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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



EXCHANGES. 



Will exchange Murby's photophysical wall map of the world, 

 for Sachs' Botany, or Jukes and Geikie's Geology, and a few 

 good fossils.— T. Tate, Thornbury, Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Ancula crist at a, or well-mounted palate for Cylichnacylin- 

 drica or Scalaria communis (animal and shell).— J. Turner, 

 Davenport, Stockport. _ 



Fossils in exchange for minerals.— Rev. H. B. Lapel, Ureat 

 Eastern Rectory, Dunmow. 



Bird eggs and lepidoptera, in exchange for other not in 

 collection. Many common butterflies wanted, also foreign ones. 

 —J. A. Wheldon, South Parade, Northallerton. 



I have several duplicates of six spot Burnet moth (Anthrocera 

 filiftenduhe), which I shall be glad to exchange for other 

 entomological specimens.— F. Carter, 1 Tollington Place, Is- 

 lington Park, London, N. 



British shells. List of desiderata on application.— Henry 

 Coates, Bridgend House, Perth. . 



Fine mounted scales or insect of Podura cunncollis, in 

 exchange for other slides.— T. Forty, Buckingham. 



Student's compound monocular microscope in case, with 

 polariscope and condenser on stand. What offers?— J. Liddy, 

 6 Harrison Street, Kingsland. . . 



Sand from estuary of Thames or from alluvial deposit in Isle 

 of Sheppey, containing foraminifera, entomostraca, and Trt- 

 ceratum favus, and several discoidal species of diatoms in 

 exchange for well-mounted slides.— W. H. Shrubsole, F.G.S., 

 Sheerness-on-Sea. 



Neatly finished slide of spider (E. diadema) mounted whole, 

 offered for good slide of selected diatoms or geological sections. 

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



Alg.-e, zoophytes, and sponges, from the Firth of Forth in 

 exchange for other algse, zoophytes, and sponges, principally 

 zoophytes named and localised.— Andrew Edmondsbone, 6 

 Huntly Street, Edinburgh. 



I have for exchange sets of forty specimens, seventeen species 

 of greensand fossils, including amongst others, teeth, vertebra, 

 and shells. Wanted specimens from other formations.— 

 J. Arthur Floyd, Alcester, Warwickshire. 



A few specimens of 55, 367, 394. 539. io 4°» offered in exchange 

 for plants peculiar to the south of England. Address, S. E. L., 

 2 King Street, Penrith. 



Exchange Spartina stricta for any of the following grasses : 

 1521, 1529, 1545. 1554. 1581, 1596, 1597— Rev. F. H. Arnold, 

 Fishbourne, Chichester. . 



A great variety of most interesting unmounted material 

 mostly marine, list free ; also some really grand slides of marine 

 ales, with diatoms in situ, &c. Marine algae in variety, well- 

 mounted and named on suitable paper. Ditto, on glass for 

 lantern slides, really splendid. Wanted, first class micro or 

 lantern slides, photo apparatus, stereoscope, &o, part cash if 

 desired.— J. McGann, Burren, co. Clare. 



Wanted, Helix obvulata, H. sericea, H.granulata, Clausilia 

 biplicata, &c. ; other British shells offered in exchange. Apply 

 to J. W. Cundall, Carrville, Alexandra Park, Redland, Bristol. 



Wanted, a specimen or two of the British Comatula rosea 

 in its young stalked stage, a liberal exchange in micro slides or 

 cash.— F. Walker, Heywood, Tenby. 



One and a half inch micro objective, micro slides, old English 

 coins, many in mint state, and proof engravings after Landseer, 

 Reynolds, and Lawrence, for the following desiderata:— 

 Allman's " Freshwater Polyzoa," Hooker's " Student s Flora, 

 Babington's "Manual of British Botany," proof engravings 

 after Turner, or slate and plate glass aquarium.— W. T. Jones, 

 15 Fairbank Street, City Road, London. 



Entomostraca, Temora Finmarchica, mounted in balsam, 

 for any good slide ; Crustacea or echinodermata preferred.— 

 E. Lovett, Holly Mount, Croydon. 



For hair of Oniithorkynchus paradoxus (unmounted), send 

 other object of interest to Mrs. Skilton, London Road, Brentford, 

 Middlesex. , _ 7 



WELi.-fmished slides offered of ChrooUpus aureus, Lyngbya 

 muralis, ascospores of Peziza, ascospores of Ascobulus, Va- 

 dium tussilaginis, &c, for slides of polycistina, named diatoms, 

 insects, or animal tissues.— William West, 15 Horton Place, 

 Bradford. , , . 



Wanted, parasites and diatoms, named and mounted in 

 balsam, in exchange for other mounted objects ; send list to 

 W. H. Symons, 2 Queen's Terrace, St. John's Wood, N.W. 



Wanted, " Hogt; on the Microscope," and Tait's Land 

 and Fresh-water Shells," first-class insect slides in exchange. 

 Address, H. Insley, 150 Great King Street, Birmingham. 



Will any lady or gentleman abroad (any country) gather me 

 specimens of sea-weeds, zoophytes, and mosses? They need 

 not be mounted. British specimens of above offered in exchange, 

 also beautiful bouquets of natural flowers and flowers mounted 

 on cardboard. Butterflies also wanted from abroad. Send per 

 sample post, stating what exchange is required, to B. B. Scott, 

 24 Seldon Street, Kensington, Liverpool, England. 



Wanted, living specimens of rare British plants (especially 



critical species and varieties), in exchange for other rare (living) 



British plants. Lists exchanged.— A. B., 107 High Street, 



Croydon, Surrey. 



Wanted, standard work on Entomology, or microscopic 



marine objects (unmounted) ; offered French J inch triplet 

 objective ; sketches of British insects by Houghton (quite new). 

 L. Clarke's microscopic objects, slides, &c. — R. Brauer, Cress- 

 well Grove, Albert Park, Didsbury, Manchester. 



Fine collection of chalk fossils and micro-slides in ex- 

 change for minerals, especially fine crystals of fluor spar, calc 

 spar, quartz, galena, &o— A. Butt, Vine Cottage, Perry Vale, 

 Forest Hill, S.E. 



Wanted, skeletons of birds, reptiles, and small mammals, 

 lepidoptera, and casts of fishes. Exchange micro objects, &c. — 

 J. P. Wright, 27 Sunnybank Terrace, Undercliffe Lane, 

 Bradford, Yorkshire. 



For exchange, a few specimens of Chrysomela distinguenda, 

 for other rare beetles ; also British plants. Lists exchanged.— 

 G. Robson, 92 Cranbourne Street, Leicester. 



Macrocyclis concava, Zonites ligerus, Helix exoleta, 

 elevata, thyroides, altemata, apprvssa, tridentata, striatella, 

 &*£., Sphcerium stamineum, Unio crassideus, Pleurocera 

 canaliculatum and many other American land and fresh-water 

 shells, offered for Testacella Haliotidea, Succinea oblonga, 

 Helix lamellata, revetata, obvoluta, Vei-tigo pusi'.'a, angustior, 

 Acme lineata, or foreign land and fresh-water shells. — Edward 

 Collier, 7 Dale Street, Manchester. 



Kestrel, sparrow-hawk, golden crested wren, magpie, 

 pheasant, red grouse, golden plover, common snipe, landrail, 

 coot, wild duck, guillemot, black-headed gull, and others, 

 desiderata, British birds' eggs.— A. Smith, 8 South Mount 

 Street, Aberdeen. 



"London Catalogue," 7th edition, offered 79, 13s, 140, 174, 

 177, 245, 260, 293, 316, 369, 528, 567, 613, 627, 683, 692, 841b, 

 858, 913, 923, 934, 1057, 1072, 1141, 1 142, 1565. 1641, i6°5h. 

 Mentha crispa (L.), Sisymbrium pannonicum (Jacq.), and 

 Xanthiian spinosum and others, in exchange for 5. 7, 9, 10, 296, 

 758, 829, 1127, 1 129, 1201, and others. — A. E. Lomax, Heath 

 Terrace, Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead. 



Berkeley's " Cryptogamic Botany," Quekett's " Histology^ 

 Roscoe's "Spectrum Analysis," Herschell's "Astronomy," 

 Knapp's "Journal of a Naturalist," Gosse's "Devonshire 

 Coast," and " Tenby," and the following Ray Society's publica- 

 tions, viz. :— Burmeister's " Organisation of Trilobites," torbes' 

 "Naked-eyed Medusas," Oken's "Elements of Physio-Philo- 

 sophy," "Reports and Papers on Botany," and "Zoology," 

 Meyen's "Botanical Geography," " Correspondence of J no. 

 Ray." For some of the foregoing, I want Allman's " Fresh- 

 water Polyzoa," Pritchard's " Infusoria," Bowerbank's " Spon- 

 giadae." Standard botanical works and some of Ruskin's.— 

 B. G. Whiteman, 47 Belvedere Road, London, S.E. 



P. hippocampus, pure, dry, and balsam slides. Also other 

 pure gatherings. Wanted a good sample of the Yarra deposit. 

 — W. M. Paterson, Loftus. . . , , , , <• , 



Duplicates of the following good British land and fresh- 

 water shells offered in exchange for other desiderata— L. Bur- 

 netii, same variety as lacustris (Loch Skeno specimens taken 

 this season), L. involuta, S. oblonga, Vertigo pusilla, V. sub- 

 striata, V.alpestris, V . minutissima, V. angustior, desiderata, 

 good foreign land shells or British birds' eggs, numerous sorts 

 wanted.— W. Sutton, Upper Claremont, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

 Wanted, tropical beetles or butterflies, in exchange for a 

 barn owl in glass case, or very fine cocoons of the American 

 moth Cecropia.— Joseph Bates, High Street, Wellingborough. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 "Reports and Proceedings of the Manchester Field Natura- 

 lists' Society, 1878." 



" Report of the Entomologist." C. V. Riley. 



"Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists field Uub, 



1 " Report of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, 



l8 7 8 -" • , . • • '» 



" Proceedings of Geologists Association. 



" Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, vol. v. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" Les Mondes." 



" Scottish Naturalist." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



"Popular Science Review." 



" Canadian Entomologist." 



" Science News" (New York). 



&c. &c. &c. 



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