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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



EXCHANGES. 



Well-mounted slides of pigeon despatch, used during the 

 siege of Paris, in exchange for two slides of interest, also well- 

 mounted. — L. Hawkins, Hillside, Hastings. 



Wanted, good slides, in exchange for well-mounted slides of 

 "Challenger" sounding. — H. R. 85 Worcester Street, Higher 

 Broughton, Manchester. 



Wanted, the second volume of ' Recreative Science.' Any 

 one having a copy for disposal will oblige by addressing (stating 

 price) as above. — Charles Butterworth, 88 Sandy Lane, Shaw. 



Wanted, named teeth of fish from Old Red Sandstone of 

 Scotland ; interesting objects given in exchange. — W. H. Harris, 

 44 Partridge Road, Cardiff. 



Dredging. A gentleman who is going on a dredging cruise 

 round the British Isles during the ensuing summer will be glad 

 to hear from any one willing to accompany him. — C. P. Ogilvie, 

 Sizewell House, Leiston. 



Correspondence and exchange invited during season with 

 collectors having duplicate eggs of nightjar, less-spotted wood- 

 pecker, dotterel, hawfinch, twite, &c, by R. Standen, Goos- 

 nargh, Preston, Lancashire. 



Wanted, a good clean copy of the " Student's Manual of 

 Geology," by J. B. Jukes, 3rd ed., edited by A. Geikie, 

 Edinburgh, 1872 ; also N os 15 and 17 for October and December, 

 1876, of the " Naturalists' Tour of the West Riding, Consolidated 

 Naturalists' Society," full price will be given in each case. — 

 H. Crowther, the Museum, Leeds. 



A gentleman slightly acquainted with geology, would be 

 glad to correspond with another for their mutual benefit. — 

 Address " J." care of Mr. Powell, stationer, Corporation Street, 

 Manchester. 



Wanted, Phillips' " Geology of Yorkshire." Send particulars 

 of price to Harry Muller, Rawdon, near Leeds. 



Good slides of diatom and globigerine ooze (''Challenger" 

 dredging) ; also parasite from the gill of salmon, in exchange 

 for other good slides. — Nicholas Wright, 8 Duke Street, Lower 

 Broughton, Manchester. 



Shells of ' H 'aliotis tuberculata for reptiles or aquarium objects. 

 — Charles Foran, Marshfield House, Eastbourne. 



For sections of tamus root, showing starch granules arid 

 raphides in situ, send really well-mounted slides to Thomas 

 Shipton, Chesterfield. Lists exchanged. 



Furze mite [Tetranychus idicis) a good supply of living 

 specimens in exchange for one or two well-mounted slides of the 

 same. — E. D. Marquand, Brockenhurst, Hants. 



Wanted to exchange Roscoe and Schorlemmer's "Che- 

 mistry," for either of the following; Fownes' "Manual," or 

 Gregory's "Handbook of Chemistry," Hooker's "Student's 

 Flora," or a powerful pocket lens, lens not to be worth less than 

 15s. — J. Pywell, 50 Wellington Street, Leicester. 



A valuable collection of British mosses (120 specimens) with 

 notes, from herbarium of late W. Valentine, (offered for Cooke's 

 " Handbook of Fungi." — G. E. Massee, 8 West Grove Terrace, 

 Scarborough. 



Asarum Europium, or Asaralaca (1129). Living specimens 

 of this rare old British plant in exchange for native living 

 plants of any of the following : 1610, 1611, 1613, 1615, 1621, 

 1622, 1624, 1625, 1626, 1630, 1631, 1636, 1641, 1642, 1643.— 

 James W. Lloyd, Kington, Herefordshire. 



Wanted, 52a, 78var, 129, 175, 250b, 251, 231b, 418a and b, 

 492, 501b, 503b, 630b, 651b, 675, 747b, 839, 486b, 853b, 861b, 

 927b, 966, 992b, 1020, 1026, 1046, 1 139, 1139b, 1147b, 1237, 1312* 

 ■1484, 1520b, 1530b, 1535b and c, 1555, 1569a, 1582b, 1631, 

 1632, for other rare plants, or exchange lists. — G. C. Druce, 

 Northampton. 



Duplicates of fossils from Oolite and others for other fossils. 

 —J. Purdue, Ridgeway, Plympton, Devon. 



Dried fronds of C. /ragilis, C. officinarum, P. vnlgare, P. 

 Dryopteris, P. calcareum, in exchange for P. alpestre, P. 

 Lonchitis, L. cristata, L. temiila, A. septentrionale, A. ger- 

 manicum, A. marinnm, A.fontanum, A. lanceolatum, varieties 

 or exotic. — John J. Morgan, Tredegar. 



Wanted, Smith and Beck's " Popular Microscope," in 

 exchange for first-class transparent sections of coal, plant or 

 cash. — James Spencer, Salisbury Place, Halifax. 



Wanted, a low microscope stand, with or without objectives, 

 Continental model, Smith & Beck's " Economic," or Universal, 

 or similar form ; will give in exchange a triple-nose piece, slides, 

 slide cabinets, dissecting instruments, an air pump and other 

 microscopic requirements, and a little cash. Must be sent on 

 approval, to J. A. Harrison, F.R.M.S., The Laboratory, 31 

 Scale Lane, Hull. 



Spines of ophiocoma, and plates of holothuria : two balsam- 

 mounted slides for exchange. Send lists to J. B., 36 Windsor 

 Terrace, Glasgow. 



Botanical specimens and aid offered in exchange for ento- 

 mological. — 3 Belmont Villas, New Brompton, Kent. 



The following unmounted objects for exchange : British and 

 foreign zoophytes, flowers of Sparmannia Africana, seeds of 

 Libertia ixioidcs (a beautiful object), &c. Wanted, well-mounted 

 micro slides, also British and foreign zoophytes, and alga for 

 herbarium. Foreign correspondence wanted. — B. B. Scott, 24 

 Seldon Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 



Draba aizoides from Pennard Castle ; fossil ferns from Dean 



Forest coalfields, in exchange for zoophytes and Chalk fossils. 

 Wanted, book on British zoophytes. — A. Thomson, 17 Wynne 

 Street, Liverpool. 



Wanted, fossil clausiliae and pupa: from Isle of Wight and 

 Essex ; also small ammonites and fossil shells from different 

 localities. Recent shells given in exchange. — F. M. Hele, Fair- 

 light, Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



Offers in exchange (either in foreign land, or foreign marine 

 shells, the former most acceptable) for any of the following 

 British land and fresh-water shells, which I have duplicate speci- 

 mens of at present — namely, S. oblonga, Lim. involuta, L. 

 Burnetti, P. ringens, V. pusilla, V. substriata, V. alpestris, 

 V. minutissima, V. angustior, V. Moulinsiana.—'W . Sutton, 

 High Claremont, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Authenticated side-blown eggs, swallow-tailed kite, 1am- 

 mergeier, African buzzard, Waseen chatterer, and several hun- 

 dred Indian species. Wanted, birds of Europe (Bree), or eggs 

 in exchange. — Sissons, Sharrow, Sheffield. 



Vols. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7/8, unbound (clean) of the " Entomologists' 

 Monthly Magazine" (Van Voorst) for Newman's "British 

 Moths," microscope, or offers.— R. Colbridge, 57 New Brook 

 Street, Hull. 



Interesting unmounted material, mostly marine, such as 

 zoophytes, foraminifara, diatoms in situ, and otherwise, algae, 

 entomostraca, tadpoles of crustaceans, holothurian plates, sponge 

 spicula, molluscan palates, &c. Wanted, class slides, photo 

 lens, books on mollusca and fishes or, cash if preferable. — T. 

 McGann, Burrin, Ireland. 



Wanted, standard works on natural history, in exchange for 

 fossils and algse. A good copy of Goldsmith's "Animated 

 Nature," coloured plates, 2 vols., well-bound for four dozen good 

 micro slides. — 165 Well Street, Birmingham. 



Auchomenus puellus, in exchange for other good local 

 coleoptera. Address, J. W. Pickering, 161 Belgrave Street, 

 Birmingham. 



For piece of Chinese rice paper (pith of tree), send object of 

 interest, to Mrs. Skilton, London Road, Brentford, Middlesex. 



Foreign land and fresh-water shells wanted, in exchange for 

 American or the rarer British species and varieties. Continental 

 exchanges desired. — Edward Collier, 7 Dale Street, Manchester. 



BOOKS, ETC. RECEIVED. 



" The Chemistry of Common Life." By Professor Johnston. 

 New edition by Professor Church. London : W. Blackwood & 

 Sons. 



"The Flowers of the Sky." By R. A. Proctor. London: 

 Strahan & Co. 



" Life and Habit." By Samuel Butler. London : . Hardwick 

 & Bogue. 



"Microscopic Organisms found in the Blood of Man and 

 Animals, &c." By T. R. Lewis, M.B. Calcutta. 



"Certain Effects of Starvation on Vegetable and Animal 

 Tissues." By D. D. Cunningham, M.B. Calcutta. 



" The Science Index." January. 



"Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural Science." 

 No. 2. 



" Report of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, 

 1878." 



"The Forester. Nottingham High School Magazine." 

 Easter, 1S79. 



"Entomological Papers." By C. V. Riley, M.A. 



"Journal of Proceedings of the Winchester and Hampshire 

 Scientific and Literary Society." Vol. iii. part i. 1878. 



" Midland Naturalist." April. 



" American Naturalist." March. 



" Revue Mycologique." January. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." April. 



"Guide du Naturaliste." January. 



" Le Monde de la Science et de 1' Industrie." February. 



"Canadian Entomologist." February. 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." April. 



" Land and Water." April. 



" Journal of Quekett Microscopical Club." No. 39. 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to 12TH ult. from :— 

 E. J. B. W.— W. W. H.-H. R.— D. B.— L. H.— E. D.— 

 J. F. R.— T. B. W— T. W. H.— W. B.— H. M. J. U.— J. C. 

 — E. J. B. W.— E. L.-W. H. H.— C. P. O.— W. H. J.— 

 C. B — J. R. S. C— J. J.— Dr. P. Q K.— J. F. M.— J. H. W. 

 — H. W. R.— A. G. W.— M. H. R.— B. R. P.— A. W.— T. G. H. 

 — F. L. St. A.— J. M. C— W. G. T.— G. H.— J. C— H. C— 

 J. F. U.— J. P. G.— M. M — T. B. L.— J. O. B.— W. A. D.— 

 W. E. M.— S. T.— C. F.— E. B. de M.— C. B.— T. S.-W. K.— 

 R. S. G— J. S.— H. M.— J. P.— E. D. M.— R. S.— W. H. H.— 

 G. E. M.— J. W. L.— G. C. D.— J. J. M.— J. C— F. K.— 

 Sir J. H.— W. S. J.— J. B— F. W. M.— Dr. M.— G. H.— 

 T. W. D.— M. L. T. W.— J. W. P.— B. M. W.— Dr. D. S.— 

 G. M.— T. B. L.— T. McG.— R. C— J. W. S.— W. S.— F. M.H. 

 —A. T.— B. B. S.— H. P. M.— J. S. H.— &c. 



