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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



L. C. 1877. — A variety of duplicates. Lists exchanged. — 

 Rev. H. H. Slater, Sharow Cottage, Ripon. 



FiRST-class anatomical and pathological sections, or mounted 

 slides, in exchange for "bone sections." — Henry Vial, Crediton. 



Diatoms in situ (Isthmia enervis), beautifully mounted, red 

 and white rings on ground edge slides. Exchange for good 

 mounted objects. — A. Smith, The Laboratory, Essex Road, 

 London. 



For slide of hop mould send other slide of interest to John 

 Boggust, junior, Alton, Hants. 



Well-mounted slides of Diatomacea from genuine Peruvian 

 guano, in exchange for other good slides. Send lists to 

 W. Hamilton Reid, Eaglescliffe, Yarm-on-Tees. 



Wanted, L. L. B. Mosses. Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, is, 57. 

 58, 148, 149, 150, 171, 178, 179, 225, 233, 275, 276, 277, 357, 358, 

 367, 368, 397, 425, 476, 477, 553, 554, 559— J. A. Whcldon, 



9 South Street, Scarborough. 



Fossils and recent Foraminifera, mounted and named, offered 

 for similar objects or other scientific exchange by E. Wilson, 

 18 Low Pavement, Nottingham. 



Wanted, L. C. 7th ed. 600, 826, 1028, 1177c, 1186, 1187, 

 ii 88, 1221, 1243, 1369. Send lists of desiderata required. — 

 F. H. Arnold, Emsworth. 



Wanted, Huxley's "Anatomy of Invertebrates"; Gegen- 

 baur's " Elements of Comparative Anatomy " (F. J. Bell's 

 translation), and Nicholson's "Manual of Zoology" (5th edit.). 

 Secondhand, in fair condition. — Fredk. James, Museum, 

 Maidstone. 



Several surplus pieces of carboniferous shale, containing 

 numerous specimens of the bivalve Anthracomya Phillipsii. 

 What offers?— A. Woodward, Whitfield Mount, Upton, 

 Macclesfield. 



Large binocular microscope, with latest improvements, 

 polariscope, &c., value ten guineas. Exchange astronomical 

 telescope.— S., 364 Kennington Road, S.E. 



Set of 12 polarising objects with tourmaline, in mahogany 

 case, cost £2 10s. Exchange physiological micro objects. — S., 

 364 Kennington Road, S.E. 



Fine slides of crystallised silver to exchange for other micro 

 slides. Send list to R. Alexander, 100 Brockley Road, New 

 Cross, S.E. 



Wanted, good specimens of minerals, in exchange for 

 American land and freshwater shells.— D. W., 98 Cranworth 

 Street, Brunswick Street, Chalton-upon-Medlock, Manchester.'; 



Pine tray case to hold 100 microscope slides flat ; ditto, to 

 hold 150 on edge, and 50 flat. Also solid brass mechanical 

 stage, new design. Wanted, microscope glasses, or what offers ? 

 —J. Bennett, John Street, Stroud. 



Wanted, butterflies and moths : purple emperor, white 

 admiral, large copper, large blue, Apollo, death's head, gipsy, 

 Kentish glorv, lappet, also Brazilian butterflies. — J. Bates, 



10 Orchard Terrace, Wellingborough. 



Absorption tubes for micro spectroscope, in exchange for 

 other tubes, or for first-class objects or material.— H. W.,[_io 

 Evering Villas, Upper Clapton, E. 



European mosses, particularly of the genus Andreaea, or any 

 foreign Andrea=a, wanted. British mosses in exchange.— J. C, 

 33 Plymouth Avenue, Longsight, Manchester. 



Living Bacillaria parado.xa, associated with several species 

 of Pleurosigma, offered for first-class slides.— W. H. Shrubsole, 

 F.G.S., Sheerness-on-Sea. 



Three vols. "Astronomical Register," a set of new diagrams, 

 well mounted, suitable for illustrating lecture on astronomy, 

 also ship's quadrant, in good condition, in oak box ; exchange 

 for magic lantern, or other useful exchange.— W. D. Tiddel, 

 37 Greenhough Street, Wigan. 



Wanted to exchange a few of the Myxomycetes for others. 

 Arcyia punicea, and several species of Trichias offered. — 

 Thomas Whitelegge, 64 Curzon Road, Hurst, near Ashton- 

 under-Lyne. 



Pine cabinet, suitable for fossils, shells, minerals, &c, height 

 20 inches, breadth 18 inches, depth n inches, 6 drawers ranging 

 from 2i to 3 inches deep, in exchange for good eye-piece boy's 

 own microscope, French or German, achromatic object glasses, 

 or ofters. Also for exchange a pine tray cabinet, to hold 300 

 microscope objects. Will give both cabinets for good object 

 glass for microscope, Kelner's achromatic eye-piece, or offers. 

 — Harold W. Wager, Middle Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire. 



A slide of either of the following injected tissues, viz. liver, 

 tuberculous lung, porpoise kidney, offered in exchange for rare 

 micro-fungi (mourned or unmounted) or rare animal parasites 

 (mounted). Send list (not returnable) of offers first.— James 

 Simpson, 48 Artliur Street, Queen's Park, Edinburgh. 



Nearly 100 specimens (50 species) of North American Cole- 

 optera, in exchange for books, microscopic slides, or British 

 Lepidoptera, and pupa;.— Joseph Anderson, jun., Alve Villa, 

 Chichester, Sussex. 



A cylinder electric machine in good condition, cylinder 

 10 inches in diameter, mounted on mahogany stand, height 

 24 inches, with prime conductor, with brass fittings and screw 

 adjustments, &c, 3 Leyden jars varying from one quart to a 

 gallon. Will exchange for one i-inch achromatic object glass and 

 one B. eye-piece, or a single nose-piece of three powers achro- 

 matic— F. W. S., 3 Western Buildings, London Road, Stroud, 

 Gloucestershire. 



Wanted, British and foreign Coleoptera. Exchange books, 

 &c, or would give cash.— J. H. P., 29 Great Coram Street, 

 Brunswick Square, London, W.C. 



Penning's " Field Geology " 2nd edit., new, for " Half Hours 

 among English Antiquities," new edition.— A. G. Wright, 

 Newmarket. 



What offers for good three-draw telescope (cost 12.?. 6d.) 1 

 Wanted good diatomaceous material and slides, or cash. — T., 

 1 Harleyford Road, Vauxhall, S.E. 



Offers wanted for a collection of 1800 fossils (900 species), 

 Science-Gossip, 1876 to 1880 inclusive, "Quarterly Science 

 Review," 1877 to 1878, bound in cloth.— Arthur Floyd, Alcester, 

 Warwickshire. 



Very rare (English) Trigonia pulchella, from upper lias shale, 

 in exchange for other rare specimens. — W. D. Carr, St. Edmonds, 

 Silver Street, Lincoln. 



Wanted, "Tenby," or other works by P. H. Gosse, in ex- 

 change for Tandon's " World of the Sea," best edition, coloured 

 illustrations (cloth, gilt edges), published at one guinea, quite 

 new. — C. A. Gwines, 7 Crafford Street, Dover. 



Red Crag Fossils, about twenty different species, in exchange 

 for trilobites, or other fossils — or cash. — W. P., 65 Cricket-field 

 Road, Lower Clapton, London, N.E. 



Powerful microscope, fitted to pair of oxy-hydrogen lan- 

 terns, also aphingescope fitted to same, for throwing small 

 objects, flowers, shells, photographs, &c, on the screen 

 powerfully magnified. With complete accompanying apparatus, 

 gas-bags, &c, all packed in strong box. Will exchange for 

 large drawer-cabinet or other useful offer, or will take cash. — 

 W. P., 65 Cricket-field Road, Lower Clapton, London, N.E. 



In exchange for cash : Science-Gossip for twelve years, 

 1868 to 1879 '• complete, in good condition, but not bound. — ■ 

 Mrs. William Hill, Bearalston, Roborough, Devon. 



For exchange, eggs of blackcap, G. warbler, lesser white- 

 throat, carrion crow, long-tailed tit, cock tit, tree-creeper, 

 jay, &c. for others not in collection, or for Lepidoptera. — 

 G. Dewar, Doles, Andover, Hants. ; 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Steam and the Steam Engine," revised and enlarged 

 edition. By H. Evers, LL.D. Glasgow : W. Collins & Sons. 



"A Simple Treatise on Heat." By M. Mathieu Williams. 

 London : Chatto & Windus. 



" Unconscious Memory." By Samuel Butler. London : 

 David Bogue. 



"History of North American Pinnipedes." By Joel Asaph 

 Allen. Washington: Government Printing Office. 



"Ferns and Ferneries." London: Marshall Japp. 



"The American Naturalist." November. 



" Science." October. 



"Canadian Entomologist." October. 



"American Entomologist." October. 



"Good Health." (New York.) October. 



"The American Monthly Microscopical Journal." October. 



" The American Journal of Microscopy." October. 



" The Boston Journal of Chemistry." October. 



"The Scottish Naturalist." October. 



" The Journal of Science." November. 



"Annual Report of the West London Scientific Association." 



"The Young Naturalist." 



"The Midland Naturalist." November.. 



" Journal of the Microscopical Society of Victoria." Nos. r, 

 2 and 3, vol. i. 



" Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society." Vol. iii. part 1. 



" La Science pour Tous." 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



"Land and Water." I 



&c. — ; &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from :— 

 D. D.— W. R.-C. F. W. T. W.— H. B— J. M. C— E. E.— 

 W. R.— A. H. S. W.-W. H. G.— W. K. M.— H. L.— W. J.— 

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

 R. B. L.— A. C— C. P.-W. H. T. P.— J. H. R.— J. Y.— 

 p. q. K.— J. R. Y. G.— H. H. S.— H. M.— T. S. M— P. Z. 



— K.K. H.— E. H.— J. W— M. D.— W. E— W. H. S.— 

 R. A. B.— T. G. C— H. E. W.— W. H. T. P.-C. F. Y.— 

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

 H. C. W.— R. V.— R. Mc. A.— M. E. O. J.— J. D. B.— B. H. 

 — F. H.— L. M. B.— H. R.— J. I.— F. A. L.— F N. H.— 

 G. C C— G. M.— S. J.— W. G. W.— J. A. W.— J. A. O. C— 

 A. H. S. W.-J. B.— A. S.-H. V.-J. S. W.— J. A. W.— 

 R F. T— H. M.— L. H.- G. H. G— M. M.— J. G.— W. H. R. 

 —J. L.-G. F. L.— T. T.-J. A.— W. D. C— J. H.— C. F. Y. 

 — H. W. W.-A. G. W.-G. M.— J. S.-F. W. S.-W. D.-W. 



— T. G— D. S.— S. D.— D. P.— C. F.— B. J. W.— J. A. F.— 

 W. C. H.— E. W.— F. H. A.— E. W.— F. J.— A. W.— S.— 

 J. H. P.-R. A.-D. W.-J. B.— H. W.-J. B.— J. C.— 

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

 G. D.— J. J. M.— F. L.-&C. 



