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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



W._H. — Your box when opened (out of doors), on July 30, 

 contained a most unsavoury mess, which had apparently in- 

 fected the parcel in more ways than one. 



EXCHANGES. 



Several well-mounted slides of micro fungi, plant hairs, &c, 

 for other well-mounted slides, or for books on microscopy and 

 biology. — James W. Horton, Brayford Wharf, Lincoln. 



A capital air-pump, worked by double rack and pinion 

 movement, with receiver, &c, complete. Offers solicited. — 

 Henry Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



Offers requested for injected tissues of cat, rabbit, guinea- 

 pig, and hedgehog, all carmine injected and first class. — Henry 

 Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



First-class microscopical slides offered in exchange for fresh 

 healthy human tissues. — Arthur J. Doherty, 33 Burlington 

 Street, Manchester. 



Horns of red deer, ibex, &c, for natural history books or 

 specimens. Wanted, larvae of Lepidoptera, birds' skins, shells, 

 British or 'foreign. — S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park Museum, 

 Huddersfield. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip, Nos. 193-200, 202, for 1881, in 

 exchange for Lepidoptera, fossils, shells, &c. — A. Shepherd, 

 70 Brecknock Road, N. 



Wanted, in exchange for books, vols, of " Bible Educator " 

 {Cassell's), with the exception of first vol., Geikie's " Hours 

 with the Bible," excepting first vol., or McChayne's " Me- 

 morials." — John Millie, Clarence House, Inverkeithing. 



Microscope slides. What offers? Fishing-rod tackle and 

 books on angling wanted ; or a natural history. — Mr. Ebbage, 

 8 Lowfield Street, Dartford, Kent. 



Wray's binocular microscope, 22 inches high, glass revolving 

 stage and object-carrier, eye-pieces, 2 B's and a C (Wray's 

 best), accessories, without objectives. Will exchange for mo- 

 nocular 3 in. microscope with objectives. — R. E. L., 9 Lome 

 Terrace, Fallowfield, Manchester. 



Aquarium, octagon shape, slate bottom, good condition, size 

 16 in. high by 15 across, sloping top ; would exchange a good 

 parrot's cage or first-class microscopic objects; open to other 

 offers except books or micro apparatus. — R. Mason, 24 Park 

 Road, Clapham, London, S.W. 



Wanted, Reeve's " Conchologia Iconica," those volumes on 

 Unionidae, Helicidse, and parts on Melania and Rissoidae. 

 Offer, in exchange for any volume named, over 300 species 

 American Unionidae, Helicidae, or Strepomatids.— R. Ellsworth 

 Call, 619, 10th Street, W., Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A. 



Required, vol. xi. of " Nature," in any decent condition, in 

 exchange for a selection to be agreed upon value from the fol- 

 lowing, which are all as good as new : — Trimmer and Dyer's 

 " Flora of Middlesex," Asa Gray's " Handbook of Botany," 

 Herschel's " Meteorology," Golding Bird's " Nat. Philosophy," 

 Carpenter's " Microscope," Huxley and Martin's " Biology ;" 

 also one or more of the above list for a few specimens of corals, 

 in good condition. — G. F. Nest, Jedburgh, N.B. 



Side-blown eggs, separate or in clutches, ring ouzel, Ray's 

 wagtail, gray wagtail, rock pipit, goldfinch, redpole, brambling, 

 for others. — Jas. Ellison, Steeton, Leeds. 



Dr. Lang's " Butterflies of Europe," uncut, to exchange for 

 birds' eggs, corals, or any natural history objects. — Jas. Ellison, 

 Steeton, Leeds. 



Wanted, 1437, 1552, 1553, 1229, 1222, 1618, 1292, 360. In 

 exchange, 19, 1244, 800, 1504, 1293, 944, 1385, and others. — 

 Rev. F. H. Arnold, Hermitage, Emsworth. 



Wanted, books by F. O. Morris, Yarrell, or Bewick. Will 

 give liberal exchange in miscellaneous works.— P. Payne, The 

 Borough, Hinckley. 



Wanted, Stark's " British Mosses." Will give good micro 

 slides in exchange. — Samuel M. Malcolmson, M.D., 55 Great 

 Victoria Street, Belfast. 



Wanted, a good secondhand copy of Newman's " British 

 Butterflies and Moths." Will give in exchange micro slides, 

 natural history objects, &c. — F. R. Rowley, 60 Lower Hastings 

 Street, Southfields, Leicester. 



Fine specimens of U. Margariti/er from V'orkshire Esk. 

 Wanted, Vertigo, B. moutanus, also varieties of Unio, Ano- 

 donta, and Helix.— B. Hudson, 15 Waterloo Road, Middles- 

 brough. 



Wanted, nests of lesser whitethroat, stonechat, tree-pipit, 

 reed warbler, great tit, and blackcap, for side-blown eggs of 

 coot, great tit, rook, herring gull, &c. — A. A. ,Shaw, Market 

 Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. 



Eggs of osprey, cuckoo, woodpecker, heron, grebe, gull, tern, 

 and petrel, to exchange for others not in collection. Wanted, 

 ornithological works, also any odd plates or numbers of old 

 magazines or works on ornithology. — Dr. J. T. T. Reed, 

 Ryhope, Durham Co. 



Wanted, works on zoology, particularly Parker's " Zootomy," 

 and those by Huxley. Will exchange Gibbon's " Imperial 

 Stamp Album," containing about 425 stamps (many old and 

 very rare), also small microscope. — Jas. Hornell, 123 Canning 

 Street, Liverpool. 



For exchange, skeleton of frog. What offers in micro slides ? 

 — J. Boggust, Alton, Hants. 



British "marine shells in exchange for the rarer land and 

 freshwater shells. Wanted, Pisidium, Paludina, Hydrobia, 

 Vertigos, &c. Lists sent.— A. Alletsee, 15 Roslyn Terrace, 

 Redland, Bristol. 



Marine shells: Cardium aculeatum, C. tuberculatum, C. 

 eckinatunt, Bulla hydatis, A. pes-pelicani, Aplysia kybrida. 

 Many others, taken alive and in fine condition. Lists from — 

 C. D. S., Maplewell, Loughborough. 



Offered, a glass aquarium, 42 in. in circum., on stand ; also 

 "Knowledge" for 1884 and 1885, clean, unbound; or foreign 

 shells, for book on geology or fossils. — George E. East, jun., 

 241 Evering Road, Upper Clapton, E. 



Letts's Popular Atlas, latest edition, 4 vols., 156 maps, with 

 index, unbound, in cloth cover. Exchange for geological 

 books, fossils, &c. — H. P. Dodridge, 7 Wharton Street, W.C. 



Well-blown eggs of mute swan, blackcap warbler, herring 

 gull, great b. b. gull, less b. b. gull, com. gull, kittiwake, jack- 

 daw, night heron, and puffin, for other good eggs. Unaccepted 

 offers not answered.— W. H. Heathcote, 61 Avenham Lane, 

 Preston, Lancashire. 



Duplicates : Pisidium roseum, Paludina contecta, P. vivi- 

 para, Flanorbis lineatus, B. Leachii, and a large number of 

 other species. Rare or local shells, land, freshwater, or marine, 

 wanted in exchange ; also back numbers of the " Journal of 

 Conchology." For any one species of the above send box and 

 stamped label to — S. C. Cockerell, si Woodstock Road, Bedford 

 Park, Chiswick, W. 



Will exchange 2 doz. good histological specimens, well 

 mounted, for a fox terrier, a dog. — Henry Price, 102 Munton 

 Road, New Kent Road, London, S.E. 



Wanted mounted slides of good diatoms, named, in ex- 

 change for living specimens of Hydra viridis, and Alcyonella 

 stagnoritm. — H. Relton, 5 Carlton Terrace, Low Fell, co. 

 Durham. 



"Illustrated Carpenter and Builder," 6 vols, cloth, and 

 Cassell's "Illustrated Russo-Turkish War." 2 vols., hand- 

 somely bound, offered in exchange for micro-slides, no anato- 

 mical. — R. Ridings, 1 Hampton Terrace, Lisburn Road, 

 Belfast. 



Wanted, shells not in collection, in exchange for Sph. rivi- 

 cola, Neritina Jiuviatilis, PI. nitidus, Testacella hatiolidea, 

 Lituax Icevis, Vertigo autivertigo, &c. — F. Fenn, 20 Wood- 

 stock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 " Scientific Romances, No. II.— The Persian King, or the 

 Law of the Valley," by C. H. Hinton, B.A. (Sonnenschein & 

 Co.). — " The Young Collector, British Butterflies, Moths 

 and Beetles," by W. F. Kirby ( Sonnenschein & Co.) — "A 

 Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field- 

 books of a Sportsman and Naturalist," by C. St. John, 2 

 vols. (Edinburgh: David Douglas). — " Comstock Mining and 

 Miners," by Eliot Lord (U. S. Geol. Survey). — "Contributions 

 to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia," by 

 W. M. Fontaine (U. S. Geol. Survey.) — "On the Quaternary 

 and Recent Mollusca of the Great Basin," &c, by R. Ellsworth 

 Call (U. S. Geol. Survey).— "Bulletins" of the U. S. Geol. 

 Survey, Nos. 2-6. — " Transactions of the Essex Field Club." — 

 "Journal of Proceedings of the Essex Field Club." — "Cana- 

 dian Science Monthly."- — " Proceedings of the Geologists' As- 

 sociation." — " Science." — " Canadian Entomologist." — " Ben 

 Brierley's Journal." — " Bulletin of the Des Moines Academy 

 of Science," vol i., No. 1.— "The Journal of Conchology." — 

 " What is a Plant?" by H. W. S. Worsley-Benison, F.L.S.— 

 " The American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — " The 

 Asclepiad." — " The Geological Magazine." — " The Animal 

 World." — " The Revival of British Industries." — " Once a 

 Month " (Melbourne, Australia). — " Feuille des Jeunes Natur- 

 alistes." — " Annales de la Societe Beige de Microscopie, 

 1883-4."— "The Naturalist."— " The Midland Naturalist"— 

 " The Illustrated Science Monthly."—" A Dictionary of British 

 Plant Names," by H. Purefoy Fitzgerald, (London: Bailliere, 

 Tindal & Cox.) — " Transactions of the Chichester and West 

 Sussex Natural History and Microscopical Society," March, 

 1885. — "Testacella Cuvier," and "On Land and Freshwater 

 Mollusca of Dorsetshire," by J. C. Mansel Pleydell, F.L.S. — 

 "The Canadian Entomologist." 



Communications received up to iith ult. from:— 

 H. V.— G. F. N.— J. G.— J. B.— T. S.— W. E. C— J. W. H.— 

 T. M.-S. L. M.-T. B.— A. H. S.-H. R.-E.— W. W. I.— 

 P. M.— T. P.— D. M. H.— A. S. M.— H. C— B. L.— A. J. D. 

 —J. T. K.— R. E. C— A. L.— W. K. S.— H. W. S. W. B.— 

 A. O.-W. H.— R. E. L.-F. J. W.-H. W. K.— W. C.-J.W. 

 — T. H. M.— W. W. H.— A. S. W.— R. M.— Y.— S. M. M — 

 C. P— T. D. A. C— C. G.— P. P.— F. H. A.— J. E.— W. le T. 

 — R. H. W.— E. G.— E. A. S— F. R. R.— F. S.— F. P. D.— 

 S. L.— M. H. R.-J. C.-D. B.— J. W. O.— G. R.— H. P.— 

 F. F.— G. B.-W. H. H.-S. C. C.-W. H.— H. P. D.-J. B. 

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

 — B. H.— J. G.— E. de C— R. R— E. H.— G. H. B.— 

 L. G. J. E.— &c, &c. 



