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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Meta.— Alas! The chrysalis reached us in as flattened a 

 State as the arm of a strong post-office clerk could reduce it to 

 by stamping. 



EXCHANGES. 



Will those applicants for polyzoa, which were advertised to 

 be given away in the December number of Science-Gossip 

 who have not already arranged for the expense of sending, 

 kindly forward three or four stamps for postage ! The immense 

 number of applications renders this request a necessity. 



Sections of the meteorite of Braunfels, containing fluid- 

 cavities with vacuoles in perpetual motion ; well mounted. 

 Will take in exchange scientific books.— H. Hensoldt, 7 Machell 

 Road, Nunhead, Lundon, S.E. 



Wanted, three good specimens of Cladonta sylvatica. or of 

 Sticta sylvatica for three of Sticta intricata, var. Thouarsii.— 

 James McAndrew, New Galloway, N.B. ' 



Microscope, slides and apparatus cost 8/. Vv hat offers in 

 books ?— F. Long, 20 Lome Street, Burnley, Lancashire. 



Fossil diatoms from Frauzensbad in Bohemia, and Celle in 

 Hanover (any quantity), in exchange for whatever good micro- 

 material, mounted or unmounted. — T. C. Rinnbock, 14 Sim- 

 mering, near Vienna, Austria. 



Wanted, a correspondent in Ireland to exchange aquatic 

 (phanerogamic) plants ; rarity is not so much wanted as good 

 and carefully-dried specimens. European and British aquatic 

 phanerogams, junci, or carices offered. — A. B., High Street, 

 Croydon, Surrey. 



Wings of Urania ripha>us (most brilliant lepidopteron 

 I known), Ornithoptera rhadaiuanthus, Procridae (green 

 foresters, metallic scales), for the microscope ; the following 

 shells : Helix ericetorum, Chiton marginatus, Helix Cantiana, 

 Trochus tumidus, Bulimus acutus, Trockus cinerarins, 

 Venus fasciat us, Xatica Alderi, Venus ovata, Zonites 

 ccllarins, Cyclostoma elegdns, Vcncrufis iris, Tapes virgincus. 

 Several species of Madagascar coleoptera, wood-section 

 (Japanese). Desiderata, mounted microscopic objects, speci- 

 mens of the Chrysididae, Rye's "British Beetles" or 

 Messer's " British Wild Flowers by Natural Analysis."— Joseph 

 Anderson, jun., Chichester, Sussex. 



Will send list of micro slides to choose from for unmounted 

 material.— S. R. Hallam, 22 High Street, Burton-on-Trent. 



A packet of twelve unmounted animal hairs, including 

 lion tiger, leopard, hyaena; black, white and grizzly bears, 

 and' others for well-mounted slide.— A. Draper, 275 Abbey 

 Dale Road, Sheffield. . «•' 



Scarce unmounted animal hairs for other objects ot interest. 

 —A. Draper, 275 Abbey Dale Road, Sheffield. • . 



Wanted Carpenter's ''Microscope and its Revelations, 

 6th edition ; will give in exchange Cassell's "History of the 

 War between" France and Germany," 2 vols, cloth gilt, 

 illustrated, and Cassell's ".Household Guide," vol. 1.— J. Bur- 

 ton, 78 Theobalds Road, London. 



L. C. 7tfr ed., offered 107, 858, 859, gob, 936, 1422, and 

 others. Wanted rare British potamogetons, orchids, or other 

 plants.— Alfred Waller, 17 Low Ousegate, York. _ 



Wanted unmounted, histological, human, and animal, also 

 pathological sections stained .or- not, also parts of insects, 

 cleaned foraminifera, diatoms, spicules, botanical sections of 

 stems, and wood sections, stained or not, also well-mounted 

 slides'of the rarer chemicals, as platino-cyanide of magnesium, 

 chloride of palladium and thallium salts. First-class slides 

 &c, in exchange.— Frederick Martin, Clevedon. 



Large phonograph cost seven guineas, for sale or exchange, 

 what offers?— H. W. Wager, Bank Buildings, Regent Street, 

 Stonehouse, Glos. _ .... , 



Some very interesting microscopic life, ottered in exchange 

 for British land and freshwater shells, or a tube will be sent on 

 receipt of six stamps to defray cost of postage, tubes, &c.— 

 H. W. Wager, Bank Buildings, Regent Street, Stonehouse, 



Glos. . 



Exotic Lepidoptera.— Many species in duplicate, to ex- 

 change for others, exotic only. Wanted particularly species of 

 the genus Papilio for figuring, with a view to a monograph of 

 the genus.— J. C.Hudson, Railway Ter., Cross Lane, Man- 

 chester. . . , 



1 will send a packet containing 36micro-fungi, or 24 spicules 

 of sponges, Gorgonias, &c, some rare and all accurately named, 

 in exchange for 3 really well mounted micro slides on glass slips. 

 Sections and parasites preferred, no diatoms.— J. Tempere, 

 Storrington; Sussex. . 



Wanted, Huxley's " Crayfish," Gosse s Manual of Marine 

 Zoology," Bell's "Crustacea," and Itnyn's " Cyclas and 

 Pisidium."— J. Darker Butterell, 2 St. John Street, Beverley. 



Wanted, tintoil for electric purposes, carbon clamps, 

 binding screws and any cheap electricity apparatus. State 

 lowest price and particulars to — K., 7, St. Paul's Close, 



Walsall. , „ . . . ... 



Having a large number of stamps, of all descriptions, both in 

 albums or singly, or in sina 1 quantities, I will exchange them 

 'or microscopic slides, fossils, electric apparatus, or anything 

 small, in scientific way. Write enclosing particulars to— K., 

 7 St: Paul's Close, Walsall. 



Eggs of king-bird, bluebird, American robin, chipping 

 sparrow, dicker, Indian swift, weaver-bird, scissorbill, and 

 many others, also some English and foreign nests to exchange 

 for other-. — Geo. A. Widdas, Woodsley View, Leeds. 



A collection of foreign shells from South Africa, West 

 Indies, &c, in exchange for British specimens on natural 

 history, or popular works on the same. — S. B. Axford, 15 

 Commercial Road, Bournemouth. 



For exchange, about two hundred species of British lepid- 

 optera. Desiderata: British or foreign lepidoptera; or offers. — 

 A. H. Shepherd, 4 Cathcart Street, Kentish Towd, London. 



Lindsay's "British Lichens," Landsborough's "British 

 Zoophytes," Lewis's "Sea Side Studies," &c, offered in ex- 

 change for Bell's " Stalk-eyed Crustacea," or " Quadrupeds," 

 Bates' " Sessile-eyed Crustacea," Johnston's "Zoophytes," and 

 other Natural History works. — C. A. Grimes, Dover. 



A second-hand book called " Rural Bird Life," by Charles 

 Dixon, which I should like to exchange for some fossils. — F. B. 

 Mason, St. Gregory's, Stratford -on- A von. 



Wanted, trilobites and other Silurian fossils, encrinites 

 with heads. Fossils, corals, and small recent corals, foreign. 

 Cape, limpets, large ones, flint implements. Crystals from 

 lead, iron and copper min^s, also any kinds of fossil Crustacea. 

 Exchange, Haldon fossils, upper greensand ; limestone, 

 fossils, Devon ; polished slabs of Devon corals and sponges ; 

 minerals, Devon and Cornwall ; live marine animals, etc., and 

 sections of the DevoniaiVcorals for the micro'. — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 Mineralogist, Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Wanted to know where I could get th« specimens of animal, 

 and plant life mentioned in Huxley and Martin's " Elementary 

 Biology." Also skeleton of frog, and the more uncommon re- 

 agents referred to. — W. G. Woollcombe, The College, Brighton. 

 Some typical rocks, fossils, and minerals offered in exchange 

 for land and freshwater shells, recent or fossil, foreign or 

 British. — B. B. Woodward, 51 Aynhoe Road, West Kensington 

 Park, W. 



Wanted to exchange Foraminifera (mounted or unmounted: 

 and Polycistinae mounted for other Foraminiferal material, 

 diatoms or other objects. — Harvey, 2 Short Street, Cambridge. 

 " English Mechanic," vols. 29 to 35, first six bound half- 

 calf, cost £1. 12J., also "World of Wonders," Cassell's, coster, 

 bound, also, number of common birds' eggs, such as rooks', 

 wrens', &c. Will exchange for works by Darwin, Huxley, 

 Proctor, Tyndall, Wilson, &c, for minerals, fossils, eggs, or 

 insects. The minerals and fossils may be common as I have 

 got none. — James Smith, 27^, George Street, Aberdeen. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Report of Department of Agriculture," 1880. Washington : 

 Government Printing Office. 



" Propagation of Food Fishes, &c. Commissioners' Report," 

 1882. Washington : Government Printing Office. 



" Colin Clout's Calendar." By Grant Allen. London : Chatto 

 6c Windus. 



"Man before Metals." By . London: C. Kegan Paul, 



&Co. 



" Studies in Microscopical Science." Edited by A. C. Cole. 



" Journal of Conchology." 



" Land and Water." . — 



" Northern Microscopist." 



"Midland Naturalist." / '' 



" Practical Naturalist." - f 



"The Field Naturalist." : 



" The Young Naturalist." . • 



" Natural History Notes." _ , . • 



" County Notes." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Canadian Naturalist." 



" American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." 



" Good Health." 

 . "The Botanical Gazette." 



" The Southern Science Record." . . - ■ ' 



" La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes. ' 



" Le Monde de la Science." | . . 



" Ciel et Terre." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" Bulletin de la Socie'te Beige de Microscopic" 

 &.C. &c. &c 



Communications received' up to iith ult. from : — 

 R H.-F. L.-J. McA- H. H.-J. C. R.-E: C. J.— J. G.- 

 A. H. W.— M. E. P.— H. R. A— A. B.— J. A., jun.— J. C— 

 c F g.-J. B.— H. W. W.— W. B. G.-F. M.— J. S.— H. C. B. 

 -A. D.- C. M.- E.W. A.-A. W.— W. B.— E. S.— J. S.-C. A. 

 — R A R B.— H. E. W;— A. E. G.-W. O.— W. M. S.— 

 A W.-S. R. H.-S. R. B.-T. M. R.-W. F.— B. B. W.— 

 I T — F K— T. S.-C. L. C.-C. K.— T. K.— F. B. M.— N. A. 

 J _r' \. G.— J. S.— A. H. S.— W. B. G.— F. A. A. S.— E. A.C. H. 

 — A'.'j. R. S.— E. C.'j:— W..F.-J. D. B.-A. H. B.— 

 G . r>. c— W; H. J.— R. U. W.— S. B. A.— G. A. W.— P. E. 

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