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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



" Calamagrostis stricta," for other rare plants or grasses, 

 such as C. epigeios and Nos. 1519, 1513, 1550, 1551, 1552, 1553, 

 1554. 1555, 1566, 1507, 1479. 1480, 1482, 1483, 1484, 1485, 1487, 

 1496, 1497, 1499, 1501, 1504, 1505. — London Catalogue for 1877. 

 Wanted, vol. xi. of a 4W. Herbarium, or " Hortus Siccus," 

 bound in parchment, formerly the property of Mr. Edward 

 Wilson (who appears to have been on familiar terms with 

 Professor Henslow in 1829 1 ; exchange or cash. Information 

 respecting Mr. Wilson will be acceptable. — John N. Dufty, 

 Grammar School, Tuxford. 



Wanted, good specimens of local objects of Natural History 

 in every department (animal, vegetable, mineral, and fossil), in 

 exchange for other specimens microscopic slides, scientific ap- 

 paratus, books, or cash. — William Cash, 38 Elmfield Terrace, 

 Halifax, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, British Algse in return for dried flowering plants. — 

 Rev. F. H. Arnold, Emsworth. 



Will send four good slides of fossil fish remains, for two 

 slides of tongue of drone fly, and two slides of the tongue 

 of house fly, or blow fly. — John Simm, West Cramlington, 

 Northumberland. 



Eighty species of Scottish mosses, well-mounted, with 

 scientific name, locality, &c. ; for antiquities or recent scientific 

 books. — A. M., 4 Brook Street, Stoke-upon-Trent. 



Wanted, side-blown eggs of golden plover, curlew, sand- 

 piper, ferns, sedge warbler, garden warbler, merlin hobby ; will 

 give micro-pathological slides of cancer, polypus, &c. (Human.) 

 — H. B. Runnalls, St. Judge, Bodmin, Cornwall. 



Will exchange good mounted microscopic objects for \ or \ 

 inch objective ; will also give liberal exchange of mounted objects 

 for unmounted microscopic material. Fragments of gorgonia, 

 sponges, &c. — W. White, 7 Warden Place, York Street, 

 Nottingham. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip for 1872, 1873, ar >d iy 75 : exchange 

 in books, slides, or fossils. Science-Gossip unbound for 1879 

 offered in exchange for ground-edged slips. — E. Edwards, 8 St. 

 John's Cottages, Penge, S.E. 



Will exchange copper and silver coins, and rubbings of 

 monumental brasses, for well-mounted slides of diatoms, foram- 

 inifera, or any other objects of interest.— J. Boggust, jun., 

 1 Rock Cottages, Alton, Hants. 



Good specimens of Limncca Burnetii, from Loch Skene 

 (Dumfries) ; Vertigo alpestris, from Pattersdale (Westmore- 

 land), offered for Vertigo minutissima, V . pusilla. and V. an- 

 gustior, Testacella haliotoidea, Gcomalacus maculosus, or 

 / 'ertigo siibstriata. — W. Sutton, Upper Claremont, Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne. 



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

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

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

 not in collection. — C. F. Bell, n James Terrace, Tait Street, 

 Carlisle. 



Members wanted to join a " Botanical Evercirculator." 

 — J. Wooller, Io Farm Road, Hove, Brighton. 



Mounted or unmounted slides of Uredo segetum, Uredo 

 caricis, also Loliiim temidentum ; will exchange mounted slides 

 of the alkaloids, also slides to illustrate the adulteration of foods. 

 — A. Smith, the Laboratory, Essex Road, Islington. 



Wanted, a good clean copy of Berkeley's " British Mosses," 

 and any other work on Bryology ; state date when published, 

 with lowest cash price. — J. R. Murdock, 40 Leighton Lane, 

 Leeds. 



Good side-blown eggs of the following birds (in exchange for 

 other eggs, or for lepidoptera, desiderata numerous) ; sandwich, 

 common and Arctic terns, cormorant, eider-duck, and lesser 

 black-backed gull. — John J. Walker, 21 Holly Avenue, New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne. 



A collection of upwards of 200 different species of British 

 lepidoptera (many rare), 130 different British birds' eggs (many 

 rare), and a few Natural History books; open to offers, list 

 sent. — A. Smith, 8 South Mount, Aberdeen. 



Wanted, Lindsay's "Popular History of British Lichens," 

 or Cooke's '" Myxomycetes of Great Britain," for either her- 

 barium of 100 species of British mosses or herbarium of 120 

 uncommon species of British flowering plants. — X., 14 Sherborne 

 Road, Bradford. 



One dozen Droser.i rotzmdifolia in good condition for obser- 

 vations, carefully packed, post free for one mounted slide (pre- 

 ferably Acara). — J. H. Wilson, 6 West Park, Harrogate. 



Volumes i to 5 Hardwicke's Sciesce-Gossip, and "British 

 Hepatica:," both complete ; offers solicited. — Charles Aubrey 

 Day, 95 Navarino Road, Dalston, E. 



Wanted, with fruit Pottia crinita, Hookeria lesterrens, 

 Didymodon Jiexif alius, Glyplioinitrium Daviesii, Daltonia 

 splachnoides, Hypnum micans, and Hypnum demission, also 

 any foreign species of Orobancheand Chara ; exchange rare fern 

 fronds, &c— Miss Ridley, Moy Laggan Lodge, Kingussie, N.B. 

 Unio tnmidus var. ovalis offered for foreign shells, for Dudley 

 corals, or for fossil fern leaves contained in nodules ; many 

 other rare British shells in duplicate offered, also Rhaetic 

 fossils.— Miss Fanny Kele, Elmgrove Road (Fairlight), Cotham, 

 Bristol. 



Wanted to purchase, a small wooden press, suitable for 

 pressing plants for the herbarium.— R. B. Lindsay, 1 St. Ann's 

 Terrace, Stamford Hill, N. 



Wanted, Babington, Hooker, or Bentham's " Flora," of 

 recent issue, Gabriel and Haughton's " Theoretical Mechanics," 

 Smith's "Latin Principia," Part II., G. L. Bennett's "Second 

 Latin Writer," and Todhunter's " Spherical Trigonometry." 

 Cash. — Webb, 13 Padeham Road, Burnley. 



Wanted, pretty mosses for ornamental purposes. Crista 

 castorensis, filicinum, tamariscimim, splendens, &c. , good ex- 

 change or cash. — J. Baker, Speakland Cottages, Edge Hill, 

 Liverpool. 



For "Field Naturalist's Handbook" (Wood), a splendidly 

 mounted slide of Indian wood moralee, if the book is in good 

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

 N.W. 



Spicules Fijian gorgonia, plates of Primnoa australis, 

 Santonine (all fine polarising), and spicules J. latronis, offered 

 for well-mounted parasites, or other insect preparations, or for 

 picked diatoms. Pleurosigmas especially wanted. Stage-forceps 

 for exchange. — E. Clover, Springfield, Sudbury, Suffolk. 



Superior binocular microscope with quantity of apparatus, 

 and ;, T V, T V objectives, by Powell and Lealand. Exchange 

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

 S.E. 



Superior mahogany cabinet suitable for moth, butterflies, 

 &c, 13 drawers, 8X5, cost .£3 tos. ; exchange injected objects. 

 — S., 364, Kennington Road, S.E. 



Superior anatomical and pathological sections, stained and 

 ready for mounting, in exchange for mounted slides, insects 

 preferred. — H. Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



I have a few specimens of Anemone Pulsatilla, which I shall 

 be happy to distribute among persons wanting the species. 

 Send name and address, and return postage to J. W. Carr, 

 28 Emery Street, Cambridge. 



Wanted, a good telescope ; will give in exchange Science- 

 Gossip, from September, 1873, to present month, unbound, 

 capital condition. — G. S., Elm Grove, Ealing, W. 



Couch's " British Fishes," 1st edition, 4 vols, perfect, for 

 good egg cabinet. — E. E. Evans, Brinscombe, Gloucestershire. 



For Orchis incarnata, write F. S. Cook, Icklesham, Rye, 

 Sussex. 



Foster's "Text-Book of Physiology" (quite new), for Bal- 

 four's "Comparative Embryology," vol. i., or Rolleston's " Forms 

 of Animal Life." — Arthur Marshall, 35 Connaught Square, 

 London, W. 



Fresh collected examples of Melanippe kastata, Russula 

 (and eggs of Russula), Paphia, and Adippe, offered in exchange 

 for British birds' eggs ; send list of duplicates. — G. Garrett, 

 Harland House, Wherstead Road, Ipswich. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Geography, Physical, Historical, and Descriptive." By 

 Keith Johnston. London : Edward Stanford. 



" Freshwater Rhizopods of North America." By Dr. Leidy. 

 Washington, United States Government. 



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

 F.L.S., &c. Family II., " Buxbaumiaceae," and Family III , 

 " Georgiacese." 



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



" Scottish Naturalist." July. 



"Midland Naturalist." July. 



" Journal of Conchotomy." 



Thos. D. Russell's " Natural History Circular." 



Brook's " Popular Botany." 



Report of the " Chichester and West Sussex Natural History 

 and Microscopical Society." 



"British Dogs." Parts XII. "Bazaar " Office, 170 Strand. 



" Fancy Pigeons." Parts III. By J. C. Lyell. Ditto. 



"The Practical Fisherman." Part VII. Ditto. 



" Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society and 

 Hertfordshire Field Club." June. 



" American Naturalist." July. 



"The American Journal ot Microscopy." June. 



"Good Health." June. 



"American Entomologist." June. 



Bulletin of the " Essex Institute." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from: — 

 r. \v. C.— A. P.— W. G.— W. W.— H. M.— E. W— J. K.— 

 S. A. B— G. C— R. D— W. R. B.— E. E.— Dr. J. F.— F. L. 

 — T. H. B.— J. A.— H. J. W.— A. J. T.— W. L.— F. J. G.— 



F. H. H.-H. P.-W. W.— H. V. B.— W. P.— H. W.-R. E. 

 — G. W. B.-F. H. A.— W. D.— F. H.— W. C.-E. C— A. C. 

 A. B.— H. E.W.— W. H. S.— M. E. O. J.— J. F.— A. M. McA. 

 — H. B. R.— J. T.— C. E. N.— S. D.— J. H. W— C. A. D.— 

 J. E. K.— M. N.— J. N. D.— F. W. C— J. H. W.— W. W.— 

 R. H.— T. J. L.— M. M.— J. D. W.— W. M. W.— J. R. M.— 

 E. M.— A. S— J. W— W. J. C— J. A. B. O.-W. W.— R. B. L. 

 — C. F. Y.— E. C.-T. B. L.— E. E.— P. K.— S. E. P.— H. H. 

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

 W. W. K.— E. F. B.— R. W.— W. H.— J. B.— T. B. W.— 

 J. D. H— W. H— P. S.— H. V.— W. H.— J. W. C.-G. W.— 



G. S— T. G— E. B. P.— E. E. E.-F. S. C— J. S.— &c. 



