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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Wanted, living specimens of the Great Water Beetle 

 {Hydrous piceus), for my aquarium ; will give Lepidoptera or 

 birds' eggs.— R. McAldovie, 12 St. Nicholas Street, Aberdeen. 



Wanted, one or two slides of Rhabdospheres in exchange 

 for other objects of interest.— W. H. Harris, Caerleon Villa, 

 Partridge Road, Cardiff. 



Wanted, Erica Hibernica, Arbutus Unedo, Menzicsia poll- 

 folia, and Pyrola unijlora. In exchange for any of the above, 



1 will give specimens of each of the following species : Viola 

 hirta, b. calcarea, Vicia gracilis, Althcea oj^icinalis, Seseli 

 Libanotis, Carum Bulbocastanum, Linuvi pcretine, and Loni- 

 cera Caprifolium.—]. W. Carr, 28 Emery Street, Cambridge. 



Wanted, good specimens of minerals, spar, crystals, &c, 

 from Cornwall, Derbyshire, and elsewhere, and especially from 

 the Mourne Mountains. Books, &c, in exchange, or purchase. 

 Particulars to F. R. G. S. I., 9 Royal Terrace West, Kingstown, 

 co. Dublin. 



Wanted, a good bull's-eye condenser, for a turn-table, and 

 some slides.— F. S. Lyddon, 32 High Street, Warminster. 



Duplicate birds' eggs and skins to exchange for others not 

 in collection. — J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, Sunderland, 

 : Polytrichum aliefolnim, for Hypuum Crista-castrensis ; 

 could send other varieties, viz. Dicranum (Fissidens) bryoides 

 and taxifolium, Bartramia pomiformis, and a host of others. 

 Also want a secondhand or cheap book (good authority) on 

 Mosses. — S. F. Conacher, St. Fort, Newport, Fife. 



Carcx oruithopoda, and many other British plants, offered in 

 exchange for others. — Address, H. Searle, Rook Street, Ashton- 

 under-Lyne. 



Am leaving England, and wish to sell a number of greensand 

 and other fossils, and several of Routledge's is. "Books for 

 the Country," on insects, aquarium, &c.,and other publications, 

 at half-price. — J. A. Floyd, Alcester, Warwickshire. 



I have still some mounted slides of Borago Ziglandica (Linn.), 

 hairs rising from silvery calcareous tubercules ; Mauritius. A 

 most beautiful opaque object. Send list of slides for exchange. 

 — Rev. A. C. Smith, Crowboro', near Tunbridge Wells. 



Wanted, some moving spores of the Equisetum. — Rev. 

 A. C. Smith, Crowboro', near Tunbridge Wells. 



Embryo oysters. Spines of Spatangus, spines of Ophiocoi/ta 

 rosula, cleaned, ready for mounting, in exchange for other 

 good unmounted material ; also wanted a good quarter-inch 

 objective, for well-mounted micro objects. Will give liberal 

 exchange. — W. White, 7 Warden Place, York Street, Not- 

 tingham. 



Wanted, " Middleton's Astronomical Atlas," in exchange for 

 shells, fossils, minerals, &c, named and localised. — Address, 

 M. A. O., 82 Abbey Street, Faversham. 



British Mosses wanted in exchange for flowering plants ; 

 send desiderata. — J. Harbord Lewis, 145 Windsor Street, 

 Liverpool. 



Set of twelve polarising objects, with tourmaline in case, 

 value 35^., exchange injected micro slides. — S., 364 Kennington 

 Road, S.E. 



Superior small cabinet with thirteen drawers, suitable for 

 moths, insects, &c. ; exchange microscope with polariscope, or 

 good injected micro slides. — S., 364 Kennington Road, S.E. 



Mounted slides of fossil wood, for other slides. — J. Earn- 

 shaw, 91 Wriley Street, Oldham. 



L. C., 7th ed. Offered 557, 626, 628, 814, 1043, I2 87, and 

 others. Lists exchanged. — D. J. Powrie, M.A., at Mrs. 

 M'Courty's, Dockhead, Dumfries. 



Wanted, dried specimens of Anemone rannncnloides (L.\ 

 Corydalis solida (Hook.), Dianthus caryophyllus (L.l, Althaa 

 hirsuta (L.), Malva verticillata (L.), J\I. parzn/lora (L ), 

 Crocus atireus (Sibth.), Onoclea sensibilis (Willd.), or any 

 other "excluded species." Rare plants in exchange. — J. A. 

 Wheldon, 9 South Street, Scarborough. 



Want ed, good microscope in exchange for Harris & Co.'s 

 excellent achromatic telescope, object glass ii inch diameter, 

 and own shade, drawing out to 36 inches, closing up to iij 

 inches, three draws, the tubes and mountings of brass, the body 

 covered with leather, and a code of signals attached, as good 

 as new. — Edmund Price, Fair View Cottage, Uplands, Stroud, 

 Gloucestershire. 



L. C, 7th ed., offered : Nos. 3c, 6, 11, 38, 59, 133, 180, 209, 

 268, 273B, 276, 317, 361, 367, 394, 495, 531, 557, 571, 581, 584, 

 =•94, 612, 852, 878, 907, 1123, 1130, :257, 1258, 1602, 1603, 1607, 

 1611, 1636, and many others Wanted : 5, 43, 88, 127, 197, 201, 

 202, 227, 249, 360, 388, 474, 516, 575, 579.S80, 590, 613, 746, 817, 

 839. 877. 910, 912, 1007, and others. Send lists. — A. W. Preston, 

 St. Phillip's Road, Norwich. 



British birds' eggs in exchange for others not in collection, 

 one hole side-blown. Merlin, kestrel, sparrow-hawk, clipper, 

 wheatear, oyster-catcher, curlew, sandpiper. — A. Stevenson, 



2 Knox Street, Paisley. 



First-class objects given for parasites from fish. Communi- 

 cate before sending.— E. Wheeler, 48 Tollington Road, Hollo- 

 way, London, N. 



Mounted slides of P. angulatum, for other diatoms named. — 

 M. Fowler, Burn Row, Slamannan, N. B. 



Duplicates L. C, 7th ed., 501B, 626, 1209, 1287, Veronica 



repens, DC, and Potamogeton Zizii, M. and K., for other good 

 plants or mosses, &c. — R. Renton, Fans, Earlston, N. B. 



A collection of minerals, Haldon greensand fossils, and 

 corals, gault and other fossils ; polished slabs of madrepore 

 corals, microscopic section of Devonshire corals ; also Devon- 

 shire corals in the rough, and British shells in any quantity. 

 In exchange for the following : foreign shells, silurian fossils, 

 gault (gault pies), groups of fossils, rare kinds of British shells, 

 polish agates, and all kinds of small foreign recent corals, not 

 larger than an egg, no other offers wanted. — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Rays of starfishes, Ophiocoma rosula, granulala, bellis, dried 

 or in spirits, for other interesting objects, slides, &c. — J. B., 

 36 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow. 



" Chemistry Applied to the Arts and Manufactures," latest 

 edition, complete in eight volumes, published by Mackenzie, 

 Ludgate Hill. For sale, what offers? — H. E. J. Irons, 125 

 Manor Street, Clapham, S.W. 



Duplicates L. C., 7th ed., 1, 3c, 6, 10, 22, 26, 39, 40, 45, 

 57. 59. 80, 112, 178c, 213, 231, 254, 262, 274, 295, 296, 297, 303, 

 3°S, 343. 35°. 352, 355. 3°5. 4°5, 45°, 486, 537, 642, 675, 695, 

 7°3. 7°5. 7°7. 744. 811, 942, 963, 973, 1028, 1036, 1045, 1048, 

 1 164, 1278, 1341, 1342, 1348, 1350, 1504, 1637, 1644, 1645.— 

 J. Jackson, High Street, Wetherby. 



Potentilla fruticosa for botanical, geological, or entomo- 

 logical specimens. — Rev. J. Hich, Staundrop, Darlington. 



I shall be happy to forward to any of your subscribers any 

 fern or Sertularians from this country, in exchange for those of 

 other countries. — A. Hamilton, Petane, near Napier, Hawkes 

 Bay, New Zealand. 



"Naturalist," 1877-1880 (3 vols, unbound), "Midland 

 Naturalist," 1878 (bound), suggestions for forming collections of 

 birds' eggs, by A. Newton, and several vols, and odd numbers 

 of " Natural History Review," in exchange for back vols, 

 (unbound or bound), or parts of "Zoologist," " Entomologist," 

 or " Entomologists' Monthly Magazine," or offers. — Alpha, 

 18 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Land and Freshwater Shells of the British Isles," with 

 illustrations of all the species. By R. Rimmer, F.L.S. London: 

 David Bogue. 



" British Wild Flowers : by Natural Analysis," by Frederick 

 A. Messer. London : D. Bogue. 



" Magnetism and Electricity." By Dr. F. Guthrie. London 

 and Glasgow : W. Collins & Sons. 



"The Book of the Rabbit." Parts I. and II. By L. N.Gil!. 

 London : " Bazaar" Office. 



"The Practical Fisherman." Parts VIII. IX. and X. Ditto. 



" Fancy Pigeons." Parts IV. and V. Ditto. 



" British Dogs." Parts^XIII. and XIV. Ditto. 



" Etude sur les Tempetes de l'Atlantique Septentrional." 

 Par N. Hoffmeyer. 



" Light and Heat." By Capt. W. Sedgewick, R.E. 



" Nectar ; its Nature, Occurrence, and Uses." By William 

 Trelease, Ithaca, New York. 



" Transactions Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club." No. 1. 



"The Oologist." Nos. 5 and 6, vol. v. 



'' The Valley Naturalist." September. 



"The American Naturalist." September. 



" The American Journal of Microscopy." September. 



"The American Monthly Microscopical Journal." Septem- 

 ber. 



"The American Entomologist." August. 



" Les Mondes." September. 



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



" La Science pour Tous." September. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." August and September. 



" Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society." 

 Vol. i. part i. 



" Proceedings Chichester and West Sussex Natural History 

 Society." 



"The Midland Naturalist." September. 



" Land and Water." September. ' , ' 



"Ben Brierley's Journal." September. 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from :— 

 J. H.— C. G. H.-J. F.— M. M.— E. B. P.— S. F. C— E. G. H. 

 — W. F. L.— T. W. N.— S. A. B.— R. A.— T. B. W.— D. D.— 

 W. F. L— G. H. P.— J. H.— T. H.— J. T. T. R.— F. S. L.— 

 E. N.— W. F. L.— E. A. F.— J. S.— W. K. Mc. G— G. M. G. 

 — G. W.— P. K.— F. J. W. O.— H. W.— M. M.— P. M. R.— 

 A. H.— S. A. B.— J. W. C— C. N. J.— H. M.— F. H. H.— 

 W. H. H.— P. K.— R. Mc. A.— J. C. M.— J. H. G.— E. R. F. 

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

 —J. A. W— E. L.-D. J. P.— D. D.— E. P.— C. F. Y.— H. S. 

 —J. A. F— A. C. S.— C. P. C— W. W.— H. J. S. H.— C. B.— 

 A. B.— M. F.— E. W.— P. M. R.— J. B.— E. C. T.— H. E. J. I. 

 —J. C— R. R.-A. B.— A. S.— J. J.— J. J. H.— E. M.— 

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