ilsby, 6 Trevethen Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall. 



Cornish minerals, and crystals, for magic lantern slides, or 

 chemical or electrical apparatus. — J. S. Ilsby, 6 Trevethen 

 Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall. 



Palates of shell fish, well-mounted and stained, in exchange 

 for shells, moths, butterflies, birds' eggs, and minerals named 

 and localised. — A. D. Innes, 10 Canon Street, Edinburgh. 



"London Catalogue," 7th ed., 85, 626. Potamogeton 

 zizis, m and K, and others, in exchange for plants or mosses. — 

 R. Renton, Fans, Earlston, N.B. 



Will send a number of caterpillars, Bombyx rubi, by sending 

 box and stamps for return. — R. Renton, Fans, Earlston, N.B. 



Beautiful groups of preserved ferns and flowers, quite art 

 gems, which I wish to exchange for micro slides, lepidoptera, 

 zoophytes, seaweeds, or other natural history objects of interest. 

 — M. Medhurst, 1 Gladstone Road, Liverpool 



Fine series of igneous and metamorphic rocks of Charnwood 

 Forest ; also various minerals and fossils, in exchange for similar 

 specimens from other localities. — F. G. S., 3 Melbourne Road, 

 Leicester. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"A Dictionary of Plant Names." By James Britten and 

 Robert Holland. Part i. London : Trl'ibner & Co. 



" Lectures on the Geology of Leighton Buzzard." By E. W. 

 Lewis. A. P. Muddiman, Leighton Buzzard. 



" Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 1877-78." 



"Transactions of the Norwich Naturalists' Society," Vol. iii., 

 part 5. 



"Proceedings of the Norwich Geological Society," Vol. 

 part 3. 



" Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society 

 Vol. ii., part 5. 



"Midland Naturalist." September. 



" Land and Water." September. 



"Journal of Applied Science." September. 



"American Naturalist." September. 



" Botanische Zeitung." 



&c. &c. &c. 



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 B. L.— H. M.— A. D.— W. J. H.— J. C. W.— F. C— D. D.— 

 W. H. G.— G R. V.— W. D.— F. B— E. E.— W. D.— W. H. G. 

 —A. B.— E. F. B.— E. C— G. M. L.— A. M. C. T.-C. Mel. 

 —J. A. W.— J. P.— E. L.— J. B.— Y. M— T. S.— W. I.— 

 J. P. T— J. H. A. J.— W. H. L.— W. H. S.— S. M. P.— 

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 — H. S.— J. S. B.— H. J. R.— W.M.— H. C. D.— J. S.— W. T 

 —J. S. I.— F. S. L — R. R.— W. S.— J. W. O.— C. H. D.— 

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