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HARD WJCKE'S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



New lantern slides of Scottish scenery (unmounted) in ex- 

 change for others. Lists from — J. M. Bain, 12 Waterloo Street, 

 Glasgow. 



Wanted, British land and freshwater shells. Offered in 

 exchange, micro-material, slides, or other shells. — J. Moore, 

 86 Porchester Street, Birmingham. 



Wanted, good chalk fossils ; send list ; also flint implements in 

 exchange for fossils from other formations. — Geo. E East, 

 Junior, 10 Basinghall Street, London, E.C 



Wanted, Sacns' "Botany," Hooker's "Students' Flora." 

 Babington's "Manual," and other scientific books. Will 

 give good micro-slides in exchange. — Samuel M. Malcomson, 

 M.D., 55 Great Victoria Street, Belfast. 



Wanted, foreign Lepidoptera or good English, in exchange 

 for a series of 41 well-mounted micro-slides of British and foreign 

 zoophytes, all different, and all named. — J. Lilley, 2 Royal 

 Promenade, Clifton. 



Side-blown eggs, one hole : starling, wood pigeon, blackbird, 

 thrush, redstart, house sparrow, greenfinch, brown linnet, 

 yellow bunting, chaffinch, turtle dove. Desiderata, ova, pupae, 

 butterflies, moths, or British birds' eggs. — F. J. Rasell, ,9 

 Raglan Street, Peas Hill Road, Nottingham. 



Valuable collection of British land, freshwater, and marine 

 shells, 360 species, nearly 2000 specimens; offers requested. — 

 Thos. H. Hedworih, Dunston-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, the " Natural History of Selborne," fully illus- 

 trated, "Familiar Wild Birds," Brown's "Practical Taxi- 

 dermy," Cassell's "European Moths;" will exchange several 

 good books, 2 fine cases of staffed birds, and about 400 duplicate 

 specimens of moths, good, for others or birds' eggs, and birds 

 for stuffing. — Joseph Bates, 10 Orchard Terrace, Welling- 

 borough. 



Wanted, an £ inch objective ; will exchange 3 vols, of 

 " Picturesque Europe," bound in halt-calf, new. Cost ,£5 14J. 

 — S. S. Ovens, 150 Lintburn Street, Galashiels. 



Wanted, L. C, 7th edition, 106, 358, 611, 979; offered, 575, 

 500, 1646, 1650, and many others. Sute wants to W. W. Reeves, 

 2 Geneva Road, Brixton, S.W. 



WELL-made cabinet, 12 drawers, graduated in depth, nearly 

 new. Mahogany show- cases, and over 200 species of shells for 

 exchange. What offers? Fossils from Lpper Miocene of 

 France preferred. — Miss Lintcr, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Subscribers' edition of Cassell's "History of the United 

 States," by Edmund Ullier, 3 vols., complete, unbound, pro- 

 fusely illustrated with wooi engravings, and 30 steel plates ; 

 cost 30.S., exchange for Geikie's or other good text-book of 

 geology or geological cabinet. — H. P. Dodridge, 7 Wharton 

 Street, W.C. 



Wanted, fossils, any formation, in exchange for about 150 

 butterflies, all good specimens. — A. E. Dodridge, 7 Wharton 

 btreet, W.C. 



Wanted, Berkeley's "Mosses" in exchange for mosses or 

 good fossils. — Mrs. Bishop, The Platts, Watford. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip, No. 230, February 1884. Offered, 

 two well-mounted micro slides ; or, if preferred is. will be paid. 

 — W. J. Atkinson, 131 Queen's Road, Peckham, S.E. 



Micro slides: a number of well-mounted duplicates in ex- 

 change for others or good material ; also a lot of miscellaneous 

 unmounted objects for disposal. — Mathie, 42 McKinlay Street, 

 Glasgow. 



Hall's " Dictionary of Science," fine old work in three large 

 folio volumes, 150 full-page plates, date about 1790, in exchange 

 for good high-power for microscope or accessories, paraboloid. — 

 Henry Kendall, B.A., 17 Munition Road, Liverpool. 



Wanted, a few ounces of foraminileral sand lrom Dog's Bay, 

 Ireland ; will give in exchange micro slides. State requirements 

 to — Edward Halkyard, The tirs, Knutsford, Cheshire. 



Duplicates: Balea perversa, Trochus lineatus, T. magus, 

 Venus exoleta, O. otis, Lascea rubra, P. glycymeris, Tapes 

 virgineus, Venus verrucosa, H. tuberculata, Helix pisaua, 

 Trochus agathensis, E issoa striata, Helix aspersa var. tenuior, 

 L. neritoides, &c. Desiderata: British and foreign shells. — 

 B. Tomlin, Pembroke College, Cambridge. 



Fresh collected "cluster cups" on the large willow herb, 

 CEcidium Epilobii, neatly mounted, offered in exchange for 

 other slides, anatomical ones preferred. Send list. — G. Garrett, 

 30 Palmerston Road, Ipswich. 



Duplicates: Lascea rubra, Trochus lineatus, T. zi?y- 

 phinus, Balea per-aersa, Rissoa caucellata, F. Graca, £. rosea, 

 IE. acicutalus (a few), Hydrobia ventrosa. Desiderata : shells, 

 British and foreign. — B. Tomlin, 59 Liverpool Road, Chester. 



British shells, including CI. biplicata, H. lamellata, Pal. 

 contecta, Ach. acicula, Odostomia plicata, O. rissoides, O. do- 

 lioliforniis, and a large number of others. Wanted, rare 

 species and varieties, or back numbers of " The Portfolio " and 

 other art journals. — S. C. Cockerell, 51 Woodstock Road, Bed- 

 ford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Will exchange the following and others for British marine 

 or land and freshwater shells : Testaceila haliotidea, Z. glabcr, 

 Z. radiatulus, Z. nitidus, V. antivertigo, CI. biplicata, and 

 C minimum. — F. G. Fenn, 20 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, 

 Chiswick, W. 



Wanted, "Trans Linn. Soc." (Zool.), Dec 1883; will give 

 subsequent parts, equal value. — F. N. Williams, F.G.S., 

 181 High Street, Brentford. 



Two neat book-boxes, 15 X n, corked for insects, gold let- 

 tered. Wanted in exchange, pupae of Saturnia pyri, S. Jo, 

 Samia Cecropia, Tclea yama-mai, imagos of exotic Lepi- 

 doptera, set or in papers. — Robert Laddiman, Hellesdon Road, 

 Norwich. 



Variety of double-stained wood sections, dahlia, vine, elder, 

 &c, to exchange for other good slides. — H. B. Linthorn, 

 130 Hampton Road, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, localised Foraminifera from the chalk of Ireland, 

 south and east of England, also from other sources, unmounted. 

 Good micro slides offered in exchange. — Calx, 15 Horton Lane, 

 Bradford. 



Will give Cynthia and Pernyi cocoons forMachaon, Sinapis, 

 Crataegi, Hyale, Daplidice, C. album, Antiopa, Sibylla, Epi- 

 phron, //'. album. — J. Roseburgh, 18 Bank Close, Galashiels. 



I have been collecting land and freshwater shells for some 

 little time, but I find great difficulty in naming my specimens. 

 Would some reader of Science-Gossip kindly help me? — C. 

 Chaytor, Scrafton Lodge, Middleham, Yorkshire. 



What offers for, fin-spines, teeth, scales, palates, vertebras, 

 and bones of fish from coal measures '1 — T. D. Atkinson, Tibshelf 

 Colliery, Alfreton. 



Seven species of S. American bird skins, in good order. 

 Also Science-Gossip for 1872,-3,-4,-5, in 2 vols. Wanted 

 Wood's " Nat. Hist." (Mammalia), and " Insects at Home." 

 For particulars write to J. H. Keen, 18 Church Street, Spital- 

 fields, E. 



WELL-finished slides, micro-fungi, spicules of sponges and 

 gorgonias, palates of mollusca, &c, for other good-mounted or 

 prepared objects. — A. D. Thompson, 139 Shirwood Street, 

 Nottingham. 



Wanted, books on natural history, in exchange for well- 

 mounted micro-slides. Botanical or insecta. — W. S. Anderson, 

 7 Granby Street, Ilkeston. 



Will exchange, L. L. Clark's " Seaweeds." J. G. Wood's 

 "Common Objects of the Microscope," and Thos. Moore's 

 " British Ferns " for other natural history books. — W. S. 

 Anderson, 7 Granby Street, Ilkeston. 



MicRO-slides, well-mounted, of vegetable sections, trans, and 

 vert., double stained, and others, in exchange for mosses or 

 algse. — Rev. H. W. Lett, Lurgan. j 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 " Palaeontology of the Eureka District," by C. D. Walcott 

 Proceedings of Geologists' Association, (V. S. Geol. Surv.). — 

 "Report of Rugby School Nat. Hist. Soc." — "Journal of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society." — "The Naturalists' World." — 

 " Ben Bnerley's Journal." — " The Train." — " Cosmos."—" The 

 Botanical Gazette."—" Science."—" The Asclepiad."— " Liver- 

 pool, Science Students' Association."—" Proceedings of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia." — "The Cana- 

 dian Entomologist." — "The American Monthly Microscopical 

 Journal."— "The Amateur Photographer."— " Ben Brierley's 

 Journal."— "The Gardening World." — " Rochdale Field 

 Naturalist's Journal."— " Observations on Zoogloeae," by W. 

 Trelease.— " The Poets' Beasts," by Phil. Robinson (Chatto 

 & Windus). — " Myths and Dreams," by Edward Clodd 

 (Chatto & Windus).— "The World's Lumber Room," by 

 Selina Gaye (Cassell & Co.).— "The Ocean, a Treatise on 

 Ocean Currents and Tides," &c, by W. Leighton Jordan, 

 F.R.G.S. (London, Longmans).— "The Wanderings of Animals 

 and Plants," by Victor Heme, edited by J. S. Stallybrass (Lon- 

 don, Swan Sonnenschein& Co.)— "Short Studies from Nature" 

 (Cassell & Co.).— " Proceedings of the Liverpool Hist, and 

 Phil. Soc," vol. 38.— " Chemical Students' Manual," by H. L. 

 Buckeridge (London Thos. Murby).— " Heat, Sound, and 

 Light," by R. Wormell (London, Thos. Murby). — "The 

 Aryan Maori," by Edward Tregear (Wellington, Geo. Dids- 

 bury).— " British Cage Birds," by R. L. Wallace, parts 2 and 3 

 (London, L. U. Gill).—" Poultry," parts 1 and 2, by Jos. Long 

 (L. U. Gill).—" Book of the Goat," by H. S. H. Pegler, part 1 

 (L. U. Gill).—" Fancy Pigeons," parts 1 and 2, by J. C. Lyell 

 (L. U. Gill).—" Longitude by Lunar Distances," by Major H. 

 Wilberforce Clarke (London, W. H. Allen & Co.) 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult from : — 



B. T.— R. N. L.— C. R.— A. C. R. H.— J. W. T.— G. S. S— 



C. H. J.— F. J. W.— J. R.— J. A. W.— M. C. R.— W. K. M.— 



E. L.— O. W. J.— B. T.— J. A. jun.— A. W.— C. B. H — 

 B. p._W. W.— G. G.-J. W. P.— B. T.— H. B.— J. K.— 



F. G L.— T. F. U.— J. W. T.-A. S.— T. C M.— J. B. M.— 

 T. H. B.— T. J. D.— C. L.— F. N. W.-H. V.-J. T.— 

 T. D. A. C.-M. H. R.— J. M. B.-T. F. U.— H. P. M.— A. J. 

 -J. M.-H. D.-G. E. C— J. W. O.-H. E.-C. L. J.- 

 Dk. S. M. M.— J. B.— E. T. D.— W. M. W.— W. W. R.— 

 T. B.— J. L.— F. J. R.— S. C. C— L. L.— F. G. F.— C. C— 

 T. H. H.— J. E. L.— H. P. D.— A. E. D.— Mrs. B.— 

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

 R. L.— E. H.— T. T. O.— H. T.— H. T. M.-G. S. W.— 

 H. B. L.— S. H.— W. S. A.— W. L. S.— A. P. C— A. D. T.— 

 T. D. A.— J. H. K.— J. C. P.— H. W. L.-J. H. B.-K. A. D. 

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