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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



The undermentioned unbound books, in good order, for cabi- 

 net for microscopic objects, to hold not less than 500 : — Science- 

 Gossip, from 'Jan. 1865 to Dec. 1878, Sept. 1S76 missing; 

 " Intellectual Observer " and "Student and Int. Ob ," Aug. 

 1864 to Jan. 1871, five or six coloured plates missing ; " Popular 

 Science Review," Jan. 1870 to April 1878; "Leisure Hour," 

 Jan. 1880 to Dec. 1882. Or what offers?— E. H. Robertson, 

 Swalcliffe, Banbury, Oxon. 



Wanted, Rye's " British Beetles," in good condition ; will 

 give in exchange, J. G.Wood's "Common Objects of the Mi- 

 croscope," and Harper's " Glimpses of Ocean Life," coloured 

 plates, new ; or any suitable exchange. Also, J. G. Wood's 

 " British Beetles," coloured plates ; will give Coleman's 

 British Butterflies," coloured plates. Wanted, Wood's "Insects 

 at Home" and " Insects Abroad ;" suitable exchange. — John 

 McKay, 30 Hope Street, Glasgow, N.B. 



Science-Gossip for 1878. Desiderata: British birds' eggs 

 (side-blown, one hole), and Lepidoptera, numerous. — F. J. 

 Rasell, 30 Argyle Street, St. James' End, Northampton. 



Wanted, " Popular History of British Lichens," by W. 

 Lauder Lindsay, M.D. — Arthur J. Doherty, 25 Barton Street, 

 Moss Side, Manchester. 



Wanted, "Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural 

 History Objects," by J. E. Taylor; will exchange Lankester's 

 "Half Hours with the Microscope." Also wanted, "The 

 Postal Microscopical Journal " for last year. — L. Francis, 

 20 Frogmore Street, Abergavenny. 



Fossils. — A series of splendid specimens of Upper Silurian, 

 including many Trilobites, Encrinites, &c, given in exchange 

 for a good cabinet. State dimensions to F., 106 Finch Road, 

 Handsworth, Birmingham. 



Wanted, specimens of -the Pre -Cambrian rocks of Lake dis- 

 trict, and other localities, suitable for comparison with Cham- 

 wood Forest. Exchange. H. E. Quilter, 49 Earl Howe Street, 

 Leicester. 



Duplicates : Atalanta, Antiopa, Rhamni, Aegon, Ocellatus, 

 Opiformis, Sambucata, Repandata, Pusaria, Elulata, Litho- 

 xylea, Psi, Viminalis, Meticulosa, Chrysites, Libatrix, Margin- 

 ata, Salicis. Desiderata : Paphia, Agliai, Adippe, Selene, 

 Artemis, Athalia, Z. Minos, Trifolii, Meliloti, Lonocerae, Tristata, 

 Curtula, Reclusa, Trepida, Falcula, Humuli, Villica. — J. Bates, 

 10, Orchard Terrace, Wellingborough. 



Wanted Davis's " Practical Microscopy," Cooke's "Ponds 

 and Ditches," and Microscopic Fungi," or_ other Natural 

 History books. Good value in choice micro slides. List sent 

 on application. — E. Hurry, Chard, Somerset. 



Good trolling or bottom-fishing rod, hardly used, to exchange 

 for micro apparatus or books. — E. Hurry, Chard, Somerset. 



What offers for microphotographs, all French subjects, from 

 the art galleries, mounted on polished glass slips ? List free. 

 R. Blakeborough, 50 Church Street, Guisborough. 



Wanted correspondents in all parts of the world to ex- 

 change living specimens of reptiles and amphibia. — E. Ehn- 

 hart, 14 Gumpendorferstrasse, Vienna, Austria. 



Wanted a good double or triple nosepiece, also a first-class 

 condenser. Exchange well-mounted slides ; sample slides sent 

 if required. — George Ward, Wallwood Nursery, Leytonstone, E. 



Liberal exchange in first-class objects, for polyzoa, Angui- 

 naria spatula. Communicate before sending to E. Wheeler, 

 48 Tollington Road, Holloway, London, N. 



Wanted side-blown eggs English or foreign, in exchange 

 for griffin vulture, white stork, golden-eye duck, kite, caper- 

 cailzie, buzzard, great bustard, and many others ; also some 

 foreign duplicate nests and eggs to exchange. Model of the 

 great ant's egg wanted in exchange for eggs.— G. Widdas, 

 Woodsley View, Leeds. 



For unmounted hairs of orang-outan, chimpanzee, platypus, 

 echidna, &c, send a stamped directed envelope to — George E. 

 Mason, 6 Park Lane, Piccadilly, London. 



Books on Botany and Natural History in exchange for 

 others on mosses, beetles and shells.— W. Macmillan, Castle 

 Cary, Somerset. 



One dozen well-mounted slides of starches, all different, and 

 true to name, in exchange, together or separately, for other 

 slides of interest.— D. Burford, Bowbridge, Stroud, Glos. 



Helix sericea, Val. cristata, Sue. putris, Cyclos. elegans, 

 Pupa secale, Plan, earinatus, and about forty other species in 

 exchange for British or foreign shells. Lists sent. Unac- 

 cepted offers not answered. — F. Wotton, Adamsdown, Cardiff. 



Wanted a copy of Hobkirk's " British Mosses."— A. E. 

 Lomax, 56 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool. 



Transverse section of hedgehog spine, mounted opaque, in 

 exchange for another slide.— John Moore, 12 Parchester Street, 

 near Clifford Street, Birmingham. 



Marine Alg>e, wanted Odonthalia, Rhodomela, Bostrychia, 

 Bonnemaisonia, Sphsrococcus, Nemalion, &c, for Dclcsseria 

 Hypoglossum, Baccaria Whiggii, Polysiphona byssoides, 

 Arthroclada viliosa, Sporochnos pedunculalus, Lomcntaria 

 ovalis. — J. Wooller, n Farm Road, Brighton. 



Carefully named Silurian and other fossils to exchange for 

 others, especially chalk, greensand, oolitic and crag, also 

 Devonian, carboniferous, &c. specimens ; also an excellent 

 ten guinea galvanic battery by Halse, to exchange for a 



food geological cabinet or well-mounted microscopic objects. — 

 '. T. Gwom, Belmont, Wellington, Salop. 



Wanted to exchange a number of second-hand books, 

 several on chemistry. What offers? — J. H. M., 17 Walham 

 Grove, Fulham, S.W. 



Offered with an American unionida and British land and 

 freshwater shells for a good Mitra regitui or Murex clavus. — 

 F. M. Hele, Elmgrove Road, Fairlight, Cotham, Bristol. 



Wood's " Naturalists' Handbook," new, cardboard cells for 

 opaque objects, and good slides. Want in exchange Natural 

 Science books, good micro material and accessories. — J. C. 

 Blackshaw, 57 Cross Street South, Wolverhampton. 



A 4-DRAW telescope with 5 lenses, cost 17J. 6d. ; will exchange 

 for fossils. — F. B. Mason, St. Gregory's, Stratford. 



Diatomaceous earth rich in coxmodiscus, &c, from Calvert 

 County, U.S.A., for a little Bermuda earth or polycistime. — 

 F. J. George, Chorley, Lancaster. 



Wanted foreign polyzoas. I shall be glad to correspond 

 with any one who will be able to send me foreign polyzoas. I 

 will give in exchange first-class slides or material. Spicules 

 and micro-fungi sent in exchange for unprepared material only. 

 See Science-Gossip for February. — J. Tempere, Storrington, 

 Sussex. 



Eggs of osprey, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, black-billed 

 cuckoo, Colin, &c, in full sets, with data to exchange for other 

 eggs. Offers requested. — W. Wells, Bladen Stone, Staffordshire- 



Wanted, coins, medals, tokens, |foreign stamps and post- 

 cards. I offer in exchange good fossils from almost all forma- 

 tions, or seaweeds and other natural objects. — F. Stanley,. 

 6 Clifton Gardens, Margate. 



Wanted the three guinea edition of Sowerby's "British. 

 Botany," with coloured plates (last edition). — Edwin E. Turner,. 

 Post Office, Coggeshall, Essex. 



One thousand foreign stamps for exchange, either in large 

 or small numbers, for micro slides only, diatoms or insects pre- 

 ferred ; accepted offers answered only. Particulars to F. E. H., 

 1 Harcourt Road, Wallington, Surrey. 



Wanted, extremely rare foreign postage stamps and English 

 silver coins, in exchange for butterflies, moths, beetles, birds' 

 eggs and skins, and foreign shells.— W. K. Mann, Wellington, 

 Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



A mahogany cabinet, 20 in. Xi6in.Xi6in. with 8 drawers, 

 each iiin. deep, fitted with trays to hold over 1000 microscopic 

 slides, or without trays suitable for egg or cabinet. Wanted, 

 good, microscopic slides, scientific books, or useful article. — 

 R. L. Hawkins, Ivystead, Hastings. 



Wanted, Helix nemoralis, hortensis and hybrida from, 

 different localities, also any information about their distribution, 

 or pamphlets about them. I will try to make a return. — Hugh 

 Richardson, Ackworth School, near Pontefract. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 " Snakes." By C. G. Hopley. London : Griffith & Farran. 

 " Flora of Hampshire." By F. Townsend. London: Lovell 

 Reeve & Co. 

 " Studies in Microscopical Science," edited by A. G. Cole. 

 " Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society," Feb., 1883. 

 "Transactions of Yorkshire Naturalists' Union," Part. 4. 

 f Land and Water." 

 " Northern Microscopist." 

 "Midland Naturalist." 

 " Practical Naturalist." 

 "The Field Naturalist." 

 " The Young Naturalist." 

 " Natural History Notes." 

 " American Naturalist." 

 " Canadian Naturalist." 



" American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 

 " Boston Journal of Chemistry." 

 " Good Health." 

 "The Botanical Gazette." 

 " La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 

 " Le Monde de la Science." 

 "CieletTerre." 

 " Cosmos : les Mondes." 



*' Bulletin de la Socie'te Beige de Microscopie." 

 &c. &c. &c 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from : — 

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

 A. G. C— F. H. P.— C. F. G.— B. P.— A. H. B.-L. F.— 



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

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

 — F M H — F. W W.— J. H. M.— D. B.— W. M.— G. H. R. 

 — G. E. M.-G. W.-H. M. D.-E. W.-G. W.— C. E.— 



F. E H.- G. E. E.— E. E. T.-L. F.— F. S.— R. B.— F. B. M. 

 -J. H.-A. O.-S. A. B.— F. J. G.-W. W. B.-E. I.- 

 E H. W— E. H.— W. D. R— P. M. C. K— A. J. H.— 

 W K. M.— G. S. B.— D. B. G.— S. S.— G. S. S.-H. R.— 

 R H.-E. F. L.— H. E. Q.-F. T.-W. F.— 0. P. C— E. H. 

 — T. E. A.-W. E. W.— R. G. M.— J. W.— W. J. R.— J. B.— 



G. R., jun.-S. A.-Dr. P. Q. K.-W. H.-J. S.-J. M. Sh.— 

 E H. R.-E. H.— B. T.— M. R. I.— H. E. W.-G. F. H.— 

 G. B.-R. H. W.-F. R. M. S.— H. L., &c. 



