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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



for either "Hogg on the Microscope" or Cassell's "Great 

 Industries of Britain," vol. i., or one dozen slides. — R. Smith, 

 30 Great Russell Street, Bedford Square, W. 



Will exchange the following for books or slides: — "Origin 

 of Lowest Organisms," Bastian ; "Scientific London," Becker; 

 Carpenter's "Zoology," 2 vols. ;_" Biology," Cooke; "Dar- 

 winism, and other Essays," Fiske ; "Manuel d'Anatomie 

 Comparee," Gegenbaur, translated by Carl Vogt, 1874 ; " Classi- 

 fication of Animals," Huxley; "Physiography," Huxley; 

 "Degeneration," Ray Lankester ; "Life, its Origin and Suc- 

 cession," Phillips ; " Half-hours in the Green Lanes," 5th edition, 

 Taylor; "Field Naturalist's Handbook," Wood. Wanted, 

 Beale's "Protoplasm," last edition; "Descent of Man," 

 Darwin ; " Elements of Embryology," Foster and Balfour ; 

 "Principles of Science," Jevons ; "Philosophie Zoologique," 

 Lamarck ; " Principles of Biology," Spencer. Cash or exchange. 

 — W. Ernest Milner, 47 Park Road, Haverstock Hill, N.W. 



Orchis militaris, Potamogeton zoster if ol ms, Mucunatits 

 pra'longus, etc., offered for Fitmaria vaillantii, Galium ochro- 

 leucttm, Corallorrhiza innata, Erica meditcrranea, Asperugo 

 procumbens, etc. — G. C. Druce, 118 High Street, Oxford. 



Six slides of carboniferous foraminifera offered for six slides 

 of recent or fossil foraminifera. — E. Wilson, 1 8 Low Pavement, 

 Nottingham. 



Duplicates of Helix obvoluta and Limntza Burnetii, 

 offered for specimens of Testacella haliotoidea or good-sized 

 specimens of L. peregra, var. ovata, also good British specimens 

 (with localities where found), of Succinea obloiiga, V. pusiila, 

 V. angiistior, V . substriaia, V. -minutissima, and V. alpcstris, 

 for numerous desiderata amongst British birds' eggs, and foreign 

 land shells, and a few particular varieties of the British land 

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



Eighty ss. 6d. numbers "Philosophical Magazine," 1853- 

 1858, and ten zs. 6d. numbers " Popular Science Review," 

 1871-1877, offered in exchange for micro-cabinet or slides, 

 minerals, or fossils. — E. Wilson, 18 Low Pavement, Notting- 

 ham. 



Side-elown eggs of lesser black-backed gull, black-headed 

 gull, dipper, sedge warbler, redshank, little grebe, moorhen, 

 common tern, and others in exchange, for other single-holed 

 specimens not in collection. — E. F. Bell, 11 James Terrace, 

 Tait Street, Carlisle. 



Wanted, coins, antiquities, Kentish books, &c, birds' eggs, 

 fossils or minerals, in exchange for fossils from chalk and Thanet 

 sand, seaweeds, or other natural objects. — F. Stanley, 6 Clifton 

 Gardens, Margate. 



A fine collection of about 200 flies and material for fly-fishing, 

 also " Cotton and Walton on Angling," in exchange for a fern- 

 case, or offers.— E. Cook, 2 St. Leonard's Villas, Granville 

 Road, Child's Hill, Hendon. 



Diatomaceous earth from Monteroy, Richmond, Lower 

 California, and Santa Barbara. Small packet of' each sent for 

 good material, ready for mounting. — T. Blackshaw, Cross 

 Street South, Wolverhampton. 



For specimensof Azolla pinnata, showing gonidia-like lichens, 

 send stamped addressed envelope to G. Pirn, Monkstown, 

 Co. Dublin. 



Wanted, Professor Ramsay's books and papers on geology 

 of Merioneth and North Wales district, and papers on botany of 

 ditto. Other books in exchange, or glad of loan of them. — 

 F. R. G. S. I., 9 Royal Terrace, West Kingston, Co. Dublin. 



Offered, Withering's " Botany," in 4 vols., Science- 

 Gossip for 1865 (bound), also for 1878 (bound), and 1879 (not 

 bound), in exchange for Hooker's " Flora of the British Isles," 

 Hayward's " Botanist's Pocket Book," or other works on botany 

 or agricultural chemistry. Will take cash. — H. P. Russell, 

 Nassau School, Barnes, S.W. 



Superior mahogany cabinet suitable for moths, butterflies, 

 &c, 13 drawers 8X5. Cost ,63 10s., exchange injected objects. — 

 S., 364 Kennington Road, S.E. 



Binocular microscope with quantity of apparatus, and \, 

 T V, and T \ T objectives, by Powell and Lealand. Exchange astro- 

 nomical telescope, ,£30 to value. — S., 364 Kennington Road, 

 S.E. 



Gonioeoris for others (not common), nudibranches, send 

 name of offers for approval, in first instance to J. Turner, 

 Davenport, Stockport. 



Sideblown eggs of grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, 

 garden warbler, pied flycatcher, golden plover, curlew, oyster 

 catcher, lesser tern, arctic tern, common sandpiper, &c. ; unac- 

 cepted offers not answered. — Tom Duckworth, 58 Scotch Street, 

 Carlisle. 



Wanted, good living specimens of L. oreopteris, P. phegop- 

 tens, P. dryopteris, P. calcareum, Allosorus crispits, Cystop- 

 terisfragilis, O. rcgalis, and hardy and half-hardy exotic ferns, 

 in exchange for Channel Island plants, or lepidoptera {P. daplo- 

 dicc, S. euphorbia, &c). — Fred- Piquet, York Street, Jersey. 



British eggs wanted in exchange for the following : white- 

 tailed eagle, kestrel, tawny owl, oyster-catcher, snipe, curlew, 

 buff-backed heron, Canada goose, wild duck, red-breasted 

 merganser, eider-duck, goosander, gannet, arctic loon, kitti- 

 wake, lesser black-backed gull, common gull and others. All 

 well identified ; only undoubted specimens will be received in 

 exchange. — W. Mark Tybus, Solicitor, 7 Poplar Crescent, Gates- 

 head-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, fleas and animal parasites in exchange for first-rate 

 mounted objects ; also diatomaceous gatherings, recent and fossil. 

 — J. B., 24 Tilson Road, Tottenham. 



Forty-six parts of "Countries of the World," and Vol. iv. of 

 "Races of Mankind" (bound) in exchange for microscope or 

 fossils. — Alex. Shaw, Mrs. McKnight, 56 Dover Street, Glasgow. 



The following species of sEcidia, crassum, Berberidis, Violce, 

 Rubellani, offered in exchange for various Roestelia and Peri- 

 dermia, or sEciditim Allii, Taraxaci, Orchidiaru»i, Thalictri, 

 Galii, or Bunii. — Address, H. J. Roper, 5 Lausanne Road, 

 Peckham, S.E. 



For slides of bramble brand, jEcidium Tiissilagiiiis, Aicidium 

 Bcrberis (Podura scales, two species), Lepisma, and Fuinaria 

 hygrometrica , send other slides of interest. — J. Forty, Well 

 Street, Buckingham. 



Wanted, to purchase " Class-book of Botany," by J. H. 

 Balfour, 3rd ed., 1870, or other edition. State price, and what 

 edition.— R. B. Lindsay, 1 St. Ann's Terrace, Stamford Hill, N. 



Eggs. Will give micro slides, fossils, or eggs in exchange for 

 British birds' eggs. — A. D. H., 53 Sheriff Street, Rochdale. 



Wanted, named fragments of British or foreign sponges. 

 Will return to sender a mounted slide of the spicules of each 

 species of sponge lent me. — Send lists to J. Smith, 94 Dundas 

 Street, Glasgow. 



Wanted, eggs of hobby, merlin, kite, buzzard, tawny owl. 

 nightjar and cuckoo. Will give micro slides, fossils, or cash. — 

 Address, A. W. Chapman, 26 Oxford Street, C. on M., Man- 

 chester. 



Wanted, a good work on the microscope. Will give in ex- 

 change Ledwick's "Anatomy" (nearly new) and " Dottings on 

 the Roadside in; Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito," by Capt. 

 Bedford Pirn, or other books, or will give cash. Please give 

 name of book and price, when writing. — R. J. Hayes, Boyle, 

 Co. Roscommon, Ireland. 



English fly-trap (Drosera rotundifolia). For living plants 

 of above, in fine condition, send well-mounted slide, or un- 

 mounted diatoms, or foraminifera, with stamp, to John Lewis, 

 6 Shaftesbury Terrace, Westbourne, Bournemouth. 



Eggs of the grasshopper warbler (side-blown) and nests in 

 exchange for other rare species. — Thomas H. Hedworth, Dun- 

 ston, Gateshead. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Nature's Bye-paths : a Series of Recreative Papers in 

 Natural History." By J. \_E. Taylor, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 

 London : D. Bogue. 



" Science a Stronghold of Belief." By R. B. Painter. Lon- 

 don : Sampson Low & Co. 



" Ponds and Ditches." _ By M. C. Cooke, LL.D. London : 

 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 



"Text-Book of Botany." Translated from the German of 

 Dr. Prantl, by S. H. Vines, D.Sc, &c. London: W. S. Son- 

 nenschein & Allen. 



" English Dogges." Reprint. "Bazaar " Office, 170 Strand. 



"British Dogs." Parts X. and XL Ditto. 



" Practical Trapping." By W. Carnegie. Ditto. 



"Bee-keeping for Amateurs." By Thomas Addey. Ditto. 



" Practical Photography." By O. E. Wheeler. Ditto. 



" Fancy Pigeons." Parts I. and II. By J. C. Lyell. Ditto. 



"The British Moss-Flora." By R. Braithwaite, M.D., 

 F.L.S., &c. Family I., " Andreaceae." 



" Midland Naturalist." June. 



" Land and Water." June. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." June. 



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



"American Naturalist." June. 



"Canadian Entomologist." 



"Twenty-second Report (1879) of the East Kent Natural 

 Society." 



" Transactions of the Eastbourne Natural History Society." 



"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1878." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from : — 

 T E. S.— F. H. A.— B. M. O— H. A. S — J- S. H.— E. E.— 

 F. H. A.— H. C— H. G. K.— J. H.— J. N.— H. P. M.— 

 C D. W.-A. H.— B. J. W.— A. C. S.— E. J. C— W. G. C— 

 T. McG— A. W.-E. L— J. B.— D. & C.-F. S.-J. S.— 

 R. T. B.-J. F.— H. D. S.— J. J.-H. McK.— B. H.— C. P.— 

 j. v.— W. J. H.-J. P.— J. W.— J. G.— H. V— R. C— S. E. P. 

 -F. A. D.— J. C.-F. H. C— C. C. W.— J. A.— G. H. K.— 

 H. B. W.— J. F. R.-R. S.— H. B. R— R. S.— G. M.— M. M. 

 — W. A. F.— G. D.— C. C. W.— R. W.— T. E. A.— J. A.— 

 F. S. L.— J. H. H.— F. H. H.— T. B.— W. D. S.-M. M. T.— 

 A. N.-G. W.— J. K.-H. P. R.— J. T.— T. D.-W. D.- 

 W. B. T.— F. J. G— E. F. B.— F. S.— H. W. K— Miss M.— 

 T. T. A.— A. M. P.-F. P.-G. P.— F. R. G. S. I.— P. S.-H. P. 

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

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

 — C. F. F.-A. S.-J. E. W.-&C. 



