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HARD IVICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[Dec. 1, 1370. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Juvenis.— Nothing is inserted in this journal unless ac- 

 companied by name and address of correspondent. 



A. T. S.— Copy of proceedings of the Perthshire Society 

 not received. 



T. H. S.— The Sectularia is abietina, the shells are Spirorbis 

 nazttiloides, and the parasite is a species of Tubulipora. 



W. P. (Canonbury).— Letter returned. Wrong address. 



R. L. — Exposed furs are not so liable to be attacked by 

 moth as when enclosed. Spirits of camphor, turpentine, and 

 benzine are all recommended by their respective advocates. 



B. H. K. — *' Singing mice " are not at all uncommon. 



J. R. P. — Was it a "centipede," because some of these are 

 luminous ? " Wireworm " is rather vague, some wireworms 

 are beetle larvae. 



M. S. W.— Will correspondents write their initials more 

 distinctly and legibly, if they intend us to reply ; we are often 

 compelled to guess. The eggs are those of the earth mite 

 {Trombidium), figured in an early number of this journal. 



H. W.— The terms employed seem to be clearly enough 

 defined in Tate's "Land and Fresh-water Molluscs,'' pub- 

 lished by R. Hardwicke, at six shillings (coloured). 



J. H. S. — See notice at head of " Exchanges." If we insert 

 them gratuitously, we cannot write them out for the 

 printer. 



H. G. — Not sufficiently in our "line " for a second notice, 

 however much your observations may meet with our 

 approval. 



C. E. H. R.— Similar reasons to those stated above in reply 

 to H. G. 



A. W. R. has found 33 whole grains of corn in the crop of 

 a sparrow. 



J. B. —We believe that your query about animals that 

 move the upper jaw, is answered in an early volume of this 

 journal. 



D. W.— You had better considt Slack's " Pond Life." The 

 organisms written about are arranged in the months during 

 which they are found. 



H. D. (Liverpool).— It is a fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon. 



Refer Back. — Will correspondents, especially in reply to 

 queries in " Notes and Queries," quote the page on which 

 the query occurs, and in remarks on previous observations it 

 would be equally useful, and give but little trouble to each 

 individual writer, but would entail considerable extra labour 

 on the Editor. 



F. C. — We cannot answer ; you had better address your 

 queries to the respective publishers. 



A. C. (Liverpool).— Would any one believe that you, or any 

 other person, could send slides through the post without box 

 or similar protection ? An attempt will be made next month 

 to name the objects from the fragments. Of course Nos. 1 

 and 6 were broken, nothing else could be expected. 



M. J. W. — Typical form of Cystopteris fragilis. 



R. E. — The fly is Musca domestica. 



H. M. — No. 1 is Crista denticulate, ; No. 2 is Bugulaflabel- \ 

 lata. 



A. — Dicranella sguarrosa. — R. B. 



R. G. — The early stage of Disceliumnudum, the prothallium 

 bearing plants of both sexes in flower. — R. B. 

 W. L. W. E.— Hypnum riparium. — B. B. 



EXCHANGES. 



Notice.— Only one "Exchange" can be inserted at a 

 time by the same individual. The maximum length (except 

 for correspondents not residing in Great Britain) is three 

 lines. Only objects of Natural History permitted. Notices 

 must be legibly written, in full, as intended to be inserted. 



A fresh supply of Corallines and Marine Alga; for any 

 objects of interest, especially microscopic fungi. — F. S., Post- 

 office, R.ugeley. 



Pyrola urenaria (Koch), and other rare British plants, for 

 rare British or foreign grasses.— J. H. L., 180, Mill Street, 

 Liverpool. 



Helix revel at a given in exchange for Succinea oblonga, 

 Pisidium obtusale, Amphipepleaglutinosa, or Limnau perrgra, 

 var. Burnetii. — C. Ashford, Grove House, Tottenham, N. 



Liparis dispar, eggs of, to be obtained by sending box and 

 stamps to John Purdue, Ridgeway Plympton, Devon. 



Physoamitriutn sphtsricum for Tetraplodon angustatus or 

 'Eucalypta c ommut at a.— J ohn Whitehead, 17, Shaw Street, 

 Dukinfleld, Cheshire. 



Wanted to purchase or exchange Pupa pusilla and Pupa 

 substriata, a few specimens of each. — Address, care of Major 

 Mann, Church-Hill House, Dover. 



Fossils from chalk for good entomological slides or wood 

 sections, mounted. — Address, W. H. Gorum,Waltham Abbey, 

 Essex. 



For twelve varieties of micro-seeds send stamped envelope 

 to Isaac Wheatley, Mailing Street, Lewes. Any microscopic 

 object acceptable. 



Wanted, Silurian fossils in exchange for mountain lime- 

 stone, gault, and oolitic fossils, and oblige, W. McLachlan, 

 2, Pavement, Clapham. 



Nycterine capeiisis and Eccremona-rpus scaber. For these 

 choice seeds send other objects (seeds excepted) to C. D., 

 187, Oxford Street, Mile End, E. 



FORAMINIFEROUS SAND AND SCALES OF PILCHARD ACT 



Salmon Peel. Stamped envelope and object to J. R. Pock- 

 lington, Woolcott Park, Bristol. . 



British Specimens of Planarbis dilatatus and Zonites 

 glaber, for Vertigo alpestris and Clausilia parvula. — Thos. 

 Rogers, 7, Cookson Street, Manchester. 



Scales of Red and Grey Millet (unmounted). — Send 

 stamped and addressed envelope (any object of interest ac- 

 ceptable), to G. E. Quick, Long Lane, Southwark. 



For longitudinal section of boxwood, send stamped 

 envelope and any object of interest, except seeds, to J. 

 Sargent, jun., Fritchley, near Derby. 



Aregma gracile (unmounted), for microscopic leaf fungi 

 (unmountert), excepting A.bulbosum. — Dr. Graham, Holm- 

 wood, Weybridge. 



British Birds' Eggs, nearly 80 varieties, in exchange for 

 scientific instruments, books, or micro-slides. — E. L., 

 Collegiate House, Wootton Bassett. 



Palate of Whelk and Winkle (unmounted) in exchange 

 for other Palates, or anything of interest. — R. H. Alderman, 

 14, Coal Exchange, E.C. 



Microscopic Objects, mounted and unmounted, chiefly 

 from the Mediterranean and West Coast of Ireland, in ex- 

 change for other objects. Cutaneous plates from the skins of 

 Holothuria would be very acceptable, mounted or in the skin. 

 — R. William Battersby, Caragh Lake, Killarney. 



Polyzoa (Corallines), &c, named (unmounted) for micro- 

 scope, for mounted or unmounted objects. Send stamped 

 envelope and objects to H. Munro, Lyme Regis, Dorset. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



"The Dental Register." Vol. XXIV. No. 9, Sept. 1870. 

 Cincinnati. 



" Catalogue of the Mollusca of Aberdeen, Banff, and Moray, 

 and the Neighbouring Seas." By Robert Dawson, M.A. 

 Aberdeen, John Wilson. 



" The Gardener's Magazine," for November, 1870. 



"Land and Water." Nos. 250, 2.51, 252, 253. 



"The Monthly Microscopical Journal." November, 1870. 



"The Animal World." November, 1870. 



" Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy." By A. P. 

 Deschanel, translated by J. D. Everett, M.A., D.C.L., &c. 

 Part I. — Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics. Illus- 

 trated by 181 engravings on wood and one coloured plate. 

 London, Blackie & Son. 



"Crustacea podothalmata and the histology of their 

 Shells." By Edward Parfitt. 



" Fossil sponge spicules in the green sand of Haldon and 

 Blackdown." By Edward Parfitt. 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." Vol. V. No. 5. 



"Birds of Norfolk." By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. Vol.2. 

 London, Van Voorst. 



" Notes and Queries on China and Japan." No. 6. Hong- 

 kong. 



" The American Naturalist," for November, 1S70. 



Communications Re( eived.— J. E. T.— J. W.— E. T. S.— 

 C. F. W.-R. II. — J. W.-H. C. L.-C. A.— A. S. C— J. H. L. 

 —A. II. — J. R. P.— J. F.— R. E.-J. C— J. H.— M. S. W.— 

 C. F. G— G.— E. J. J. -J. H. G— J. E. D.— C. A.— B. H. K. 

 -H. E. W.— J. W.— C. E. H. R— J. B.— W. H. G.— G. B. C. 

 — J. S.-J. H. S.— R. H.M.-H.G.— G. E.Q.— T. R.— J.R.P. 

 — E. G. W.— H. W.-H. C. R.— H. I.— I. L.— C. 1. D.— 

 W. A. M.— R. T., M.A.— J. P.-H. D.— R. G.— G. F.— T. S. C. 

 — E. L.— A. R. G.— D. B. B.— R. G. K.— G. H. H.-C. J. W. R. 

 —J. R.— H. U.— D. W.— W. McL.— A. T. S.-H. W. L.— 

 A. E. B.-R. S. H.— R. H. A.— J. J. W.— W. E. H.— R. W. B. 

 —J. A. H.-W. L. W. E.— F. C— II. M.— J. B. 



