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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



black ammonites from the Lias, Ostrea acuminata, from fuller's- 

 earth, Pentacrinus Briareus, and other British fossils. Wanted 

 fossils from the chalk, or other offers. — F. Summer, Merton 

 College, Oxford. 



Preparations of the large water beetle [Dyticus marginalis), 

 and house cricket [Acheta doviesticd), prepared ready for mount- 

 ing, in exchange for good unmounted material brittle stars, 

 Ophiocoma, and fragments of Hyalonema mirabilis required 

 most. Will also exchange good mounted objects. English 

 i in. objective. — W. White, 7 Warden Place, York Street, Not- 

 tingham. 



Wanted 1437, 1453, 1457, 1529, 1545. Offered Carex axillaris 

 and other plants.— F. H.Arnold, Emsworth. 



Four hundred odd duplicates of British Wild Plants as per 

 7th ed. London Catalogue. Some very rare lists exchanged. — 

 B. M. O., 76 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, London. 



A chemical balance and quantity of apparatus and chemicals 

 for sale cheap. — Thomas Steel, Lome Place, Gourock. By 

 Greenock. 



Wanted, Trichina spiralis, Uredo caries, U. fcctida, U. 

 segetum, Puccinia graminis, and Cysticercus cellulosus, or 

 other objects of interest, for sugar mites (Acarus saccharus'), 

 perfect micro-sugar crystals (mounted), Kiselguhr infusorial 

 earth, Caledonian canal infusorial earth, Gomphoncma gemi- 

 natum, Epithemia alpestris (mixed), Sebacic acid, Benzoic 

 acid, Post-pliocene foraminiferous material, &c.— Thomas Steel, 

 Lome Place, Gourock, by Greenock. 



Babington's "Manual of British Botany," date 1851, third 

 edition. Ure's '* New System of Geology," containing 7 plates 

 and 51 woodcuts, date 1829, and vol. 2 of Roget's "Animal 

 and Vegetable Physiology, third edition, date 1840. Wanted 

 offers, books on butterflies and moths, also Parts 2 to 17 of 

 "Cassell's Moths."— J. T. Brown, Stanstead, St. Margaret's, 

 Herts. 



Herbarium or microscopical specimens of British and foreign 

 mosses, Alga; (marine), zoophytes, also West Indian marine 

 soundings. Wanted British and foreign mosses, Algae, zoophytes 

 and ferns for herbarium, also micro slides and good diatomaceous 

 earths.— B. B. Scott, 24 Seldon Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 



British marine and land shells, for exchange — Pandora 

 rostrata, Lucinopsis undata, Psammobiafcrroensis, Scrobicu- 

 laria piperata, Anemia ephippium, Venus fasciata, Rissoa 

 ulvre, Limneus stagnalis, Bulimus acutus, &>c. &c. Wanted 

 British marine and land shells, lists exchanged.— Richard Ley, 

 St. Leonard's Lawn, Exeter. 



Duplicates of the following good British land and freshwater 

 shells, offered in exchange for other desiderata. Lim. Burnetii, 

 ditto var. lacustris, Sue. oblonga, Vertigo pusilla, V.substriata, 

 V. alpestris, V. minutissima, V. angustior. Desiderata— good 

 foreign land shells, named British birds' eggs, or several species 

 of British shells (in quantity) principally H. obvoluta, Acme 

 lineata, Q. testacellas, P. ringens, L. involuta and others. — 

 W. Sutton. Upper Claremont, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Lyell's "Student's Manual of Geology," Page's "Advanced 

 Text-Book of Geology," and Woodward's "Manual of the 

 Mollusca," in exchange for books on chemistry. Dr. Wormley's 

 " Micro Chemistry of Poisons " wanted. — W. F. Lowe, Cambrian 

 View, Chester. 



Wanted, Silurian trilobitcs, will exchange good Aviculo- 

 pecten, Goniatites, Orthoceras, Inoceramus from marine coal 

 shale— A. D. H., 53 Sheriff Street, Rochdale. 



Wanted, pupa; of Quercifolia, Ilicifolia, Lanestris, Carpini, 

 B. trifolii, B. rubi, S. ocellatus, S. tilia-, in exchange for the 

 first 12 Nos. of Cassell's " European Moths and Butterflies," 

 and first 4 Nos. of Martin's " Microscopic Objects."— H. Ullyetr, 

 Folkestone. 



Wanted, microscopic material and appliances for store boxes, 

 setting boards and insects.— F. S. Lyddon, 32 High Street, 

 Warminster. 



Wanted, good fossils in exchange for 13 numbers of Gold- 

 smith's "History of the Earth and Animated Nature." — H. C. 

 Quilter, 25 Waring Street, Leicester. 



Wanted, roots Gymnogramma leptophylla, or good fronds 

 of it, also of Woodsia alpiu t. Exchange foreign fern roots. — 

 Miss Ridley, Hollington, Newbury. 



Lepidoptera in exchange forside blown British birds' eggs. — 

 F. J. Rasell, 30 Argyle Street, St. James' End, Northampton. 



For (unmounted) leaf petals and calyx of Deutzia scabra, 

 with exquisite hairs, send object of interest.— W. H. Skan, 

 15 Brownlow Street, W.C. 



For fine slides of Carboniferous Polyzoa, send slides of dia- 

 toms, desmids, or sponge spicules (recent or fossil), to J. Smith, 

 94 Dundas Street, Glasgow. 



For a small quantity of bramble brand, (micro fungi), send 

 unmounted object, also a few slides of two species of podura 

 scales mounted, including the test one, Curvicollis, in exchange 

 for other slides of interest.— T. Forty, Well Street, Bucking- 

 ham. 



Will C. E. S. (Channel Islands), or any other inhabitant of 

 them, kindly put me in the way of getting some shells for 

 making flowers ? I want specially pholas, white limpets, and a 

 round pink bivalve, apparently a tellen. I will give anything 

 I can in exchange, or a reasonable price in money. — Julia 

 Colson, Swanage, Dorset. 



Would like to exchange Zonitcs fulvus, Z. glaber, Z. ex- 



cavatus, and var. vitrina, Helix lamellata, Helix aculeata, 

 Vertigo substriata for British marine shells, Pinna rudis, or 

 any of Terebratulas or other rare shells. — J. Whitwham, Cross 

 Lane Marsh, Huddersfield. 



Mounted and unmounted micro material, including clean 

 gatherings of recent diatoms, slides of synapta, zoolite, mosses, 

 &c, for good slides. — William Gray, Mount Charles, Belfast. 



Will exchange Cassell's "Popular Natural History," four 

 volumes, unbound, and White's " Natural History of Selbome," 

 for British Lepidoptera or stuffed birds. — A. Foster, Rodger 

 Street, Anstruther, N.B. 



Mosses. — Good specimens, with fruit, of Leucobryum glau- 

 cum, Orthotrichum Sprucei, Leptodon Smithii, Myrinia pul- 

 vinata, &c, offered for L. C. of Mosses, Nos. 38, 97, 100, 102, 

 107, 108, no, 124,134, 229, 236, 254, 255, 256, 270, 302, 303, 324, 

 330, 331, &c. — H. H. W., Holwell Rectory, Sherborne, Dorset. 



What exchange in entomological apparatus for Statham's 

 " Boys' Own Chemical Laboratory " (slightly imperfect) and 

 Bidlake's " Text-book of Elementary Chemistry ? — J. M. V., 

 16 Merrion Square, South Dublin. 



Mounted slide of Chinese pith plant and other slides for 

 exchange. — Lists to J. B., 36 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow. 



Well-cut sections of South American and other woods in 

 exchange for good microscopical objects, list sent.— H. L., 

 6 Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, W. 



"Monthly Microscopical Society's Journal," complete in 

 18 vols, cloth, cost £g gs., offered for Hassall's " Freshwater 

 Algae," Smith's " Diatomaceae," or Ralf's " Desmidiae. — J. W. P. 

 Edwards, 90 Watergate Flags, Chester. 



Wanted, Philips's "Geology of Yorkshire" (particularly 

 mountain limestone part). — Harry Muller, Rawdon, Leeds. 



Wanted, small air-pump with receiver in exchange for hand- 

 some elm cabinet, six drawers, to hold 144 objects, and good 

 camera Iucida. — Rev. J. S. Williams, Mysore Cottage, 

 Welshpool. 



Wanted, live ova or young of sand lizard, common snake, 

 smooth snake, edible frog and natterjack toad. Other reptiles 

 or natural history specimens in exchange. — J. M. Campbell, 

 Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. 



Complete set, 15 vols. (6 bound) of Science-Gossip, wanted 

 Jeffrey's " British Conchology " or offers. — Thos. H. Hed worth, 

 Dunston, Gateshead. 



Seaweeds in fructification, beautifully prepared on yi glasses 

 for magic lantern slides, in variety, or in packets for micro- 

 mounting, ready to put into balsam, or as Herbarium speci- 

 mens, &c. Also a very large assortment of interesting marine 

 micro-material, cash or exchange, in first class micro or lantern 

 slides. Portrait lens by Ross or other good maker, gun, gold 

 fish, or spawn of same, &c. — T. McGann, Burren, Ireland. 

 (Parcels of material sent on approval.) 



Duplicates, Flavicornis, dispar, pilosaria, nupta. De- 

 siderata. Aurantiaria, certata, imbutata, falcula, ziczac, 

 glandifera, 00, rufina, dentina, glyphica, truea, and offers in 

 Coleoptera. — T. Wood, 5 Selwyn Terrace, Jasper Road, Upper 

 Norwood. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Fossil Men and their Modern Representatives." By Dr. 

 Dawson. London : Hodder & Stoughton. 



" Proceedings of the Winchester and Hampshire Scientific 

 Society," 1879. 



" Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club," 1877-7S, 

 1878-79. 



" North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club," 1879. 



" The Study of Mosses." By R. Anslow. 



" The Antiquary." March. 



" Observations on Noxious Insects." Report 1879. 



"Midland Naturalist." March. 



" Land and Water." March. 



" Les Mondes." March. 



"Ben Brierley's Journal." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from 

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

 Mrs.B.-T. L.— S. S.— C. F. G.-M.S.B.-M.S.-J.P.-J.A. 

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 B. H.-M. J.-J. S.-H. L.-W. D. T.-W. H. J.-R. L. 

 W. J.-C. C.-L. C. R.-W. B. S.-J. G. B.-H. W.-G. C 

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

 W. T. K.-F. S.— J. S.— J. McK.— A. D. H.— F. S.— F. K. 

 B. B. L. T.-W. C.-J. S.-A. C.-W. R. B.-E. A. B.-T. 

 -J. C.-M. R.-F. J. R.-J. W. C.-W. G.— J. C. I.— J. W. 

 J. M. V.-H. H. W.-C. L.-H. W. R.— A. F.-J. B.— H. 

 — W. H. S.-J. W. P. E.-H. E. Q.— H. P.— J. S.— R. H. M. 

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