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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Good slides of raphides and starch of narcissus or hyacinth, 

 for any other good slide. Sent lists to H. S., Fairoak, Palatine 

 Road, Didsburg, near Manchester. 



A number of well-mounted slides, including various Gorgonia 

 spicules, zoophytes, &c, to be had for other mounted objects of 

 interest, or for unmounted diatom deposit. — P. Z., Lilly Villa, 

 Victoria Park, Manchester. 



Wanted, the last edition of the " Micrographic Dictionary," 

 offered in exchange 2 volumes of Fresenius' " Analysis Quanti- 

 tative and Qualitative," also other chemical works or micro- 

 scopic well-mounted slides. — R. L. H., Hillside, Hastings. 



Wanted, British and foreign mosses, especially sphagnum in 

 fruit, well-dried specimens of ferns and seaweeds, micro slides 

 of mosses ; exchange books on Natural History, all in good con- 

 dition, or cash. — J. R. Mendoch, 40 Leighton Lane, Leeds. 



Good polarising slides of plates of Primnoa australis, for 

 other well-mounted slides. Also others for exchange ; micro- 

 meter wanted, cash or exchange. — E. Clover, Springfield, 

 Sudbury, Suffolk. 



I will collect and forward (carriage paid) the diatoms 

 desmids, &c, of this district to any gentleman who in return 

 will send me a well-mounted slide of each variety. I will send him 

 also a recently gathered specimen, in flower, of Chrysosplenium 

 aiternifolinm for any plant found in Scotland. — F. C. King, 

 Old Meldrim, Aberdeen. 



Wanted, Cooke's " Handbook of British Fungi," for either 

 of the three following : herbarium of 200 species of British 

 mosses and hepaticae, or herbarium of 300 species of British 

 phanerogams, or 30 microscopic slides of British freshwater 

 Algae. Good microscopic material wanted in exchange for 

 slides. — X., 14 Sherborne Road, Bradford. 



Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, in numbers from 1873 to 1879 

 inclusive, for Geological books. — J. W. Handley, Chipping 

 Norton, Oxford. 



Six-drawer cabinet, containing nearly 150 butterflies, 6 

 store-boxes containing about 500 moths, and complete set of 

 entomological apparatus. Desiderata some good scientific 

 books. — Address H. G, 55 Lausanne Road, Peckham, London. 



Six volumes of "Nature" in good condition, for "Wild 

 Flowers, Grasses, and Ferns," illustrated ; by Miss Anne Pratt. 

 — Elizabeth Edwards, Mayfield House, Newcastle, Staffordshire. 



Wanted, good silurian fossils, trilobites, encrinites, fish, 

 corals, starfish, crabs, lobsters ; will give in exchange, Haldon 

 greensand fossils, polished slabs of madrepore coral sections, 

 worth 245. per dozen, or other kind of fossils. — A. J. R. Delater, 

 4 Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Wanted, growing roots of Asplenium Jontamtm and As- 

 plenium marinum ; in exchange for one of each I will send half- 

 a-dozen three year old Asplenium bulbi/erum. — A. F. Kitching, 

 8 Prospect Street, Hull. 



I desire any papers, books, or cuttings from lectures, &c, 

 on recent and fossil Polyzoa (Bryozoa). Any odd numbers of 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, of Geological Jour- 

 nal, of Geological Magazine. State what is wanted in micro- 

 material in exchange. — G. R. Vine, Attercliffe, Sheffield. 



Wanted, fossil Polyzoa (Bryozoa or Zoophytes) from any 

 formation, and from any locality in England or America. State 

 what micro-material, slides, &c, are required in exchange. — 

 G. R. Vine, Attercliffe. Sheffield. 



Well-mounted slides of diatoms in situ on marine Algae, in 

 exchange for good slides of freshwater Algae or selected diatoms, 

 also test scales of Podura, Lepisma, Spicula, &c. — T. Forty, 

 Buckingham. 



For exchange, Pluttner on the " Blowpipe," Richter & 

 Cookesley's edition, 1875, new ; and Fresenius' " Chemical 

 Analysis," vol. i., last edition, new ; either of them for Rye's 

 "Beetles," or Cox's " Coleoptera."— J. H. Walker, Heath, 

 Stourbridge. 



Eggs of sedge warbler, willow warbler, pied wagtail, tree 

 sparrow, tree pipit, carrion crow, jackdaw, magpie, jay, rook, 

 sand martin, turtle-dove, pheasant, partridge, coot, common 

 fern, guillemot, and a few American eggs, for other good eggs. 

 — A. Wheldon, South Parade, Northallerton. 



Wanted, in flower and fruit the following British pond-weeds : 

 Nos. 1222, 1223, 1226, 1240, or any forms of the other species. 

 Other Potamogetons or rare British plants (living or dried) in 

 exchange. — A. B., 107 High Street, Croydon, Surrey. 



Wanted, English coins or tokens, and Roman or Greek, or 

 antiquities, rubbings of monumental brasses, old china, &c, in 

 exchange for fossils from chalk or Thanet sand, or other natural 

 objects. — Frederick Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, either Babington's " British Flora," or Hooker's 

 " Student's Flora ;" will give forty-five numbers of the 

 "Countries of the World," up to the present month, in good 

 condition, most of them have never been cut. — Edwin T. Turner, 

 Mr. Day's, Printer, Witham, Essex. 



Micro object cabinet in pine, stained to imitate mahogany, 

 will contain 448 objects in thirty-two drawers, will exchange for 

 either Carpenter's, Griffiths', or Hogg's work on the Microscope, 

 or small induction coil.— H. W. Wager, Middle Street, Stroud, 

 Gloucester. 



For exchange a perfect and almost new set of best gramme 

 weights for double nosepiece, or other microscopic appliances. — 

 J. H. Walker, Heath, Stourbridge. 



Rich Boatings from Lough Foyle cstuarine clays, found to 



contain over 100 species of Foraminifera, in exchange for any 

 any other micro geological objects. — William Gray, Mount 

 Charles, Belfast. 



Eggs. — Exchange black grouse, peregrine falcon, fork -tailed 

 petrel, red winged starling, Sandwich tern, Caspian tern, osprey, 

 greenshank, &c. Desiderata numerous. 



Fine chalk fossils in exchange for fine fluor spars, rock 

 crystals, agate, &c. — A. Butt, Vine Cottage, Perry Vale, Forest 

 Hill, S.E. 



Plumatella, Paludicella, Oesistes, Melicerta, Stephanon, 

 Vaginicola, &c., in exchange for Lophopus crystallinus. — 

 A. Butt, Vine Cottage, Perry Vale, Forest Hill, S.E. 



Wanted, either ova or larvae of Saturua Pavonia minor 

 (emperor moth), Triclihira Cratcrgi (oak egger), Vanessa 

 atalanta (red admiral), Vanessa io, or any of hawk-moth 

 species. Will exchange setting boards, and a cabinet set 

 mounted on cardboard, of the names of all British butterflies, 

 family, &c. — W. E. Watkins, 32 Huntingdon Street, Barnsbury 

 Park. 



For slides of the following sponge spicules, viz. : — Raphio- 

 phora gordia, Isodictya cinerea, Tethea lynemesia, Ophales 

 seriata, Spongilla Jluviatilis, and gemmule spicules of same, 

 and six slides of spicules, selected diatoms or fragments of 

 Gargania, Hyalonema, and Euplectella, to J. Smith, 94 Dundas 

 Street, Glasgow. 



Binocular microscope, with a quantity of apparatus, in- 

 cluding i, y^th, and T jth objectives by Powell and Lealand. 

 Exchange good astronomical telescope, £30 to value. — S., 364 

 Kennington Road, S.E. 



Pair of tourmalines and 12 polarising objects in case, cost 

 £3 3J. Exchange good injected micro objects. — S., 364 Ken- 

 nington Road, S.E. 



Pupa ringens and Helix obvoluta offered for Testacella 

 haliotoidea and Clausilia Rolpkii; also duplicates of the 

 following offered in exchange: — Lint. Burnett!, Succinea ob- 

 longa. Vertigo pusilla, V. substriata, V. alpestris, V. niinu- 

 tissima, V. angustior, V. moulinsiana. Desiderata, British 

 birds' eggs, British marine shells, or foreign land shells. — W. 

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



Wanted, Allman's " Freshwater Polyzoa," standard botan- 

 ical works or books illustrated by Turner, or separate plates, 

 for the following : — Gosse's " Devonshire Coast," Herschel's 

 "Astronomy," Quekett's "Histology," Berkeley's "Crypto- 

 gamic Botany," Ruskin's "Oxford Lectures," and the follow- 

 ing books of the Ray Society : — Burmeister's " Trilobites," 

 "Correspondence of John Ray," Mayen's "Botanical Geo- 

 graphy," Oken's " Elements of Physiophilosophy," "Reports 

 on Zoology," " Reports on Botany." — B. G. Whiteman, Laurel 

 Cottage, 116 Poplar Walk Road, Loughborough Junction, S.E. 



Larva of doniinula, potatoria, auriflua, chrysorrktxa, and 

 Ncnstria. Pupae of 5 or 6 spotted burnet moth. Desiderata — 

 larvae or pupae of other species of lepidoptora. — Address,; S. 

 Smith, Castle Street, Walmer, Kent. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Seasonable Dimorphism of Butterflies." By Dr. A. 

 Wiesmann. London : Sampson Low & Co. 



" Epidemiology." By John Parkin, M.D. Part II., second 

 edition. London : D. Bogue. 



" Nature's Hygiene." By C. T. Kingzett, F.C.S. London : 

 Bailliere, Tindall, & Cox. 



" Degeneration : a Chapter in Darwinism." By Professor 

 E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. London: Macmillan & Co. 



" American Naturalist." May. 



"The American Monthly Microscopical Journal." March 

 and April. 

 , "The American Journal of Microscopy." April. 



" American Entomologist." 



" Canadian Entomologist," Nos. 2 & 3. 



"Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario," 

 for 1879. 



"Midland Naturalist." May. 



" Journal of Conchology." 



" Proceedings of Geologists' Association," Nos. '5 & 6. 



" Land and Water." May. 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from: — 

 J. p. W.— A. H. H.— A. B.— L. E. A— J. G.— M. E. T.— 

 S. E. P.— W. B. T.— W. J. 0.— W. R. T— E. E.— A. S.— 

 r. w. C— G. B.— M. M.— J. R. D.— F. B.— W. T. G.— 

 A. F. K.— G. D.— R. L. H.— T. C. M.— A. S.— J. F.— 

 G. T. H.-J. H.— E. C— A. C. R.— A. B.— J. M. O.— F. C. K. 

 — B. B. S.— F. H. A.— H. W.— J. F.— T. S.— T. B.— W. R. T. 

 —P. Z.— F. S. L.— E. J. C— F. W. B.-J. G.— H. S.— 

 W. S. T.— E. F. S.— J. R. M— M. R.— C. F.— Miss C. F.— 

 J. M. B.— G. R. V.— E. C— J. R. S.— T. C— A. F. K.— W. W. 

 — E. E.— J. W. H.— T. J. L.— R. H.— H. G— J. J.— J. W.— 

 H. W. K.-F. J. G— L. E. A.-F. E. A.— A. E. W.— J. A. W. 

 — E. E. T.— R. F. T.— S. S.— H. W.— J. S— J. H.— B. G. W. 

 — W. D. S.— F. S.— D. C— M. W. N.— A. B.— M. E. W.— 

 J. A. W.— W. S— J. H. W.— H. W. D.— T. F.— A. B.— 

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