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HA RD I VI CKE 'S S CIE NCE- G SSI P. 



C. T. Bingham.— You may obtain much very valuable infor- 

 mation about the archaeology near London, pre-historic and 

 otherwise, in the " Half Holiday Handbooks " now being 

 published by T. Fisher Unwin, price gd. each. There are, 

 ■we believe, both English and French Aerostatic Societies, but 

 we do not know their addresses. Perhaps some reader can 

 supply them. 



F. C. King and others.— The " London Catalogue of 

 British Plants" is now, we believe, published by Messrs. 

 W. H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, London. 



M. Morton.— Mr. James English's work on preserving 

 fungi is published at zs. 6d., and may be had of the author at 

 Epping, Essex. 



E. Dickson. — Most of the dealers in microscopic material 

 supply geological slides. Write to T. D. Russell, 48 Essex 

 Street, Strand, or to E. Wheeler, 48B Tollington Road, Hollo- 

 way, London, N. 



W. Bradford. — Your sketch of Aspldlum Jillx-mas as show- 

 ing bifurcation of frond, is very interesting. The phenomenon 

 is not uncommon. 



Maitland Dods. — Vour specimens are, No. 1, Sertularia, 

 No. 2, Sertularia argentea, No. 3, Antennularia antennina. 



W. H. Gomm. — The eggs are those of Natica. 



K. F. — The plant is JMarcliantla polymorpha, one of the 

 liverworts. 



EXCHANGES. 



British, land, freshwater, and marine shells, including Limneea 

 "lutinosa, Unto tumtdus, Achatina acicula, Bithynia Lcachii, 

 Xuculu nucleus, Telllnafabula, and many others, in exchange 

 for British or foreign land and freshwater or British marine. — 

 Sydney C. Cockerell, Glen Druid, Chislehurst, Kent ; 



Wanted, a few specimens of Dytiscus ma.rgin.alis and 

 Gyrinus natator, &c, for mounting for the microscope : must 

 be fresh. — A. Laban, 27 Trinity Road, West Bromwich. 



Wanted, fossils of any kind.— M. Norton, Ridgemount, 

 Basset, Southampton, Hampshire. 



Offered, British shells in exchange for good Paris basin 

 fossils— specially wanted Volutes.— Miss F. Hele, Fairlight, 

 Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



Will exchange micro-sections of coal measure fish remains 

 fir Professor A. Geikie's "Advanced Book on Geology." — 

 Joseph Taylor, Shire Moor, via Easdon, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



I wish to correspond with naturalists in all parts of the 

 world: object, to exchange birds' eggs. — Charles Stackhouse, 

 No. 1001, 6th Avenue, Alioona, Pa., U.S.A. 



For exchange, about 50 metallic minerals (named) for 25 good 

 microscopical slides of general interest. List sent in return for 

 list of slide objects. — " H.," 5 Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 



Wanted, valentine knife, machine for sections, microscopic 

 specimens, with turntable. Offer G. J. Wilkowski's movable atlas 

 and books, "Brain, Eye, Tongue, and Throat," "Ear and 

 Teeth," "Neck and Trunk."— Oswald Simpson, 7 Fishergate 

 Hill, Preston. 



Eggs to exchange for others not in collection: Indian swift, 

 sparrow, ring dove, turtle dove, river tern, weaver bird, scissor- 

 bill, black-bellied tern, grey partridge, yellow-wattled plover, 

 striated bush-babbler, drongo shrike, purple honey-sucker, 

 red-wattled plover ; American robin, kingbird, bluebird, flicker, 

 phcebe bird, song sparrow, yellow-headed blackbird, and many 

 others, English and foreign. — Geo. Widdas, Woodsley View, 

 Leeds. 



Wanted "Science-Gossip" for 1876, bound or unbound. 

 Exchange good slides. — W. H. Harris, 44 Partridge Road, 

 Cardiff. 



Specimens of Smilacina bifoha and Lloydia serotina, both 

 from Switzerland, for other plants rare to the British Isles. 

 Send lists. — Mr. H. Morland, Cranford, near Hounslow. 



Eggs of sea and shore birds wanted, either in sets or single 

 eggs : must be blown with one side-hole. Many rare duplicates 

 to offer. — T. Dealy, Grey Street, Derby. 



Will send one dozen of Vallisneria young plants for a half- 

 dozen mounted objects. — John Simm, West Cramlington, 

 Northumberland. 



Watt's " Dictionary of Chemistry " wanted in exchange for 

 full-set (seven vols, and two atlases.) of 40th Parallel U.S. 

 Geological exploration. — H. Poole, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. 



For exchange, three varieties of H. aspersa, viz., conoidca, 

 albt-fasclata, and cx-albtda, also other shells. Also many 

 rare British wild plants. Send lists of duplicates and desiderata. 

 C. A. O., Lyndhurst Cottage, Lyndhurst Road, Worthing. 



Dudley limestone and coal measure fossils, good and choice 

 examples, named and localised, offered in exchange for other 

 specimens. Correspondence invited. — F., 106 Finch Road, 

 Handsworth, Birmingham. 



Wanted, Science Gossip for 1871 and 1S72, bound, or in 

 Nos. Other books in exchange. — F.R.G.S.L, 9 Royal Terrace 

 West, Kingstown, co. Dublin. 



Rymer Jones's "Animal Kingdom " (last edition), Quekett 

 "On the Microscope," Burmeister's "Entomology," Lewis's 

 " Sea-Side Studies," Landsborough's " Sea Weeds," &c, offered 

 in exchange for Yarrell's " Fishes," Bate & Westwood's " Crus- 

 tacea," Moggeridge's " Harvesting Ants," and other natural 

 history works.— C. A. Grimes, Dover. 



Exotic Lepidoptcra — Duplicates: Orn. Minos, $ and 2; 

 Papilla protesilaus, autosilaus, Sinon, Dollcaon Turnus, 

 Hector, <j and 2 ; Antlphus, Philoxenus (fine), Polymnestor, 

 d and 9 : Ckaon, Polydorus, Protenor, cf and 2 ; Rlietenar, 

 cf and 2 ; Nox, Polyctos, Perlantlius (fair), Sarpedon, dis- 

 similts, .Kgeus, cf and 2; Xalmoxis, Hesperus, Leonidas 

 (fine), Hippocoon (fair), Policenes, Heb. Glauclppe, C. Menippe, 

 Amaurls damocles (fine), Nlavius (fine), Mlnetra Gambrlstus 

 (fine), Diadc?na anthcdon (fine), Dlrrarcho? Hen. (fine), Cet/w- 

 sla cyane, Limen. procris. Cat. cynosura (fine), Harma 

 thcobene, <y and 9 (fine) ; Cowls, <3 and 2 (fine) ; also many 

 species of Romalaosoma, Heliconia, and others. — J. C. Hudson, 

 Railway Terrace, Cross Lane, Manchester. 



Rock sections of unsurpassed excellence in exchange for 

 interesting rock material — igneous preferred. — H. Hensoldt, 

 7 Machell Road, Nunhead, S-E. 



Wanted, Puccinia buxi, P. straminis, P. apii, P. conii 

 P. angelica, P. athitsa, P. bulbocastani, P. plmplnelltz, P. 

 straminis and .-Ecldtum asperifolii. Must be fresh specimens. 

 Will give other species in exchange. — H. T. Soppett, Saltaire, 

 Yorkshire. 



The rare leaf-fungus, Xenodochus carbonarius, sent to any 

 one interested, on receipt of a stamped envelope, or other fungus 

 in exchange. — W. B. Grove, 269 St. Vincent Street, Bir- 

 mingham. 



West Indian Sand, used for Microscopes, for any six of the 

 following butterflies : Thanass Tages, Steropes Paniscus, 

 Apatura Iris, Papilla Machaon, Collas Hyale, C. Edusa, 

 Plerls Napl, Arge Galathea, T/tecla Prunl, T. \V. album. — 

 George Herbert Skuse, 143 Stepney Green, London E. 



What offers for the shells extracted from foraminiferous 

 sand I — Herbert Skuse, 143 Stepney Green, London, E. 



Exotic Lepidoptera. Duplicates. Will exchange 50 kinds 

 of Indian butterflies and moths, including Atlacus Atlas, 

 cf and 2 ; Kaltlma Inachts, Cyrestls thyodamas, Junonla. 

 ccnone, cf and 9 : Papilla polyctor, P. sarpedon, Hypolemnas 

 mlslpfius, Vanessa asieric, V. charonla, Apatora dlchron, 

 Orutthoptera Pompetus, <£ and 9. and others; for either 

 (i) Seebohm's "Birds," Parts I. and II., new; or (2) Bell's 

 " Quadrupeds and Stalk-eyed Crustacea," new. — Charles Dono- 

 van, jun., Myross Wood, Leap, co. Cork, Ireland. 



Navicula humerosa, De Brebisson. Slides of a pure gather- 

 ing in exchange for other diatomaceae. — W. M. Paterson, 

 Loftus. 



V. antlopa (bred here' from continental eggs) duplicates ; 

 desiderata, C. album, Polychloros machaon, Sibylla, &c. — 

 G. Brabon, 48 Shakespere Road, South Hornsey, N. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The British Moss-Flora," Part VII. By R. Braithwaite, 

 M.D., F.L.S 



" Parrots ii/Captivity," Part I. By W. T. Greene, M.D., &c. 

 London : G. Bell & Sons. 



"The Butterflies of Europe," Part XIV. By H. C. Lang, 

 M.D., &c. London : L. Reeve & Co. 



"Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society," August 18S3. 



" Transactions of the Essex Field Club," vol. iii., Part VII. 



" Land and Water." 



" Midland Naturalist." 



" Journal of Conchology." 



" Natural History Notes." 



"The Practical Naturalist." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Science." 



"American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 



"The Botanical Gazette." 



"Canadian Entomologist." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" The Popular Science News." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to hth ult. from : — 



A. W. S.— Mrs. V— H. W. L. W. B.— W. B. G.-A. L.— 

 H. E. W.— E. H.— O. S.— A. H. B.— H. B.— H. W. S. W.— B. 

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

 — S. H. B.— J. C. T.— T. D. A. C— B. H. B.— W. J. S.— 

 W. W.— W. G.— W. H. H.— H. M.— J. W. W.— E. F. B.— 



B. M. O.— P. S. A.— Dick— J. T.— H. P.— C. H. J.— B. H.— 

 J. S. (Oporto)— J. K. D.-G. A. W.-J. T.— J. W.— R. A. R. B. 

 — E. F. B— W. E. H.-M. N.— H. W. S. W. B.— J. R. E.— 

 F. M. H.— D. M. W.— H. E. W— J. A.-W. F.— C— H U 

 — G. W.— S. C. C— C. A. L.— G. W.— A. L.— F. C. K.— 

 E. C. J.— J. S.— C. S.— F. R. G. S. I.— C. A. G.— W. B. G.— 

 H. S. T.— A. H. W.-R. L.— F. J. G.— W. B.— S. C. C— 

 W. T. L.— W. F.— A. O.— T. Mc.L.— H. C. B— Miss B.— 

 H. M.— H. H.— J. C. H— J. A. W.— W. B.— H. T. S.— E. L. 

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

 — F. A. A.— G. B.— C. D. Jr.— H. S. W.— A. E. B. S.— A. E. G. 

 — W. M. P.— R. A. R. B.— A. D.— G. R.— &c. 



