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IIARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



made, offered in exchange for good telescope, or magic lantern, 

 or microscope. — E. Edwards, 8 St. John's Cottages, Penge. 



Wanted, pure gathering of Diatomacea:, exchange books. — 

 E. Edwards, 8 St. John's Cottage, Penge. 



Offered, first twenty parts of "European Butterflies and 

 Moths," by W. Kirby, unbound, quite new for half price, cash. 

 — H. C. Wilkie, 4 Pemberton Terrace, Holloway. 



Peregrine falcon, kite, honey buzzard, tawny owl, Teng- 

 malm's owl, snow bunting, raven, crane, woodcock, &c. Desi- 

 derata — Rare sea birds' eggs, also sandpipers' and plovers' eggs. 

 Send for full list. — D. Cooper, 17 John Street, Clayton-le-Moors, 

 near Accrington. 



Wanted, a good polari^cope in exchange for gold dice, 

 suitable for watch-guard, and cash. Address, " Microscopic." 

 care of J. Uttley, Esq., 21 Adelaide Road, Haverstock Hill, 

 Londcn, N.W. 



For exchange, &c, Browning's 22s. spectroscope, " How to 

 work with the Spectroscope," " How to Choose a Microscope," 

 Cassell's "Countries of the World," parts 1 to 33, Cassell's 

 " Science for All," parts 1 to 25, a number of " Popular Science 

 Review," Tennyson's Cabinet Edition. 10 vols., Henry and 

 Scott's " Commentary," 6 vols., half calf. Address, G. Free- 

 man, 6 Macduff Terrace, Danby Street, Peckham, S.E. 



In exchange for scientific works or apparatus, Elisee Reclus' 

 " La France " and " L'Europe Meridionale," 2 vols., half calf, 

 cost nearly £4. Nearly 2000 pages of matter, 15 coloured maps, 

 142 engravings, 408 maps in text ; equal to new. — F. Timbrell, 

 Stafford Villa, Selwyn Road, Plaistow, E. 



British shells. A collector will be glad to exchange dupli- 

 cates. Wanted, Ianthina, Maugelia, Odostomia, &c. — J. W. 

 Cundall, Carrville, Alexandra Park, Redland, Bristol. 



Ova of Hermit Crab (Pagurns Bcrnhardits), mounted in fluid 

 for paraboloid, in exchange for other ova similarly mounted, or 

 zocea forms of Crustacea. — Edward Lovett, Holly Mount, 

 Croydon. 



Wanted, a pocket Babington's " Flora" last edition, for an 

 ordinary one 7th ed., 1874, as good as new ; would pay the 

 difference in price, or what offers for it ? — Address, A. E. Lomax, 

 41 Church Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead. 



Helix obvohita and Pupa r -ingots offered for Helix revelata, 

 or the two Testacellas — and duplicates of the following good 

 British land and freshwater shells are offered in exchange for 

 other desiderata, Lint. Bnrnetti, Succinea oblonga, Vertigo 

 fiusilla, V. sitbstriata, V. alpestris, V. minutissitna, V. moulin- 

 siana, V. angnstier. Desiderata, good foreign land shells, and 

 named British birds' eggs. — W. Sutton, Upper Claremont, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



A great variety of material, &c, for the microscope and 

 otherwise, useful to the marine zoologist, for Johnston's "History 

 of the British Zoophytes," popular edition — E. Matthews, 

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



Wanted, cabinet for iooo micro-slides, also some limestone 

 rock-section cuttings, in exchange for good fossils, minerals, and 

 rock specimens; also wanted, classified Foraminifera, recent or 

 fossil, for fossil ditto. — E. Wilson, 18 Low Pavement, Notting- 

 ham. 



Rich scrapings from Hilbre Islands, Cheshire, full of Forami- 

 nifera, also small specimens of Australian zoopbytes for micro- 

 scope, in exchange for good slides of diatoms, &c. &c. — B. B. 

 Scott, 24 Seldon Street, Kensington, Liverpool. 



WELL-mounted slides of Podura scales (test) Lepisma, 

 Bramble brand, and others in exchange for slides of interest. — 

 T. Forty, Well Street, Buckingham. 



Will exchange P. Crnttrgi, P. Brassictr, P. Sabellicie, G. 

 Rhamni, Hipparchia Pamphillts, H. "Janira, H. sEgeria, 

 H. Tithonvs, V. Urticer, V. Atalanta, for small living reptiles 

 (except the newt, toad, and frog). — H. C. Brooke, 45 Union 

 Grove, Wandsworth Road, S. 



As I intend during the coming summer to make micro-fungi 

 my especial study, I should be glad to correspond with some 

 mycologist with the view of exchanging specimens (mounted or 

 unmounted), and for mutual improvement. — George T. Harris, 

 Long Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire. 



L. C, Nos. 66, 104, 109, 133, 146, 176, 527, 556, 611, 682, 704, 

 767, "769, 820, 831, 838, 975, 988, 998, 999, iool, 1 130, 1483, 1485, 

 1519, and others, in exchange for other rare species. Send lists 

 to T. Tempere, 249 Moss Lane, Manchester. 

 _ Living specimens of Cypris vidua, plant hairs, scales, bril- 

 liant Indian beetle (Mimela Hcrsjieldii), and other unmounted 

 material, in exchange for microscopic slides. Foreign Lepi- 

 doptera also wanted.— M. Medhurst, 1 Gladstone Road, Liver- 

 pool. 



For slide of ceramium with diatoms (Grammatophora ma- 

 rina) in situ. Send good slide to R. Smith, 30 Great Russell 

 Street, Bedford Square, W. 



Wanted, any British Orobanches (Broomrapes) except minor, 

 especially in a fresh state. Will give rare living, or dried 

 British plants for above. — A. B., 107 High Street, Croydon, 

 Surrey. 



ti_ Wanted, recent volumes of the " British (or any other good) 



Journal of Photography " in exchange for foreign insects or 

 other micro material.— H. M., Anglesea Lodge, Godalming, 

 Surrey. 



For six slides of fossil sponge spicules all new to science, send 

 six slides of recent or fossil spicules to J. Smith, 94 Dundas 

 Street, Glasgow. 



Slides of PhtJiirius pubis, &c, in exchange for selected dia- 

 toms, forams or anatomical slides. Send lists to A. Stokes, 

 Vestry Hall, Paddington, W. 



Foraminifera from the west coast of Ireland (several 

 species) clean and beautifully mounted in balsam, for interesting 

 mounted objects. — John Butterworth, Goat's Shaw, Oldham. 



Wanted, Pilnlaria globulifera, Lycppodium annotinum, 

 Lycopodium inttndatiim, and C. Selaginella selaginoides, all 

 with fruit ; also fronds (fertile) of Polypodium alpestre, Cysfo- 

 pteris angnstala and montana. Foreign fern roots or fronds in 

 exchange. — Miss Ridley, Hollington, Newbury. 



Parasites of the horse, mounted, for any other interesting 

 well-mounted slide or slides. — Alfred Tozer, Jackson's Row, 

 Manchester. 



Wanted, British birds' eggs, will exchange fossils, minerals, 

 or deposit of large foraminifera. — A. D. H., 53 Sheriff Street, 

 Rochdale. 



A piece of the fresh skin of a hedgehog, with many spines on 

 it, and two fleas from same. Send any micro material and 

 stamped addressed envelope to R. E. H., I30 Sowerby Street, 

 Moss Side, Manchester. 



Duplicates — Flavicornis, Oxycanthus, Pilosaria, Chi, 

 Lemophearia, Rupicaprarea, &c. Desiderata — Dentina, Oo, 

 Nigrocincta, Sylvinus, T. Crata>gi, Falcula, &c. Or offers in 

 Coleoptera (British). — List on application. — H. B. Pirn, Kings- 

 wood Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. 



Wanted, Hincks' " Hydroid Zoophytes," Busk's "Catalogue 

 of Polyzoa," parts 1 and 2, Science-Gossip, vols. r873, 74, 75, 

 76, 77, Dana's " Mineralogy." Exchange in standard geological 

 and chemical books and cash. — James C. Christie, Hamilton, 

 N.B. 



For exchange, the following lepidoptera : Machaon, Lathonia, 

 (European), Stellatarum, Convolvuli, *Filipenduke, *Populi, 

 "Ligustri, *Dictaea, Prunaria, *Chrysorrhoea, Chi, V. aureuni 

 (pulchrina) Tiliaria, *Derivata (marked * bred) for " The World 

 of Wonders," (new and revised edition), Cassell & Co. — Joseph 

 Anderson, jun., Chichester, Sussex. 



Clean gatherings of Diatoms, Foraminifera, from estuarine 

 clays, and mounted slides, for exchange. — William Gray, Mount- 

 charles, Belfast. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Fossil Men and their Modern Representatives." By J. W. 

 Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 



"Science Primers: Introductory." By Professor Huxley. 

 London : Macmillan. 



"Report of the Commissioners of Agriculture for 1S77," 

 Washington, U.S.A. 



"Illustrations of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Plants of the 

 Western Territories." Washington, U.S.A., 1878. 



" Popular Science Review." April. 



" Midland Naturalist." April. 



" Land and Water." April. 



"Journal of Applied Science." April. 



" Catalogue of the Publications of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Territories." 3rd edition. 



"The Antiquary." April. 



" Le Monde de la Science," &c. March. 



" British Dogs," parts 8 and 9. London: " Bazaar " Office. 



" Canadian Entomologist," No. 2. 



"Scottish Naturalist." April. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." April. 



"Annual Report of North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field 

 Club," 1879. . T „ T j 



"Notes of Observations on Injurious Insects. London: 

 W. S. Sonnenschein & Allen. 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received rr to 9TH ult. from :— 

 T. F —P. K— R. A.— R. A. W.— E. E.-L. A— M. E. P.— 

 M . P.— A. J.-W. G. C.-W. G.-R. O. K.-J. P.T.-J. T A. 

 — C. H. G.— A. M.— H. P. R.— J. A— W. H. N.— A. P.— 

 G. T. H.-W. H. M.— J. C. T— H. C. B— T. B. B.— A. P.— 

 R. S.— T. F.— M. M.-B. B. S— R. A.— J. T.-E. W.— 

 J. W. C— W. G-E. M.-F. T.— J. M. V.— A. B.— W. D S. 

 — E. L. B.-G. F.— J. G. T.-C. L. W.-G. C.-J. F. U.— 

 H. G. B.-D. C.-E. L.-J. C. M.-T. S.-G. M.-T. L.- 

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

 W. K.-G. G.-R.— H. W. D.-J. S.-H. B. P.-M. H. R.- 

 A. D. H.— J. C. C.-S. C. G.-A. T.— P. Q. R.-&C 



