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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Wanted, to exchange with some one living in North Brftain, 

 mosses and hepaticse from Gloucestershire. — E. J. Elliott, 

 Middle Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire. 



Ceylon insects, mainly lepidoptera, to exxhange for other 

 exotic lepidoptera or entomological micro, slides . — Surgeon 

 Clements, Army Medical Staff, care of P.M. O., Ceylon. 



Offered, a geologicil collection of from eighty to a hundred 

 well-selected and named specimens for good chemical balance ; 

 or what offers in books either on geology, botany, chemistry, or 

 animal physiology ? — J. T. Backland, 93 High Street, Paisley, 

 N.B. 



What offers in dried plants for Ophioglossum Lusitanicum ? 

 — Apply, Free Museum, Paisley, N.B. 



Wanted, bats, any others than the common, long-eared, or 

 Daubenton's bats, either bkins or in flesh, for palmated smooth 

 newt [Lissottiton palmipcs), in spirit. — J. T. Backland, 93 High 

 Street, Paisley, N.B. 



X. Unmouni ed spores of Equisetitm arvense (very curious) for 

 well-mounted slide or prepared material. — W. Sim, Gourdas, 

 Fyvie, N.B. 



Duplicates: L. stagnalis and P. corneus (very fine), L. 

 peregra, P. complanatits, P. spirorbis, D. polymorpJia, H . pi- 

 sana, H. lupicida, var. alba of H . virgata, H. caperata, H . 

 arbustorum, H. ericetorum, H. rufescens, C. rngosa, &c. — 

 Desiderata very numerous, land, freshwater, and marine shells ; 

 also algae. — W. Hewett, 26 Clarence Street, York. 



Humatopinus atini 'and other well-mounted slides in exchange 

 for lantern photos or micro slides. — Dr. Moorhead, Errigle, 

 Cootehill, Ireland. 



Eighteen packets of unmounted microscopic material sent 

 in exchange for one well-mounted slide and stamp. — M. B., 

 9 Kirkdale, Sydenham, S.E. 



A large quantity of British and foreign shells, minerals, &c, 

 in exchange for a small white wood microscopical cabinet, glass 

 door required, to hold 144 slides. — M. B., 9 Kirkdale, Syden- 

 ham, S.E. 



Wanted, English, silver, and copper coins, tokens, and 

 medals ; good exchange offered in fossils and other objects of 

 natural history. — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, well-mounted slides of eggs of insects, moth eggs 

 preferred ; first-class slides in exchange. — George Timmins, 

 Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A. 



Wanted, October, i863, number of "Anthropological 

 Review," a fair price, or a copy of " A Few Words on Zoology," 

 together with "A Short Account of Giraffe," by J. H. Garrit, 

 given in exchange ; also Vogt, " Lectures on Man," English 

 translation, if not very expensive. — John H. Garfit, The Cairns, 

 Boston, Lincolnshire. 



Duplicates : Rhamni, Cardui, Atalanta, Tages, Selene, 

 Tithonus, Adonis, Corydon, S. popidi, Oculea, Lllmata, Chi, 

 Bipunctaria, Festucae, Glyphica, Illumaria, Betularia, Comitata, 

 Bucephala, Perla, Caeruleocephala, Menthastii, Auriflua. De- 

 siderata: British birds' eggs, side blown, or butterflies and 

 moths. — F. J. Rasell, 30 Argyle Street, S. James End, 

 Northampton. 



Duplicates: Io, Atalanta, Corydon, Cardamines, Linea, 

 S. popidi, Ligustri, Z. Trifolii, Potatoria, Bucephala, Betularia, 

 Atomaria, Piniaria, Rhomboidaria, Perla, Instabilis, Cubicu- 

 laris, Haworthii, Libatrix, Meticulosa, OxycanthaeJ Spadicea, 

 Lota, Hybridalis, Cerella. Desiderata numerous. Accepted 

 offers answered by return of post. — George Balding, Ruby 

 Street, Wisbech. 



British birds' eggs. — Duplicates: coot, moorhen, red-legged 

 partridge, &c. Desiderata very numerous. — George Balding, 

 Ruby Street, Wisbech. 



Wanted, odd back numbers of scientific periodicals : Science- 

 Gossip, "Nature," "Zoologist," "Journal of Conchology," 

 &c. Will give in return a good series of British Shells. — S. C. 

 Cockerell, 51 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Shells for exchange : L. glutinosa, A. acicula, Z. e.xcavatus, 

 Bulla hydatis, Lit. ncritoides, Physa acuta (from Kew 

 Gardens), and many others. Wanted, Acme, Vertigo, and 

 varieties of nemoralis, hortensis, &c. — S. C. Cockerell, 51 Wood- 

 stock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Micro slides offered in exchange for scientific books and 

 instruments. — Samuel M. Malcolmson, M.D., 55 Great Victoria 

 Street, Eelfast. 



Fossils. — Over 400 specimens, miocene, eocene, chalk, lias, 

 oolite, from Red Crag, Bognor, Barton Cliff, Shepton Mallet, 

 Lyme Regis, and Portland ; also a few mineral and rock speci- 

 mens from Cornwall, in exchange for two pairs of canaries for 

 breeding purposes, or Morriss's "British Birds." — T. Lawson, 

 9 Marshall Street, Golden Square, W. 



Offers wanted in exchange for 240 birds' eggs, many varie- 

 ties, both land and water birds. — Alfred Draper, Abbey Dale 

 Road, Sheffield. 



Wanted, microscopist's collecting case, net, &c. — A. Draper, 

 275 Abbey Dale Road, Sheffield. 



Wanted, members for Botanical Evercirculator. Full par- 

 ticulars on application to — T. F. Uttley, 17 Brazennose Street, 

 Albert Square, Manchester. 



Wanted, back numbers of Science-Gossip, from commence- 

 ment to present date, to complete volumes. Send list of spare 

 numbers for exchange to— T. F. Uttley, 17 Brazennose Street, 

 Albert Square, Manchester. 



Science-GosS'P, clean, 1S82, 1883, 1884, plates of "Graphic 

 Microscopy." What offers?— John Kitchin, Grosvenor Place, 

 Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham. 



Science-Gossip, 1880 (unbound and in good preservation), 

 for good scientific (natural history) book of same value. — Arthur 

 Ayling, Tarrant Street, Arundel, Sussex. 



Offered, "Scientific Recreations" (unbound and in excel- 

 lent condition^, for vols. ii. or iii. of "Science for All," or other 

 good scientific books or periodicals. — Arthur Ayling, Tarrant 

 Street, Arundel, Sussex. 



Wanted, Continental plants in exchange for other Conti- 

 nental or English plants. — A. R. Waller, Low Ousegate, York. 



1500 British moths (many rare), including 400 species, for 

 exchange for a similar collection of British Coleoptera ; also 

 foreign butterflies for foreign Carabidae and Longicornia. — 

 Delancey Dods, 47 Chepstow Place, Bayswater. 



Most of the Longicornes and many of the Chrysomela 

 and Geodephaga for exchange. Desiderata : marine shells, 

 British and foreign. Lists sent. — G. Pullen, Free Library and 

 Museum, Derby. 



Wanted, fossils from Upper Miocene, Middle Eocene of 

 France, Upper Miocene of Belgium and Germany, Solenhofen 

 stone ; also foreign land, marine, and freshwater shells. Offered, 

 fossils and shells. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Polariscopic. — In exchange for any good micro photograph, 

 I will forward a very beautiful slide of copper sulphate, showing 

 circles on variegated ground. — Mathie, 42 McKinlay Street, 

 Glasgow. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 1883, in clean separate copies; 

 also with covers off for binding 1874 and 1875. Wanted, books 

 on British Flora. — A. V., Mount Cottage, Red Hill, Surrey. 



Offered, Black's "Three Feathers," 6s. edition, one vol., 

 post free, for last number of " Popular Science Review," edited 

 by Dallas, post free. Wanted, terms for this quarterly, second- 

 hand, post free. — Vicar, Salcombe Regis, Sidmouth. 



Wanted, to purchase a few specimens of flint implements 

 (British). — F. Chams, 10 Broomfield Road, Chelmsford. 



Reptiles in spirits, young crocodile, whip snake, viper, sea 

 snakes, scorpion, centipede, <&c.,in exchange for flint and stone 

 implements, or British birds' skins. — R. McAldowie, 12 St. 

 Nicholas Street, Aberdeen. 



Good specimens of British butterflies wanted in exchange 

 for local British plants. — F. and C. Towndrow, 2 Commercial 

 Buildings, Malvern Linlc. 



Will exchange a good selection of several hundred dried 

 specimens of British plants, for restoration or Elizabethan 

 dramas or poetry. Offers requested, silence negative. — W. 

 Roberts, jun., Heamoor, Penzance, Cornwall. 



Offered, "Illustrated Science Monthly," first two volumes, 

 cost 10s. ; wanted, botanical or other slides, lepidoptera, pupa;, 

 &c. — S. M. Wellwood, 320 Duke Street, Glasgow. 



Pinnules of Neuroptcris gigantea, from the coal measures of 

 South Staffordshire, given in exchange for other fossils. — A. M., 

 Martin's Hill House, Dudley. 



Wanted, good material for mounting, more especially insects 

 (in spirit) ; also a quantity of any one insect (providing it is not 

 common) ; well-mounted slides given in exchange. — C. Collins, 

 25 St. Mary's Road, Harlesden, N.W. 



Microscopic slides, by Watson & Son, to exchange for 

 others of similar value. — A. P. Williamson, Chapel Alberton, 

 Leeds. 



" Longman's Magazine," vols. 1-4 ; " English Illustrated 

 Magazine," vol. i. (both unbound) ; Cassell's "Illustrated Read- 

 ings," (2 vols, bound in one) ; offered in exchange for fossils, 

 corals, shells, &c. — H. L. E., 34 Ling Street, Liverpool. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 "Authors and Their Works," by Rev. Dr. Brewer.— "The 

 Magic Lantern and its Management," by T. C. Hepworth, 

 (both from Chatto & Windus). — " Midland Natura- 

 list." — "Gentleman's Magazine." — " Belgravia." — " Science 

 Monthly." — " Ben Brierley's Journal."— " Science." — "Ameri- 

 can Naturalist." — " Canadian Entomologist." — " Medico-legal 

 Journal of New York'" — " American Monthly Microscopical 

 Journal." — "The Botanical Gazette." — " Revue des deux 

 Mondes." — " La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." — " Cosmos." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to 12TH ult. from :— 

 T. M. R.— G. T. G.— D. O.— J. D. H.— W. G. C— W. R. P. 

 —J. F.-W. R.— E. O. M.— J. C. M.— W. S.— J. R. B.— 

 E. G. H.— W. T.— H. M.— T. H. M.— W. D.— Dr. P. Q. K.— 



E. W. O'M.— M. B.— J. E.— F. M.— F. S.— G. T.— J. H. G.— 

 C. S.— F. J. R— W. R., jun.— S. A. B.— W. H. C— S. R.— 

 S. M. M.— J. E. L.— T. F. W.— A. D.— W. W. B.— W. M.— 

 T. L.— J. M'C— A. V.— F. C— W. J. B.— A. C— W. M.— 

 T. D. A. E.— S. C. C— W. J. J.-R. McA.— J. G.— J. K.— 

 A. P. F. G.— W. H. P.— D. D.— G. B.-A. A.— A. R. W.— 

 S. H. V.— G. P. H.— W. P. C. C— J. W. B.— C. G. De.— 

 L. M.— J. B. M. T.— W. R.— A. M.— J. P. G.— H. W. L.— 



F. and C T.-F. W. H.— J. C. S.— A. W. F.— S. M. W.— 



G. E. E.— G. S.— W. R. S.— W. T.— H. F.— H. W. M.— C. R. 

 H. L. E.— J. E. C— S. C. C— A. P. W.— W. L. R. C— &c. 



