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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



" Bk'tish Wild Birds" from number i to 26, both unbound. 

 Wanted, Darwin's " Insectivorous Plants," and " Variation of 

 Animals and Plants under Domestication." — F. Willoughby, 

 St. Paul's Square, Birmingham. 



Wanted, Foreign and English beetles, will exchange Foreign 

 and English Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. Will correspond 

 with foreign Coleopterists. — D. Dods, 47 Chepstow Place, 

 Bayswater, W. 



British silver coins, in good preservation of Henry, Edward, 

 Elizabeth, Charles, Anne. Also Roman coin -, silver and copper, 

 offered in exchange for flint stone or bronze implements. — R. 

 McAldowie, 12 St. Nicholas Street, Aberdeen. 



Stained sections of Coba-ci scandens, Ilex Aquifolium, and 

 several other botanic.il slides, in exchange for other well-mounted 

 slides. Lists exchanged. J. William Horton, Brayford Wharf, 

 Lincoln. 



Wanted one or two examples of bone, shell, or stone fish- 

 hooks from South Sea Islands, or the Eskimo or American 

 Indians. Liberal exchange offered in Crustacea, mollusca, 

 rocks, or nucro-slides of marine objects. E. Lovett, 43 Clyde 

 Road, Croydon. 



For exchange or otherwise. A fine mahogany, 40 drawer 

 microscopic slide cabinet with panel door, &c, to hold 1920 

 slides, flat. — E. Lovett, 43 Clyde Road, Croydon. 



Wantpd, old English coins. Six flakes from the neighbour- 

 hoods of Dover and Hemel Hempstead offered in exchange. A 

 coin of the above description, of the value of about one shilling. 

 — B. Piffard, Hill House, Hemel Hempstead, Herls. 



Wanted, perfect, correctly named, British and Foreign but- 

 terflies, in exchange for some good bulbs of liliums and other 

 hardy flowers, British shells, and a few Paris basin fossils 

 (named). — J. T, R., Spring Cottage, Dee Banks, Chester. 



OBJECTIVES wanted of half an inch and higher, and other 

 micro-apparatus to exchange for micro-slides, collection? of 

 phanerogams and mosses, or botanical works. — J. Harbord 

 Lewis, F.L.S., 145 Windsor Street, Liverpool. 



Offered, mountain hare stuffed, new, without case, and 

 Sciknce-Gossii- unbound, March to May, 1880, and Aug. 1880 

 to Dec. 1882 : wanted uncommon British mammals, skins or in 

 flesh —J. Kelsall, Ball. Coll., Oxon. 



Wanted a polariscope for microscope. Will give 5 vols. 

 (1877-81), " Popular Science Review," bound and in good con- 

 dition. — F. Adams, 92 Upper Alma Street, Newport, Mon. 



WELL-blown eggs of golden-winged woodpecker, spotted 

 sandpiper, Leaches petrel, and red-winged starling, to exchange 

 for others not in collection. — Dr. J. T. T. Reed, Kyhope, near 

 Sunderland. 



Wanted a good second-hand slide cabinet to hold at least 500. 

 Apply, stating price, or exchange required, to W. Irving, 16 

 Acomb Street, Manchester. 



Wanted the vols, or numbers of Science-Gossip from the 

 beginning to the end of 1872 ; also any of G. Eber's novels, 

 translated from the German. Will give in exchange good slides, 

 various. — J. J. Andrew, L.D.S. Eng., 2 Belgravia, Belfast. 



Diatoms. — Exchange twelve prepared tubes of diatoms 

 (from different parts of the world), for three well-mounted insect 

 slides. — F. Cresswell DuBois, 15 West Cromwell Road, Ken- 

 sington. 



Botanists and others in all temperate regions are cordially 

 invited to enter into correspondence as to the collecting of 

 bulbous plants with a view to exchange for other similar plants, 

 not indigenous to their districts ; or to exchange for Geological, 

 Conchological, and other Natural History specimens. — J. T. R., 

 Spring Cottage, Dee Banks, Chester. 



Chessvlite, bloodstones, jet, actinolite, wood opal, pyro- 

 morphite, specular iron, erubescite, dolomitic limestone, gra- 

 phite, polished madrepores, practical microscopy by George 

 Davis (new); "Human Race," by Louis Figuier (new). 

 British tertiary fossils. — Wanted fossils from tertiary formations 

 of France, Italy, and Germany. Also rare British and foreign 

 shells. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Foreign butterflies, Orn. brookiana, (Sumatra) ; Morpho. 

 cypris (Bogota); Mania rhyplieas (Madagascar); the three 

 most splendid butterflies known ; also wings of brilliant species 

 for microscopic purposes. Rare papilios much wanted for figur- 

 ing, condition immaterial, over two hundred already figured. — 

 Hudson, Railway Terrace, Crosslane, near Manchester. 



Two hundred and twenty foreign stamps used and unused, 

 valued at 11s. in exchange for entomological apparatus, or good 

 collection Lepidoptera, or Coleoptera. — Thomas Mackie, 162 

 James Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. 



Offiiked, Rye's " British Beetles," 10s. 6d., sixteen coloured 

 plates; wanted, "Common British Fossils," by Editor of 

 Science-Gossip; or what offers? — T. Brewis, Boro' College 

 School, Rotherham. 



Offered, Cyclostyle, complete, quarto size. Wanted, equi- 

 valent in physiographical or geological books or implements. — 

 T. Brewis, Boro' College School, Rotherham. 



Offered Science-Gossip for 1883, new, bound, also "The 

 Mysteries of Creation Solved " (new) ; also "Six Months on 

 Duty " (new), for works on Astronomy and Natural History. — 

 W. M. H., AUtonfield School, Ashbourne. 



Wanted, Vertigo lilljeborgi (West), V. tuntida, V. alpcs- 

 tris, V. pmillti and V . minntissima. Other British land and 

 fresh-water shells in exchange. — W. Gain Tuxford, Newark. 



Duplicates: Atalanta, Io, Cardui, Galathea, Semele, Ti- 

 thonus, Hyperanthus, Egerides, Alexis, Phlojas, Bucephala, 

 Caja, Lucipares, Meticulosa, Oleracea, Fluctuata, Rhomboid- 

 area, Cratasgata, &c. Wanted, other Lepidoptera. — F. H. 

 Perry Coste. 15 Bruce Grove, Tottenham, N. 



Science-Gossip, wanted the following Nos., 43. 46, 51, 52, 

 55. 59. 67, 68, 72, 76, 83, 84, 210, 212-216, and for 1865-67, 1883, 

 and 1884. Numerous exchanges, periodicals, books, slides, 

 Natural History specimens, &C. — W. T. Taylor, Seymour 

 House, Keswick. 



Wux give chalk, gault, lower greensand, and post-tertiary 

 fossils, also land and fresh-water shells, for British lepidoptera, 

 micro-slides, or books. — A. Beales, 37 Kingsley Road, Maid- 

 stone. 



Will exchange parts and first 6 vols, of Science-Gossip for 

 " Zoologist," or bird skins in good condition. — J. R. Hewitson, 

 Knowle, Mirfield, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, eggs of moths, &c, for mounting. — R. J. Cowling, 

 47 Dockley Road, S.E. 



Will collect and forward specimens of shells, marine and land 

 seaweeds, and, during the coming season, butterflies from 

 counties Dublin and Wicklow. Lists sent. — John R. Redding, 

 165 North Strand Road, Dublin. 



A few micro-slides of archegonia and antheridia of mosses 

 and hepatics to exchange for other good slides ; send lists to 

 W. G. Green, 2j Triangle, Bristol. 



Exchangb offers requested for " Science for All," vol. i. 

 and last monthly parts; "Amateur Work," 3 vols., and last 

 parts; "European Ferns," eighteen yd. parts; " Cassell's 

 Popular Educator," cost $os. " Beale on the Microscope" 

 wanted. — H. Ebbage, Halesworth, Suffolk. 



Wanted, batches of living Helices aspeisa, nemoralis, hor- 

 tensis, and arbustorum, from different soils ; exchange land 

 and freshwater shells. — B. Hudson, 15 Waterloo Road, Middles- 

 brough. 



Wanted, to exchange upwards of 100 species of North 

 American eggs, all side-blown, in complete clutches, with full 

 data, for clutches of eggs on British list. Correspondence 

 solicited by — W. Wells Bladen, Stone, Staffordshire. 



Exchange for other land or freshwater, fine Anodonta 

 anatina, A. cygnus, Unio pictorum, U. tumidus, Unio sp. 

 America, Paludina vivipara, Limnea anricularia, L. stag- 

 nalis, Helix pomatia, H. aspersa, P. corneus. — James Ellison, 

 Stecton, Leeds. 



Wanted, to exchange " Knowledge," vol. v., January to 

 June, 1884, for the " Postal Microscopical Journal," 1884. — 

 J. B. J., 145 Highbury New Park, London. 



Wanted, first seven numbers of " Knowledge," also Nos. 36, 

 40,86,115; will give in exchange micro slides, apparatus, or 

 books. Physiological slides to exchange for others of interest. 

 — W. Tutcher, 22 North Road, Bristol. 



Skins of spotted eagle, male and female ; exchange for Ice- 

 land or Greenland falcon. — Henry Walton, Birtley, Chester-le- 

 Street, co. Durham. 



Wanted, birds' eggs, named and side-blown, in exchange for 

 exotic and British butterflies and moths, also a good second- 

 hand cabinet for birds' eggs. — R. Garfit, Vine House, Alford, 

 Lincolnshire. 



Wanted, good material for mounting, more especially insects 

 (in spirit) ; will give well-mounted slides in exchange. — Charles 

 Collins, Bristol House, Harlesden, N.W. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Collector's Manual of British Land and Freshwater 

 Shells," by Lionel E. Adams. London: George Bell & Sons. — 

 " The Student's Botany," by C. MacDowell Cosgrave, M.D. 

 Dublin : Fannin & Co. — " Medical Annual for 1885," edited by 

 Dr. Percy Wilde. London: Henry Kimpton. — "Cactaceous 

 Plants : their History and Culture," by Lewis Castle. 171 Fleet 

 Street. — "Popular Science News" (Boston). — "American 

 Naturalist." — " Report and Proceedings of Belfast Naturalists' 

 Field Club." — "Science." — "Journal of New York Micro- 

 scopical Society." — "Belgravia." — "Gentleman's Magazine." 

 — "Midland Naturalist." — "Ben Brierley's Journal." &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from :— 

 M. A. M — E. W. O'M.— J. E. R.— F. H. P.— J. A. W.— 

 R. W. G.— J. H. M.— R. L. H— A. B.— E. K. L.— J. S.— 



F. M. P.— J. H.— E. H.-F. S.— H. M. B.— A. W. H.— J. S. 

 C T. M.— F. W.— D. D.— E. G. H.— C. A. M.— W. I.— 

 T. D. A. C— J- M. B. T.— R. McA.— J. F. C— J. H. L.— 

 J. T. R.— E. B. L. B.— J. B.— E. L— J. W. H.— A. E. H.— 

 A. K.— J. E. K.-F. C— F. A.— W. S.— J. J. A.— L. C— 

 C. P.— J. T. T. R.-C. F. W.— W. I.— F. C. D. B.— J. H.— 

 C. C— A. A. R.-B. W.— R. C— W. E. G.— J. T. R.— J. E. L. 

 _H.— A. W. F.— T. M.— T. W. B.-W. M. H.— W. T. T.— 

 J. W.— G. M. B.— E. A.— F. H. P. C— W. G.— A. B.— J. R. H. 

 — R. J. C— H. F.— R. D.— A. H. S— J. R. R— A. M. P.— 



G. E. E.— H. E.— F. S.— B. H.— W. H. B.— W. W. B.— J. E. 

 — I. B. J.— W. T.— W. B.— A. H. S.— W. S.— W. O.— H. W. 

 — C. C— A. E R.-R. G.— C. P. P.— H. S. W.— H. C. C— 

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