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IIARDWICKE'S SCIENCE. GOSSIP. 



LMay I, 1S69. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



R. M. H.— The " Anthora " of Gerarde is Aconitum Anthora 

 cf Linnaeus. 



E. j. W.— They are the crystals to which we alluded. 



Q E. F.— Dr. A. Wallace, Colchester, Essex. 



W. A. F. and J. S.W.— On oak-leaf, the "oak galls "figured 

 and described in a former volume. On orange, a Coccus (in- 

 sect). See Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 



E. \v. — In previous numbers the mode of drying flowers 

 so as to preserve their colour has been discussed. 



P. (Guy's Cliffe). — Peziza vesiculosa. 



C. C. C— " Pritchard's Infusoria." 4th edition, 186l, 36s., 

 plain ; Whittaker & Co. Smith's " Synopsis of British 

 Diatomacere." 1856; Van Voorst, £2. lis. 



G. A. S.-We cannot promise. It is impossible to insert 

 all the communications we receive that are approved. 



J. C— If original and good, they would doubtless be ac- 

 ceptable, but as the engraving would be costly, they must be 

 artistic. 



J. C. D.— What possible benefit can accrue from our con- 

 tinually naming mosses for you, just to save you the trouble 

 of learning to distinguish them for yourself? We cannot en- 

 courage such systematic imposition. 



G. H.— Had you read Science-Gossip for April carefully, 

 there would have been no reason for asking the question. 

 We can furnish information, but there is something essential 

 in the reader which we have no power to furnish. 



W. W.— The best plan to adopt, if printer's errors would be 

 avoided, is to write plainly, so that there can be no doubt of the 

 meaning. We are no great admirers of the book you allude to. 



p. s.— We can only insert one exchange for any month for 

 the same correspondent, unless he resides abroad. 



S. J. B.— 1. Very doubtful. 2. No good entomologist uses 

 cotton. 



W. C— All the plants to which the Irish " Shamrock' has 

 been referred are flowering plants. 



A. C— The ova of the toad are deposited in chains, and of 

 the frog in a mass. 



E. S. N.— Please send name and address to Mr. Robert 

 Holland, Mobberley, Knutsford, Cheshire. 



Stanley's Collkcting-Case.— We observe with regret 

 in the advertisement at p. xlii. of our last number that the 

 maker of this case remarks, " See editor's opinion, Science- 

 Gossip (No. 49), January 1, )86g." As we simply inserted 

 his description of the case, as sent to us, without observation 

 of our own, we decline, whatever our opinion may be, to 

 have an opinion thrust upon us for advertising purposes; and 

 therefore with all deference to Mr. Stanley, we must submit 

 that the remarks referred to are his own, and not ours. Let 

 mir readers turn to the page in question, and they will find 

 no opinion given by the editor. — En. S. G. 



Belgravia.— Surely we have announced often enough 

 that all communications not accompanied by name and 

 address are at once destroyed without notice. 



W. E. G.— Bentham's "Handbook of the British Flora," 

 129. ; Lovell Reeve & Co. 



F. H. M.— No. 2 is Pteris serrulata. 



A. A., Jun.— The common scale insect (Coccus), tooplenti- 

 ful in conservatories. 



G. H. H.— There are stoppered and capped bottles, but 

 none to answer all your requirements. 



D. H. S.— The commoner British mosses are figured and 

 described in "Stark's British Mosses," 7s. fid. ; Routledge. 



J. D. H.— No. 1. Onoclea sensibilit. 2. Barren. 3. Cyrto- 

 inium fulcatum. 4. Pteris serrulata. 



V. R. B.— It is not strange to see a Brimstone Butterfly, 

 even when the snow is on the ground. We have had so many 

 notices of it during the past three months that we inserted 

 none. 



G. S. T.-We cannot undertake commissions. Your offer 

 can be inserted as an advertisement. Write to the publisher. 



W. P.— If your bird laid eggs, then it was evidently a "duck," 

 notwithstanding its plumage being that of a " drake." 



E. D. B.— The larva of a " bot-fly " ((Estrus). 



A. H.— Yes, it is a common trick for spiders to feign death. 



M. C. — Not in our line. 



J. H.— For Nais Scotica sec Dalyell's " Power of the 

 Creator," vol. ii., p. 130, plate \~, figs. 1—5. 



T. B. F.— The answer to your query, as we read it, is that 

 hearing becomes less sensitive with age, " and nothing more." 



E. B. should try a little " benzole," touching therewith the 

 specimens attacked by mites. 



D. H. S.— For Zygnemacice consult Hassall's " British 

 Freshwater Alga;," or Annals 0/ Natural History, first series, 

 vols. ix. and x. 



EXCHANGES. 



American T and F Shells for Foreign Bulimi or the 

 rarer kinds of British Shells.— G. SherrilTTye, 58, Villa Road, 

 Handsworth, Birmingham. 



Mosses. — Racomitrum ellipticum and Ji. protensum (both 

 in fruit) for Desmatodon latifolius or D. nervosui. — Joseph 

 Bowman, Cockan, Lamplugh, Cockermouth. 



A Few Slides ok Diatomace.-k (named) or other Micro- 

 scope Objects wanted for a small collection of Alpine Plants 

 from Mont Blanc, Pic du Midi, &c— R. Anslow, Leegomery 

 Road, Wellington, Salop. 



Obi.iq.ue and Vertical Sections of Pteris aquilina 

 (showing Scalariform Ducts) in exchange for other good ob- 

 jects. — Send lists to John Carpenter, Waltham Cross, Herts. 



Lepidoptera. — Species of Northern United States for 

 those of England, Germany, India, and Australia. Also cor- 

 respondents solicited. — W. Webster Butterfield, M.D., In- 

 dianapolis, Indiana, U.S. of North America, 



For Carp Scales send stamped and directed envelope to 

 F. T., Post-office, Rugeley, Staffordshire. 



Correspondence and Exchanges wanted in Terrestrial 

 Conchology, with American, Continental, and Colonial 

 Conchologists, by Alfred Taylor, Hezmalhalch Yard, York 

 Street, Leeds. 



Well Mounted Slides of Reproductive Organs of Moss 

 (Bryum ligulatum) for other well mounted objects.— John H. 

 Martin, 86, Week Street, Maidstone. 



Fossils from Chalk for Fossils from any other formation. 

 Address, F.Stanley, Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary, Margate. 



British Ferns. — Po/ystic/ium lonchitis, and Polypodium 

 alpestre, for other rare species or varieties. — J. Morley, Jun., 

 Sherbourne Road, Bolsall Heath, Birmingham. 



Ferns, British or Continental, wanted for Canadian 

 species, in good condition. — Lists on application to " Cana- 

 dian," care of the editor of Science-Gossip. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



"Does Education Lessen Crime?" by William H. Groser, 

 B.Sc, F.G.S. London: Longmans. 



"Le Naturaliste Canadien," publie sous le patronage de 

 l'Institut Canadien de Quebec. Nos. 2, 3, 4. January, 

 February, and March, I860. Quebec : 8, Rue de la Montague. 



"The Gardener's Magazine." Part XL. April, i860. 

 London : E. W. Allen. 



" Land and Water." Nos. 166, 167, 168, 169. 



" Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society for 

 the Year 1868." Rugby : W. J. Tait & Sons. 



" Darwinism,'' a Lecture delivered before the Torquay 

 Natural History Society, February 1, 1865, by Thomas R. R. 

 Stebbing, M.A. London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 



" The American Entomologist." No. 7. March. St. 

 Louis, Mo. : Studley & Co. 



" Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society." Vol. iv. 

 Part I. 



" Report on the Culture of the Japanese Silkworm [Bomhyx 

 Varna. Mai) in I867-8 in England," by Alexander Wallace 

 M.D. Colchester : Benham & Harrison. 



"The Monthly Microscopical Journal." No. 4. April, 

 I860. London : Robert Hardwicke. 



" The Popular Science Review," for April, 1863. London : 

 Robert Hardwicke. 



"The Dental Register." Vol. xxiii. Nos. 2 and 3. Febru- 

 ary and March, I860. Cincinnati : Wrightson & Co. 



" Proceedings of the Portland Society of Natural History." 

 Vol. i. Part II. Portland, Maine, U.S. 



" Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural His- 

 tory Society." Vol. ii. No. 4. April, I869. 



" The American Entomologist." Vol. i. No. 3. Novem- 

 ber, 1868. St. Louis, Mo.: Studley & Co. 



"Scientific Opinion." Part V. April, I869. London: 

 Wyman & Sons. 



" The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club." No. 6. 

 April, I869. London : Robert Hardwicke. 



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