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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



XV. R. P. Cheltenham).— There is a work on orchids 

 published by Lovell Reeve & Co., Covent Garden, London, 

 which you would find very useful ; it is the only monograph on 

 the order. We should advise you to write for their catalogue , 

 your friend might procure the work in India. 



EXCHANGES. 



Good fossils wanted fur igneous and metamorphic rocks (fine', 



>ur volumes of "Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society," "Geologist Magazine" 6 volumes, Penning's "Field 



last four volumes of 



Geology," &c — F. G. S., 3 Melbourne Road, Leicester. 



Black Podurae scales, mounted dry or in balsam, and straw 

 bristle mould in balsam, for any good mounted objects.— E. 

 Holmes, 149 Essex Road, X. 



Lepidoptera for birds' eggs.— \\ m. Simmons, 6 New Walk 

 Terrace, York. 



Limacina Antarctica, for atlanta, firola, hyalaea, dipnyl- 

 lidia, spirula or voluta (animal indispensable).— J. Turner, 

 Davenport, Stockport. . 



Wanted, microscopic cabinet, for slides, material, Sc, 

 exchange small collection of British coleoptera, gold ring, &c. ; 

 write for list to F. S. Lyddon, 32 High Street, Warminster, Wilts. 

 Have vols. i. and ii. of Cassell's "Science for All," and vol. i. 

 of "Great Industries of Britain " (unbound); wanted, magic 

 lantern or offer.— A. AUetsu, 11 Foley Street, Langham Place, 

 London, W. 



For well-mounted slide of hedgehog tick, send really good 

 slide to Geo. Turvill, East Worldham, Alton. 



British mosses, marine algae, zoophytes, &c, offered to 

 collectors in foreign countries in exchange. Wanted corre- 

 spondents in all parts of the world, particularly South America, 

 China, East Indies, West Indies, and Africa.— B. B. Scott, 

 24 Sel'don Street, Kensington, Liverpool. _ . 



West Indian marine soundings, micro specimens of foreign 

 mosses, algae and zoophytes, for micro slides or herbarium 

 specimens of algae, mosses, or zoophytes (British or foreign).— 

 B B Scott 24 Seldon Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 



Wanted, chalk, wealden, oolitic, and Devonian fossils in 

 exchange for permian and carboniferous limestone. Address, 

 Henry Horner, jun., Sunderland. 



"Natural History Review," bound, 1857 and 1859 (bis), 

 and many odd numbers; " Cornhill," unbound, for i860, 1863, 

 1S64 1875- "Good Words," unbound, for 1867, 1868, 1869; 

 " Punch " odd numbers for 1876, 1877, and many odd numbers, 

 for many years of " Illustrated London News," in exchange for 

 "Natural History Magazine" or books. Wanted, "Natural 

 History Review," i860, April and October.— Alpha, 18 Upper 

 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. . 



Duplicates— Mytilus barbatus, Calyptr<ea sinensis, Lar- 

 diuvi Norvegicum, Fecten varius, Tapes virginea, and a few 

 specimens each of Rissoaparva, striata, Pnnctura, A ellia rubra, 

 Cyamium ntinutum, Hydrobia subumbilicata; also about forty 

 species of British lepidoptera ; wanted, British marine shells 

 and birds' eggs.— Thomas H. Hed worth, Dunston, Gateshead. 

 Sparrowhawk, warblers, wood-wren, gold-crest, fire-crest, 

 tits nuthatch, night-jar, grouse, oyster-catcher, eider duck, 

 puffin, razor-bill, gannet, arctic fern, gulls, and many others, 

 for British birds' eggs, side-blown.— W. F. Sutton, High Clare- 

 mont Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. . „ T 



Wood's " Illustrated Natural History Zoologist January 

 and February, 1875, Gregson's " Notes on Variety-manufac- 

 turing of Lepidoptera," Wood's " British Beetles, Angling, 

 by Blakey any or all of which I would exchange for. together 

 with Beeton's " Home Pets," the following : Newman's ''Ento- 

 mologist" for 1868-69, Harting's "Handbook of British Birds, 

 Duncan's " British Moths," or " Half-hours in the Green 

 Lanes," by J. E. Taylor.— W. Thomas, St. Andrew s Hospital, 

 Northampton. ., T . 



Unmounted material wanted in exchange for slides. Lists 

 to be sent.— E. Clover, Springfield, Sudbury, Suffolk. _ 



Wanted, fresh spores of A. lanceolatum, Leterach ojflci- 

 nantm Woodsia alpina, Woodsia ilvensis, Lastrea amulum, 

 Gymnogramma Uptophylla, Cystopteris alpina, C.vwntana 

 Polvfiodium alpestre, /'. flexile, for spores of other British and 

 exotic species.-J. W. W. Brook, 256 Kensington Street, 

 Bradford, Yorks. 



Wanted, all kinds of parasites for mounting fur cash pay- 

 ment.— T. S. Morten, 40 Haverstock Hill, London, N.W. 



Splendid diatoms in situ, mounted opaque for binocular, 111 

 exchange for parasites or other objects of interest.— J. Horn, 

 Yew Villa, Bacup, Lancashire. 



Wanted, good micro slides, in exchange fur fossils or 

 minerals.— T. H. Needham, 5 Mecklenburgh Street, W.C. 



A <;ood slide of seed of Kpilobium august ijclium (stained), 

 to be had for diatoms or diatomaceous deposit, boiled. Address, 

 H. S , Fairoak, Palatine Road, Didsbury, near Manchester. 



Wan 'ED, fossils, in exchange for entomological apparatus, 

 books, &c— C Swatman, n London Road, Sevenoaks. 



British birds' eggs wanted, in exchange for either minerals 

 or foreign shells.— F. M., 13 D^y Grove, Wavertree Road, 

 Liverpool. . . . , ,. 



Wei l-mounted diatom deposit exchanged for picked diatoms 

 or pure gatherings.— P. Z., Lilly Villa, Victoria Park, Man- 

 chester. 



Send diatomaceous material for guano_ containing forms of 

 Aulacodiscus Comberii, Pyxidicula cruciata, Actinospfurria 

 halyeny.x, &c. Letter previous, stating amount.— J. Miilins, 

 6 Brighton Place, Stretford, Manchester. 



For a well-mounted slide I will send scales of bib, smooth 

 dab, John Dory, power cod, horse mackerel, burbolt, &c, 

 unprepared, and about 100 scales of each.— E. Matthews, 

 40 Ponsonby Place, Vauxhall Bridge, London, S.W. 



A slide of satin spar from Matlock, a pretty polarizing object, 

 and other good slides, in exchange for good material. — J. Black- 

 shaw, 57 Cross Street, Louth. Blackenhall. Wolverhampton. 



" Midland Naturalist" for 1879 (unbound), in exchange 

 for Proctor's " Half Hours with the Stars " or a few fossils.— 

 T. A. Pearson, Milniow, Rochdale. 



Wanted, slides of foraminifera, &c, also cretaceous lime- 

 stone, and other fossils. Books on general literature, &c, in 

 exchange. Lists and desiderata to B., 9 Royal Terrace West, 

 Kingstown, Ireland. 



PLATlNO-cyanide of magnesium, mounted in balsam for 

 exchange ; parasite or diatom preferred. — W. H. Symons, 

 2 Queen's Terrace, St. John's Wood. 



For beautiful stellate hairs on leaf of Crysteria cocci/tea, and 

 cuticle of yucca, &c, send foraminiferous material or micro 

 slide.— M. Meadhurst, 1 Gladstone Road, Liverpool. 



Rare birds' eggs to exchange for others not in collection. — 

 Dr. J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, Sunderland. 



Desiderata— H. obvoluta, H. lamellata, IT. fusca, Z. 

 nitidus, Z. excavatus, Azeca tridens, A. acicula, 1 isidium 

 obtusale, T. haliotoidea, Dresseina polymorpha, L. auricu- 

 larins, L. involuta. For the above in quantities of each, are 

 offered— Succinea oblonga, L. Burnetti, V. antivertigo, V. 

 pusilla, V. alpestris.—XV . Sutton, Upper Claremont, New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne. . 



I have the first vol. of " Grevillea " in numbers that I wish to 

 exchange for a copy of " Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould," by 

 Cook. I have also a lage number of selected specimens of fossil 

 plants, showing internal structure, illustrating the memoirs of 

 Brongniart, Binney, Williamson, Carruthers, and others, which I 

 am wishful to exchange for small cabinets of about three or 

 four trays to hold about two or three dozen microscopic slides, 

 or I would take cash.— John Butterworth, Goat's Shaw, near 

 Oldham. . 



I am willing to exchange " Experimental Chemistry, ' Lochar 

 and Heaton ; "Inorganic Chemistry," Wilson ; "Manual of 

 Mineralogy," Dana; for zoological books or microscopical 

 objects. Arthur Marshall, 3s Connaught Square, Hyde 

 Park, W. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Propagation of Food Fishes." United States Com- 

 missioners' Reports, 1877. 



"The Crayfish." By Professor Huxley. London: C. 

 Kegan Paul. 



"Fourteen Months in Canton." By Mrs. Grey. London: 

 Macmillan. 



"Youth: its Care and Culture." By Dr. J. M. Granville. 

 London : David Bogue. 



" The Great Frozen Sea." By Captain Markham, 4th edition. 

 London : C. Kegan Paul. 



" Field Geology." By W. Penning, 2nd edition enlarged. 

 London: Bailliere, Tindal, & Co. 



" Bulletins of the United States Geological and Geographical 

 Surveys," vol. v. Nos. 2 & 3. 



"A Monograph of the Silurian Fossils of the Girvan District, 

 Fasciculus II." By Professor Nicholson and R. Etheridge, 

 jun. London : W. Blackwood & Son. 



" Journal de Micrographie." 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



"Botanische Zeitung." 



"American Naturalist." 



" Canadian Entomologist." 



" Scottish Naturalist." 



" Midland Naturalist."^ 



" Popular Science Review." 



"Land and Water. 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from :— 

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 E. S. B.-G. H. B.-J. S.-A. G. W.-J. C.-A. K.-Dr. M. 

 _ C ip._G. T. H.— J. A.— J. M.-T. S. M.— O. J. B.-Dr. C. 

 C. AW- B. R.-V. C.-C. I. U.-H. W. K.-C. W. S— 

 H w S— J.W.W.B.— H. P. M.-S.A B.— J. O.— E. A.T.— 

 E'W. B.— J. T. C .— E. C— E. A. B.— F. H. P.— W. J. H.- 

 A L-W. B.-E. S.-W. R. P.-E. H.-J. T.-W. H. N. 

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

 — F' F. R— G. M. D.— J. A.— T. B. L.— B. H.-H. H.— 

 W W. F.-T. H. H.-T. W.-W. T.-H. J.-C. J. A. C- 

 W. F. S.-T. C. R— F. M.-W. L. S.-C. S.-J. T. T. R.— 

 W. D. S.-H. S.-M. M.-J. L.-F. P.-W. H. S.-R. G. S. 

 — I B.— P. K.-T. A. P.— J. E. W— E. M.— R. W. W.— 

 T. W. O.-P. Z. jun.-G. E. W.-M. W. N.-J. R. N.-J A. 

 _R. A.-S. B. A.-J. A. W.-W. H. S.-J. F.-M. J. S.— 

 H. G— T. H.-M. M.— W. G.-H. B.— &c. 



