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class condition. — J. D. W., 60 Portland Road, Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne. 



Wanted (diatoms) Toxonidea Gregoriana and Biddulphia 

 regina, selected, or gatherings containing same. Rare selected 

 diatoms in exchange. — E. D. Marquand, Hea, Madron, 

 Penzance. 



For unmounted sections of elder, tamus, nettle, black bryony, 

 dog-rose, lychnis, send unmounted object to J. M., 12 Porchester 

 Street, near Clifford Street, Birmingham. 



Well-mounted slides of Zygonema cruciata, Zygonema qui- 

 ninum, Lyngbya floccosa, and Clmtophora elegans, offered in 

 exchange for other slides of interest. — R. L. Hawkins, Hillside, 

 Hastings. 



Volumes of "Zoologist" and " Entomologist," also Sharp's 

 list of Coleoptera, for Guenee's " Pyrales and Deltoides," or 

 Babington's "Manual," and Stainton's "Entomologist's Com- 

 panion," 1854. Particulars of books sent. — W. Thomas, St. 

 Andrew's Hospital, Northampton. 



Picked diatoms from Peruvian guano and deposits from 

 California, Bermuda, &c-, in exchange for June gatherings. — 

 J. Tempere, 269 Moss Lane, Manchester. 



Acme lineata, H. lamellata, H. aculeata, for Paludina 

 vivipara, var. unicolor, or for Anodonta cygn&a, large speci- 

 mens 7 or 8 inches wide, or larger if can be got ; no other will 

 do. — T. Whitenham, Cross Lane Marsh, Huddersfield. 



Wanted, microscope or magic lantern ; will give in exchange 

 collections of eggs, land and fresh-water shells, and fossils from 

 silurian, carboniferous, oolite, and chalk strata ; particulars 

 given. — James Ingleby, Eavestone, near Ripon. 



Land and fresh-water shells in exchange for books on botany, 

 geology, and conchology. — C. T. Musson, 68 Goldsmith Street, 

 Nottingham. 



Neatly finished entomological slides (balsam mounts), in 

 exchange for any good slides ; diatoms preferred. — G. P. Nevill, 

 2 James Street, Lozell's Road, Birmingham. 



Wanted, carboniferous crinoids, especially heads. Offered, 

 carboniferous fossils, viz. mollusca, fish-remains, &c. — T. Stock, 

 16 Colville Place, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, British or foreign mosses, lepidoptera, or good 

 micro slides, in exchange for British stuffed birds in separate 

 cases ; green woodpecker, sparrow-hawk, red grouse, &c. — 

 J. R. Murdoch, 40 Leighton Lane, Leeds. 



One hundred and fifty British mosses, offered for half the 

 number of seaweeds, or 400 British flowering plants for 150 sea- 

 weeds, or a proportionate number in either case. — William West, 

 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



Atlanta, Io, Urticae, Aglaia, Alsus, Artaxerxes, Caja, 

 Velleda, Dictaea, Ziczac, Bucephala, Psi, V. aureum, Piniaria, 

 Csesiata, and others. Desiderata, many southern specimens. — 



A. Smith, 10 Little Belmont Street, Aberdeen. 



Several good gatherings of marine micro material, offered 

 for good slides. Lists to be exchanged. — W. H. Shrubsole, 

 E.G. S., Sheerness-on-Sea. 



For two ounces of guano, containing forms of Aulacodisats 

 Comber ii, Coscinodiscus oculis iridis, Actinospharia Italy onyx, 

 &c, send same amount of other diatomaceous material. — 

 J. Millins, 6 Brighton Place, Stretford, Manchester. 



Wanted, correspondents for mutual improvement and ex- 

 changing Swedish natural objects for English and colonial. — 

 Address Alfred Beckman, Askersund, Sweden. 



A variety of superior anatomical and pathological sections, 

 stained and ready for mounting, in exchange for cleaned diatoms, 

 polycistina, &c. Good slides of above for offers. — H. Vial, 

 Crediton. 



For small portion of Tasmanian zoophytes {Catenicella loricd), 

 send well-mounted slide. Few herbarium specimens of British 

 mosses for others. Send list of wants and duplicates. "A 

 System of Vegetables, &c," by a botanical society at Lichfield, 

 1782 (2 vols.). Offers books, zoophytes, algae, mosses, &c. — 



B. B. Scott, 24 Seldon Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 

 Silurian, upper and lower chalk, red crag, greensand 



(Devon), carboniferous lime, gault, and other kinds of fossils, 

 also polished specimens of Devonshire madrepores, for good 

 sorts of British shells, and some large kinds of foreign shells, 

 such as cones, turbos, limpets, clams, pinnas, and other large 

 sorts. — Address A. J. R. Sclater, Bank Street, Teignmouth, 

 Devon. 



British fossils, minerals, and rock specimens, offered in 

 exchange for micro slide cabinet for 500 or more, cardboard 

 slides, sediments, foraminifera, or rock sections. — E. Wilson, 

 18 Low Pavement, Nottingham. 



Wanted, living specimens, male and female, of the hedgehog 

 and glow-worm, in exchange for northern plants, living or dried, 

 or cash. — A. Davidson, Plockton, Strome, Ross-shire, N.B. 



Several well-mounted histological specimens, some stained, 

 others injected, for other well-mounted objects of interest, or 

 for unmounted material, such as sections of human skin, tongue 

 of cat, injected liver, human spleen, ovary, &c. — J. F. H. 

 Edwards, 116 Moseley Road, Birmingham. 



A WELL-mounted slide of diatomaceous deposit from Llyn 

 Arennig Bach, North Wales (new deposit), for well-mounted 

 slide of foraminifera or named diatoms. — Address C. S. Patter- 

 son, 16 Devonshire'Road, Prince's Park, Liverpool. 



Small quantity of unmounted material offered for good slides. 

 — E. Clover, Springfield, Sudbury, Suffolk. 



Pup-e of Crataegi, Quercus, Carpini, Dictaea, Ziczac, and 



Menyanthidis, for lepidoptera.— R. McAldowie, 82 Bonaccord 

 Street, Aberdeen. 



A live box and stage forceps, in exchange for microscopic 

 slides.— F. S. L., 2 Oakland Villas, Redland, Bristol. 



RippLE-mark gatherings from Barmouth, rich in foraminifera, 

 &c., exchange for unmounted material or slides. — Thomas Lisle, 

 Villiers Street, Wolverhampton. 



Lepidoptera, birds' eggs, and stuffed birds, for others not in 

 collection, or books on natural history. — Roland Green, Rainham, 

 Kent. 



Wanted, Gosse's " Tenby," " Manual of Marine Zoology," 

 and any other good works on natural history, in exchange for 

 Hogg on the Microscope, 2nd edition, botanical works, &c. — 

 C. A. Grimes, 8 Trafford Street, Dover. 



Wanted, sections — longitudinal and transverse— of the stems 

 and pinales of various species of ferns, mosses, Isoetes (quill- 

 wort), _&c. Will exchange mounted and named species of 

 carboniferous polyzoa for mounted specimens of above. — 

 G. R. Vine.Atterclifife, Sheffield. 



WELL-finished slide of wing of day moth, Urania Rypkeus, 

 offer for other good slide, parasite or diatoms preferred. — 

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



Micro material, beautiful scale of fern, Lcpicystis sepulta 

 (Brazils), leaf hair, Meconopsis Wallachi, leaf glands, Rhodo- 

 dendro?i Nuttalli, Tasmanian zoophyte, Cattenellica, and fora- 

 miniferous sand (Leghorn), in exchange for mounted object or 

 butterflies.— M. Medhurst, 1 Gladstone Road, Liverpool. 



Fossils of various formations, and several minerals, in 

 exchange for a few good specimens of lower silurian (preferred) 

 or other fossils not in collection. List sent. — W. T. Wakefield, 

 Waltham Abbey, Essex. 



For leaf with oak spangles, send other object of interest.— 

 J. Millins, 6 Brighton Place, Stretford, Manchester. 



Offered, Ccntrantlms Calcitrapa for Epimcdium alpinum, 

 Nos. 1265, 1280, 1282 for 1299, 1300, 1302 ; also Nos. 637, 928, 

 1140, 1381, 1402, 1403, 1479, 1504, 1505 for 377, 541, 762, 844, 

 93 r > 985. 997. 1195, 1220. Any of the above offers for 1621, 

 1622. Many other uncommon plants to exchange for Irish 

 potamogetons, eastern counties and N.B. rarities. Send lists. — 

 Eyre de Crespigny, 25 Oxford Road, Kilburn, N.W., London. 



Duplicates of the following good British land and fresh- 

 water shells offered in exchange for'other desiderata : — Litn. 

 Buructti, ditto var. lacnstris, L. involuta, S. oblonga, Vertigo 

 pusilla, V. substriata, V. alpestris, V. minutissima, V. an- 

 gustior. Desiderata, good foreign land shells, British shells, 

 varieties principally albida, or British birds' eggs ; numerous sorts 

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



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



' " Illustrations of the British Flora : a Series of Wood 

 Engravings, with Dissections of British Plants." By W. H. 

 Fitch, F.L.S., and W. G. Smith, F.L.S. London: L. Reeve 

 &Co. 



" Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey," vol. v. No. 1. 



" Les Mondes." 



"Le Monde de la Science et de ITudustrie," No. 10/ 



"Extinct Species of Rhinoceridas of North America," &c. 

 By E. D. Cope. 



" Notes on the Flora of Surrey." By A. Bennett. 



"Journal of Forestry," October. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes," November. 



"Annual Report of the West London Scientific Association." 



"Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society." 



"Proceedings of the Norwich Geological Society." 



"Lectures on the Geology of Leighton Buzzard and its 

 Neighbourhood." By E. W. Lewis, F.R.G.S. 



''Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society." 



"The Insect Fauna of the Mezozoic Period," No. 2. By H. 

 Goss, F.L.S. 



" American Naturalist." 



" Science News." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



"Land and Water." 



"Journal of Applied Science." 



&c. -. &c. &C. 



Communications received up to 12TH ult. from:— 

 E. G. B. B.— E. P.— S. A. H.— T. W. N. B.— G. H. B.— F. F. 

 — M. O.— F. G.— H. M.— W. L. S.— W. M. L. B.— G. C— 

 J. G. T. L.— J. D. W.— A. H. M.— G. M.— J. E. P.— J. D.— 

 K. A. B.— J. H.— W. A. L.— T. B. W.— A. H. M.— J. E. P.— 

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

 J. I.-W. W.— J. R. M.— T. S.— A. S.— W. H. S.— H. V.— 

 R. C— W. G. D.— D. B.— G. P. N.— J. A. B.— W. T.— R. O.— 

 J. M.— J. A. C— F. H. H.— F. H.— R. L. H.— M. S. H. C— 

 J. F— J. M.— G. T. H.— T. Q. C— A. B.— E. D. M.— A. J. 

 R. S.— W. L.— J. M.— E. W— A. D— F. S. L.-O. R.-Dr. E. 

 de C— J. E.— J. F. H. E-— G. C— W. S.— C. S. J. P.— E. C— 

 R. Mc A.— T. L.— R G.— J. L. H.— C. A. G.— G. R. "V— 

 R. W. C— I. C. T.— R. A. B.— W. H. S.— W. T. W.— M. M— 

 J. W. S.— H. M.— W. A. I,.— R. O.— F. W. M.— T. C- W.— 

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