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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



I will send twelve packets of micro material in exchange for 

 a well-mounted slide. — G. A. Baiker, i Northwold Road, 

 Clapton, E. 



Sconce-Gossip, 1876-79, bound in cloth ; 1880 in numbers ; 

 also 1881, Jan. to April, Nov., Dec. ; 1882, Dec. ; Coleman's 

 "British Butterflies;" Wood's "Common Objects of the 

 Country;" Wood's " British Moths ;" Brown's "Astronomical 

 Geology." All the above clean copies, though marked with a 

 stamp ; will exchange for micro apparatus or material, or for 

 land and freshwater shells. — B. B. W., 2.3 Batoum Gardens, 

 West Kensington Park, W. 



Wanted, a good turntable : also skull of bull frog, and 

 skeleton of full-sized common frog. — K., The Manse, Bollington, 

 near Macclesfield. 



Wanted, lantern photographic slides; will exchange six 

 sculpture and twelve abbeys and cathedral i, six castles, and 

 twelve others, send list ; or will «ive microphotographs mounted 

 on 3 X 1 polished slips for lantern slides. — R. Blakeborough, 

 Guisborough. 



A double nose-piece to fit Hartnack's microscopes, made 

 specially by Collins, Great Portland Street, almost new ; 

 " Hogg on the Microscope," 6th edition, as good as new. 

 Wanted, last edition of Carpenter on " Beale on the Microscope 

 in Medicine."— E. R. T., 24 St. Patrick's Hill, Cork. 



Wanted, a pair of healthy bullfinches in exchange for either 

 vol. iii., iv., v., or vi. of " Boys' Own Paper," in monthly parts, 

 with piates and index in perfect order, or vols. i. and ii. of 

 Imison's " Elements of Science and Art," bound in tree calf. — 



E. P. Turner, 6 Dagnall Park Terrace, Selhurst, S.E. 

 Micro slides: wing of Papilis Paris (green scales on rich 



brown ground) for other good slide. Plea^e send box. — 

 A. Dovvnes, Glenmore, Waverley Road, Bristol. 



Duplicates: Amathusio phidippus, Agauisthos Orion, 

 Callidryaspkilas, M egahtra peletts, Papilio thoas. Desiderata : 

 other exotic butterflies, or pupa: of British lepidoptera. — Joseph 

 Anderson, jun., Chichester, Sussex. 



Fine examples of Australian foraminifera, selected and named, 

 including Discorbina, Valvulina, Clavalina, Patellina, Nubecu- 

 laria, and other rarities. Desiderata : Carpentaria, Tinoporus, 

 Cymbalopora, Hanerina, Cassidulina, or any of the rarer 

 species. Also rich foraminiferal material from the Tertiary 

 beds of England and the continent. — W. Howchin, Goodwood 

 East, Adelaide, South Australia. Parcels in bulk can be sent 

 for enclosure, addressed as above, to the care of R. Fenwick, 

 Sutton Street, Commercial Road East, London. 



Will forward ant parasites in exchange for anything useful 

 in microscopy. — H., 1 Madelaine Square, Liverpool. 



Wanted, a Rosszentmayer microscope stand. State ex- 

 change or price required to — S. C. L., 276 Middleton Road, 

 Oldham. 



" English Mechanic," Nos. 758 to 796, the following numbers 

 missing, 770, 776, 788, 790 ; exchange for fine cock and hen 

 bullfinch, or for a piping cock only. A printing machine and 

 type also wanted. — E. P. Turner, 6 Dagnall Park Terrace, 

 Selhurst. 



Wanted, a hen ring-dove in exchange for a blue pigeon. — 

 Frederick Harding, Shipley House, 13 York Road, Eastbourne. 



Will exchange one pair of blue pigeons for pair of dormice. 

 — Frederick Harding, Shipley House, 13 York Road, East- 

 bourne. 



First twenty-four parts of " Entomologists' Monthly Maga- 

 zine," foreign shells, a horn of rhinoceros, minerals, and sucking 

 fish (remora\ for foreign curios, or shells or micro slides. — 



F. M., 69 Duke Street, Old Trafford, Manchester. 

 Wanted, gold and silver medals, and collections containing 



rare foreign postage stamps, in exchange for natural history 

 specimens. — W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, following nests, with clutches of eags: dipper, ring 

 ouzel, nightingale, stonechat, whinchat, grasshopper warbler, 

 woodlark, cirl bunting, hawfinch, goldfinch, lesser redpole, &c. 

 Offered, eggs, insects, shells, and various natural history speci- 

 mens. — W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, various eggs in quantities, and nests with clutches 

 of eggs of uncommon species. Offered, British and exotic 

 insects and shells. — W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, 

 Bristol. 



L. C, Nos. 40, 1039, 1127, 1128, 1330, for exchange. Send 

 lists to— H. Purefoy FitzGerald, M.C.S., North Hall, Basing- 

 stoke. 



Wanted, the February and March, 1884, numbers of Science- 

 Gossip. State price or what wanted in exchange. — H. P. 

 FitzGerald, M.C.S., North Hall, Basingstoke. 



Offered, six vols, of " Knowledge," complete, up to De- 

 cember, 1884, first four bound, and a collection of birds' eggs, 

 in exchange for a good half-inch micro objective and slides. — ■ 

 C. B. Keene, All Saints, Derby. 



Wanted, any articles of bric-a-brac, viz., coins, tokens, 

 medals, seals, china, arms, armour, old Roman pottery, flint 

 flakes, or stone or bronze weapons, in exchange for fossils, 

 minerals, stuffed birds, &c — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, axial crystals, quartz plates, &c, for table polari- 

 scope, in exchange for lantern and micro slides. — H. E. Free- 

 man, 60 Plimsoll Road, Finsbury Park, N. 



British and Foreign birds' eggs offered for others not in 

 collection. — Dr. J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, Durham co. 



Will exchange Goldsmith's " History of the Earth and 

 Animated Nature," 4 vols., with plates, almost as good as new, 

 for manuals of British botany or geology. What offers? — 

 William Lyon, Broomhill Terrace, Keith. 



" Nature," vol. xi. ; the first two vols. " Magazine of Art ;" 

 also " Knowledge," two vols, of which are bound, Wanted, 

 micro slides in exchange, apparatus, or offers. — H. Moulton, 

 37 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 



Science-Gossip, complete for 1883 and 1884, unbound. 

 Wanted, Tyndall " On Sound," Wallace's " Natural Selection," 

 or Deschanel's "Physics," vols. i. and ii. — F. R. Tennant, 

 Port Hill, Stoke-on-Trent. 



Microscope slides wanted in exchange for pair of photo- 

 graphs. General Gordon and Colonel Burnaby, coloured in 

 oils on convex glasses, value ior. — Mr. Ebbage, Watton, 

 Norfolk. 



Vol. ii. "Christian Million," and several "Rare Bits" and 

 "Tit Bits," in exchange for natural history books or apparatus. 

 — Frederick Harding, Shipley House, York Road, Eastbourne. 



Shilling editions of Coleman's "Butterflies," Wood's 

 "Moths," Wood's "Beetles," and the three last numbers of 

 Science-Gossip with plates, will exchange for natural history 

 books or apparatus- — Frederick Harding, Shipley House, 

 York Road, Eastbourne. 



A very fine and complete collection of fossils from the chalk 

 of Surrey and Kent (specially rich in sharks' palate teeth, both 

 in variety and number) together with a collection of minerals 

 and crystals (including a group of amethyst crystals 40 inches 

 in circumference, and a slab of flexible sandstone) will be ex- 

 changed for English coins in fine preservation. — A.B., 97 

 Burton Road, Stockwell, S.W. 



" A large number of shells in duplicate. Wanted, other 

 shells, mounted molluscan palates, and back numbers of 

 scientific journals. — S. C. Cockerell, 51 Woodstock Road, 

 Bedford Park, Chiswick. 



Desiderata : 5". oblonga, P. roscnm, Vertigos, Acme 

 marine shells, and vars. of ncmoralis, hortensis, &c. Dupli- 

 cates : Testacella haliotidea, Z. glciber, A. acicula, L. glu- 

 tiuosa, P. pusilhim, &c. — S. C. Cockerell, 51 Woodstock Road, 

 Bedford Park, W. 



Wanted fossils, shells, or eggs, in exchange for chalk fossils, 

 nummulites, Trigonia, Gibbosa, &c. Also beetles from Peru 

 and Luscor ; staghorn, Ncciopliorus vcstigator, &c. — M. T. C, 

 Wrasenham Vicarage, Swaff ham, Norfolk. 



Offered for other species, either British or foreign : H. 

 revclata, Piscina, arbustorinn, aspersa v. temiior, P. contecta, 

 L. neritoides, V. verrucosa, H. titberctilata (Herm), M. acicn- 

 latus, CI. Rolphii, H. ventrosa, &c. — B. Tomlin, 59 Liverpool 

 Road, Chester. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip for 1884, complete with plates of 

 microscopy, unbound. Offers, quite new : " Among the Wild 

 Flowers," by Rev. H. Wood, or "Wild Flowers, where to find 

 and how to know them," by Spencer Thomson, M.D., L.R.C.S., 

 F.B.S.E., or pressed specimens of two rare centaureas ; C. cal- 

 citrapa and C. solstitialis. — Miss E. A., Dadnor, Ross. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 " The Worcester County Naturalist" (Mass.). — " Feuille des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes."—" Canadian Science Monthly." — "The 

 American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — " The Naturalist." 

 — "Journal of Conchology." — "Journal of the New York 

 Microscopical Society." — "Science." — " Report of _ the Ento- 

 mologist." — "Catalogue of the Exhibit of Economic Entomo- 

 logy." — " Proceedings of the Geologists' Association." — 

 "Canadian Entomologist." — "American Naturalist." — "The 

 Microtomist's Vade-Mecum," by Arthur Bolles Lee (London : 

 J. & A. Churchill).— " Transactions Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc," 

 vol. iii., parts 3 and 4. — " Report of S. London Entomolog. and 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. for 1884." — "Proceedings of Acad, of Nat. 

 Sciences of Philadelphia." — "Popular Science News." — Pro- 

 ceedings of the Holmesdale Natural History Club," 18S1-1883. 

 — " Handbook to the Geology of Shropshire," by J. D. La 

 Touche (London : Ed. Stanford). — " Revista Scientifica " 

 (Porto). 



Communications received up to iith ult. from: — 

 C. A. G.— A. S. B— F. R.— F. H. L.-W. T.— F. M.— F. F.— 

 R. B.— S. F.-J. E. K.-J. B. B.— W. S. S. & Co.-E. H.— 

 J. H. C R.-E. W. O'M—W.— E. R. T.-E. P. T.— J. E.— 

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

 W. H.-(H. A. K.)-G. A. B.-C. B.-H. B.-E. T. D.— 

 H. A. W.— F. S.— H. E. F.-B. B.-E. B. L. B.— H. A. F.— 

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

 J. R. R.— E. P. T.— A. R. W.-E. A.— B. T.— A. B.-F. H.— 

 T. W. O.-Mr. E.— H. F.-F. M.— D. B— J. T. T. R.— 

 W. W. B.-W. H. P.-A. A.— C. T. M.— E. C— M. L. S.— 

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

 H . S. W.— J. R.-C. F. F.-H. W. K.-W. L.-C. B. K.— 

 A M. P.-A. D.— W. K. M.— J. F.— H. L.— Dr. A. B. G.— 

 G. H.— 0. P. C— J. E.-A. D— H. G. G.-G. E. T.— 

 M. W. N.— C. S.— W. H. H.— T. D. A. C— H. H.— J. M. C— 

 W. T.— T. S.— H. M.— C. M.— J. H.— B. B. W.— T. N. K.— 

 &c, &c. 



