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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



E. A. Brunetti. — Get Wood's " Insects at Home " (Long- 

 man), or Staveley's "British Insects" L. Reeve & Co.). 

 Staveley's " British Spiders " (L. Reeve & Co.), will answer 

 the purpose of your latter query. 



F. Newton Williams. — See the two articles, "Aids to the 

 Choice of Books on Botany " (by Bernard Hobson), which 

 appeared in Science-Gossip last year. Therein you will find 

 all the information you seek. 



W. Gregson. — You may obtain the " Reports of the American 

 Agricultural Commission," and also Dr. Hayden's " Report on 

 the Geology of the Territories," from Mr. W. Wesley, Natural 

 History bookseller, Essex Street, Strand, London. 



A. G. Wright. — There can be no doubt your pottery is 

 Romano-British. From the sketch we should judge it to be 

 some domestic utensil. 



A. Leinad. — We do not think the "moss" could have done 

 the mischief to your aquarium ; but we cannot tell what plant 

 the " moss " is. Send us a bit. Perhaps you have too many 

 animals in your aquarium. 



EXCHANGES. 



Fossils from the mountain limestone, coal measures, and 

 silurian rocks, offered for characteristic basaltic, or trachytic 

 rocks, or other minerals. — F. Ashton, 46 Lingard Street, 

 Moss Side, Manchester. 



Seven volumes of " Nature " offered for Anne Pratt's " Wild 

 Flowers, Grasses, and Ferns." — Elizabeth Edwards, Mayfield 

 House, Newcastle, Staffordshire. 



Various species of /Ecidia to exchange for other micro-fungi ; 

 send list of offers and requirements to Henry J. Roper, 5 Lau- 

 sanne Road, Peckham, S.E. 



A collection of minerals, fossils, reptiles, shells, snails, from 

 Portugal, 35 species Portuguese and Madeira ferns pressed, 

 80 species lichens, go mosses, 85 sea-weeds, hepathics, a col- 

 lection of gramina, some eggs of Portugal, some insects, zoo- 

 phytes, starfish, echinus, &c, Portuguese o'd coins and archae- 

 ological objects, for British birds' eggs, and fossils and minerals 

 classified. — Apply to F. Newton, care of J. Newton, Oporto, 

 Portugal. 



Wanted, " Babington's Manual," thin paper pocket edition, 

 complete, clean. State edition and net price post free, to 

 B. Hobson, Tapton Elms, Sheffield. 



Beetles. Wanted to purchase, English and foreign works 

 on the Coleoptera, and odd volumes of journals containing 

 monographs. State lowest price. — E. D. Marquand, Hea, 

 Madron, Penzance. 



Scales of boar-fish, Capros Aper, mounted for examination 

 with spotlens, for exchange. Send list to E. Matthews, 40 Pon- 

 sonby Place, Vauxhall Bridge, London, S.W. 



Foreign Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, &c, in 

 exchange for other insects, books, or apparatus. — F. \V. Savage, 

 University School, Hastings. 



Offered L. C. 7th ed., Nos. 25, 135, 201, 183, 217, 219, 226, 

 233, 234, 293, 433, 709, 923, 1014, Sisymbrium paiiiionicum 

 (Jacq.), and many others. Send lists for exchange.— A. E. 

 Lomax, 41 Church Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead. 



Eggs of guillemot, eider-duck, Arctic, common and Sandwich 

 terns, herring-gull, lesser black-backed gull, wood wren, garden 

 warbler, blackcap warbler, treepipit, lesser redpole, black- 

 headed bunting, for other eggs. — Thomas H. Hedworth, Dun- 

 ston, Gateshead. 



Wanted, slides of diatoms (good), for slides of AmpJiiroa 

 Alata. — E. W. Burgess, 3s Langham Street, W., London. 



Side-blown eggs of hobby, kestrel, pied flycatcher, dipper, 

 wheatear, grasshopper, warbler, wood warbler, capercaillie, 

 golden plover, oyster-catcher, redshank, C- sandpiper, dunlin, 

 curlew, lesser tern, lesser black-backed gull, black-headed gull, 

 &c., in exchange fur other side-blown eggs not in collection. — 

 J. Lancaster, 15 Henry Street, Carlisle. 



Foraminifera, marine algae, with diatoms in situ, charac- 

 teristic animal and vegetable hairs, &c. (well-mounted), for 

 other good slides or material. Lists exchanged. — J. Ford, The 

 Uplands, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. 



Wanted, in exchange for southern lepidoptera, northern or 

 continental specimens. Lists exchanged. — E. Andrews, Apsley 

 Lodge, Rosherville, Kent. 



Wanted to exchange side-blown eggs (one or two holes), of 

 rook, jackdaw, magpie, doves, and lapwing, for micro-slides, 

 animal or vegetable. — G. Forden, Sandon, near Stone, Stafford- 

 shire. 



Dozen of young plants of VallUneria, for half-a-dozen micro- 

 scopical sections. — John Simm, West Cramlington, Northumber- 

 land. 



Superior binocular microscope, with latest improvements and 

 polariscope, &c, no objectives, cost ,£18 i8j. What offers. — 

 S., 364 Kennington Road, S.E. 



A collection of 400 micro objects in case ; what offers for 

 the lot or exchange. Some for injected slides. — S., 364 Ken- 

 nington Road, S.E. 



Wanted, " Tenby," by P. H. Gosse. will give "Devonshire 

 Coast," by same author, or cash in exchange. Charles A. 

 Grimes, 7 Crafford Street, Dover. 



Wanted, British wild flowers named. — Exchange of them 

 or ferns. — Miss Ridley, Moy Laggan Lodge, Kingussie, N.B. 



Wantfd, two eagle's eggs, two purple emperor butterfly's, 

 two death-head moth's. — R. Darling, Eyke Rectory, Wood- 

 bridge, Suffolk. 



Some goo'd birds' eggs, to exchange for others ; a small 

 compound microscope with live box, glass for water, six slides, 

 and one and two inch powers, and several accessories for mount- 

 ing, with about three dozen thin glass covers, for mounting both 

 round and square, with some best ground-edge slips for good 

 birds| eggs or cash.— S. E. W. Duvall, 4 Buttermarket, 

 Ipswich. 



Wanted, Neolithic (polished) celt ; will give in exchange 

 bones from Cambridgeshire fen. — A. G. Wright, Newmarket. 



First-class mounted slides given in exchange for the follow- 

 ing : Peterhead deposit, Premnay and Cantyre plat, good 

 gathering of Navicitla rhomboides, Pinnularia alpina, 

 P. lata, or animal fleas and parasites. — J. B., 24 Tilson Road, 

 Tottenham. 



Wanted, rubbings of monumental brasses, coins, curiosities, 

 &c, in exchange for Thanet sand fossils, &c— F. Stanley, 

 Margate. 



Potamogeton triclioides (Cham.), for P. nitens, P. decipiens, 

 P. sparganitolius, or P. jili/ormis. — A. B., 107 High Street, 

 Croydon, Surrey. 



For sale or exchange. Baker's Medical Microscope, three 

 eye-pieces. Wanted, Collings' Histological Micro complete. — 

 W. Rose, Braintree. 



Good specimens of Lim. Burnetti (from Loch Skene, Dum- 

 friesshire), Vertigo alpestris (from Patterdale, Westmoreland*, 

 Vertigo minittissima, and Helix obvolnta, offered tor Vertigo 

 substriata, N. pusitla, Tcstncella kaliotoidea, Geomalocus 

 maculosiis, or numerous other desiderata amongst the British 

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



Duplicates L. C. 7th ed., 6, 14, 41, 56, 59, 67, 93, 117, 130c, 

 132, 140, 135, 141, i55 A -> '5", 173. 2 °5> 220, 259, 271, 273, 277, 

 282, 283, 303, 350, 351, 368, 384, 407, 468, s. and e., 486, 402, 

 55°, 552, 555. 574, 609, 657, 735, 738, 821, 841, 857, 861, 863, 

 865, 893, 923, 932, 942, 963, 974. 1003, 1017, 1028, 1051, 1053, 

 1069, 1138, 1149, 1219, 1244, 1258, 1264, 1306, 1318, 1337, 1387, 

 1405, 1419, 1421, for others. — G. Robson, 92 Cranbourne Street, 

 Leicester. 



L. C. 7th ed. Wanted Nos. 309, 326, 613, 553, 557, 562, 660, 

 661, 663, 669, 672, 702, 703, 716, 722, 726, 815, 870, 894, 935, 

 1019, 1032, 1138, 1143, 1246, 1204, 1221, 1225, 1230, 1231, 1235. 

 Good plants in exchange. — J. A Wheldon, 9 South Street, 

 Scarborough. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas." 

 By H. C. McCook. Philadelphia and London: J. B. 

 Lipincott & Co. 



" ADictionary of English Plant Names." By James Britten, 

 F.L.S., and Robert Holland. Part ii. London : Tri'ibner & Co. 



" Notes on Game and Game Shooting." By J. J. Manley, 

 M.A. London: " Bazaar " Office, Strand. 



" Animal Magnetism." By Rudolf Heinhain, M.D. Trans- 

 lated by J. C. Wooldridge, B. Sc. London: C. Kegan Paul 

 & Co. 



" The Heart and its Actions." London: David Bogue. 



" A Treatise of Fvsshynge with an Angle." By Dame 

 Juliana Berners (Reprint). London : Eliot Stock. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." August. 



" American Naturalist." August. 



"Angler's Note Book." No. 12. 



" Le Monde de la Science et de ['Industrie." August. 



"The Book of the Rabbit." By L. N. Gill. "Bazaar" 

 Office. 



"American Journal of Microscopy." July. 



"Portfolio of Drawings of Living Organisms." By Thomas 

 Bolton. 



"Midland Naturalist." August. 



"Practical Fisherman." Parts VIII. and IX. 



" British Dogs." Part XIII. " Bazaar " Office. 



" Fancy Pigeons." Part IV. Ditto. 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." August. 



" Land and Water." August. 



" Animal World." August. 



"Journal of Applied Science." August. 



"Good Health." August. 



"La Science pour Tous." August. 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to 9TH ult. from: — 

 T B. W.— J. F. R.— E. E.— F. N.— W. T. G.— R. L.— J. T. A. 

 — T. P. B.— A. L.— M. H. R.— A. B.— W. R.— Dr. H. J. J. L. 

 — R. S.— S. E. W. D.— W. D.— P. K.— A. G. W.— F. S.— J. S. 

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



F. L. St. A.— A. M.— D. M.— E. D. M.— D. B.— F. N. W.— 



G. R.— S. E. P.-E. L.— G. A. W.-W. D. S.— E. A. B.— 

 F. S. L.— F. W. S.-R. H. A.— A. E. L.— J. L.— J. W., jun.— 

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

 -E. F.— J. F.-E. A.-W. E. M— G. F.-W. M. W.-G. C. G. 

 -G. D.-H. P. M.-C E. J.-O. V. A.-P. S.-&c. 



