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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



EXCHANGES. 



The three first vols, of Science-Gossip, bound, and in good 

 condition; micro slides wanted, or offers. — H. Moullow, 34 

 Lorrimore Road, Walworth, S.E. 



Wanted, a small collection of the land and freshwater shells 

 of Yorkshire, with varieties. Science-Gossip, unbound, 

 natural history books, or cash offered. — George Robert-, 

 Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



For a first-class, silver-plated banjo, machine head, almost 

 new, cost three guineas, what offers ? Botanical specimens and 

 books preferred. — J. Guardia, 19 Turret Grove, Clapham, S.W. 



Wanted, old coins (English); exchange books, &c. — J. S. 

 Lyddon. 2 Oakland Villas, Redland. 



Wanted, in exchange for well-mounted micro objects or 

 material, good, named micro fossils (not for section cutting), 

 zoophytes, British or foreign, algse, eggs of lepidoptera, or 

 foreign coleoptera in quantity preferred. List of objects sent 

 if required. — J. M., 59 Hind Street, Poplar, London, E. 



Microscope wanted ; will exchange Busson's harmoniflute, 

 ^-octave keyboard and stop, in perfect order (cost £4 4s.). — 

 H. Ebbage, 34 Queen Square, Wolverhampton. 



Wanted, a small naturalist's dredge. Cash, specimens, or 

 micro slides in exchange. — W. H. Shrubsole, Sheerness-on- 

 Sea. 



Eggs. Wanted a clutch of each of the following species : 

 tawny owl, stonechat, goldcrest, nuthatch, all the pipits, 

 woodlark, woodpeckers, kingfisher, sandpipers, geese, ducks, 

 gulls, &c. I can offer clutches of killden plover, American 

 billwa, Bartram's sandpiper, fork-tailed petrel, and other good 

 eggS.-W. Wells Bladen, Stone, Staff. 



Wanted, Rye's " British Beetles " or Rimmer's " Land and 

 Fresh-water Shells " in exchange for collection of British 

 grasses, seventy species, correctly named, collected 1883. — 

 F. Tufnail, Amity Street, Reading. 



Thirty-two species of British lichens, correctly named and 

 localised, to exchange for shells either recent or fossil. — 

 A. Loydell, 10 Aulay Street, Ossery Road, S.E. 



Wanted, Paludina vivipara, P. contecta, and Dreissena 

 polymorpha, in exchange for other British shells or well-rooted 

 plants of exotic ferns, greenhouse blooming plants (not bedding), 

 and the cactus tribe. — M. A. O., 82 Abbey Street, Faversham, 

 Kent. 



Wanted, four large live shells of the Globose janthina ; must 

 be perfect, beautifully coloured, and localised specimens, and 

 all from the same locality. — W. Palmer, Seywell, Blakesley, 

 near Towcester, Northamptonshire. 



I have several duplicate microscope slides, chiefly geological, 

 to exchange for others. Correspondence invited. — F. R. T., 

 Port Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 



For exchange, one of Stafford Smith's permanent postage- 

 stamp albums (15s.), containing about 850 foreign stamps, many 

 very rare ; wanted in exchange, scientific books, fossils, or 

 minerals. Correspondence invited. — F. R. T., Port Hill, Stoke- 

 on-Trent, Staffordshire. 



I have Turkish and Indian sand, full of small shells, which 

 would be splendid objects for the microscope. All those who 

 have a microscope should not fail to get some. — Herbert George, 

 143 Stepney Green, London, E. 



WELL-mounted slides of botanical sections, double stained, 

 in exchange for insect or anatomical. — R. Gill, 7 High Street, 

 Chorley, Lancashire. 



Lepidoptera. — Duplicates : L. corydon, S. populi, S. Lilicr, 

 Y. 7-ubcrata, B.perla, M. alveriella, and numerous others. 

 Desiderata : various. — George Balding, Ruby Street, Wisbech. 



Geikie's " Outlines of Field Geology," for Newman's " Insect 

 Hunters." — T. W. Brevvis, Boro' College School, Rotherham. 



Nectary of Parnassia paluslris (mounted in balsam), also 

 a few duplicate micro slides. — John R. Marten, Cottage Hos- 

 pital, Red Hill, Surrey. 



Thlaspi alpestre, Draba incana, Orobanche rubra, and other 

 rare plants for others, especially Carices and Potamogetons. — 

 John Percival, is Low Ousegate, York. 



Duplicates: Artemis, Galathea, Hypecanthus, Tithomis 

 pamphilus, Megaera, Sylvanus linea, Tages, Alveolus, Jacobse, 

 FilipendulEe, Cardamines, Alexis, Phleas, Cardui, Atalanta. 

 Desiderata : any other butterflies, British or foreign. — W. H. 

 Scott, Eastwood Villas, Humberstone Road, Leicester. 



Offered, L.C., 7th ed., 122, 146, 204, 226, 399, 426, 430 a b, 

 433. 542. 7°4. 755.*. 777. 7 82 . 7 8 °. 831, 1188, 1193 a b, 1195 b, 

 1J03, 1357, &c, in exchange for other rare plants. — A. E. 

 Lomax, 56 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool. 



Wanted, a Greek Lexicon, also Gatty's "Seaweeds;" a 

 liberal exchange in microscopic slides or herbarium examples of 

 cryptogamic plants offered in exchange. — Lichen, 15 Horton 

 Lane, Bradford. 



Skin (with scales) of the sand launce {Ammodytes lancea, 

 sent to any one who is interested in fish scales. Send address 

 to J. Sinel, David Place, St. Helier's, Jersey. 



L. C, 7th ed., Nos. 140, 317, 642, 650, 747, 1125, 1321, 1420, 

 1500, 1548, in exchange for other plants. — E. Langdon, 4 Castle 

 Down, Hastings. 



Foreign ferns and shells, and British ferns, mosses, and 

 shell-, for other foreign ferns and shells — T. Rogers, 27 Oldham 

 Road, Manchester. 



For slide of Aulacodiscus Kittoni (Diatomacea;) send any 

 good mount to A. W. Griffin, Saville Row, Bath. 



Specimens of Trochus zizyphinus, lineatus, major, cinereus, 

 umbiticatus, and striatus ; also Nassa reticulata and incras- 

 sata, and Murex erinaceus and corallinus, in spirit, in ex- 

 change for good specimens of any of the following sponges : — 

 Pachymastia Johnstonia, Lencosolenia botryoides, Grant'ia 

 compressa, Cliona celata (in situ), Tethia lyncurittm, or offer. 

 — J. Tempere, Storrington, Sussex. 



Mitchell's "Portable Encyclopaedia," with plates; Bald- 

 win's "African Hunting," pub. 21J. ; Cassell's "Educator;" 

 Cassell's "Birds;" "Ancient Atlas;" Dibden's "Lessons in 

 Painting Plates," and sixty others, in exchange for anything of 

 antiquarian interest. — Tunley, Albert Road, Southsea. 



L.C., 130 a, 162 b, 218, 315, 406, 539, 1125, 1230, 1319, 1665, 

 and several roses and Hieracia. Lists exchanged. — J. A. 

 Wheldon, Mowbray House, Northallerton. 



Science-Gossip, first six volumes, 1865-1870, bound in paper 

 boards, clean, and in first-rate condition. What offers in micro 

 apparatus or cash ? — George Ward, Wallwood Nursery, Leyton- 

 stone. 



Wanted, Petricola lithopkaga, Venerupis frits, Mya are- 

 naria, Sp/ttznia Binghami, Nea-ra cuspidata, Solecurtis coarc- 

 tatus, Mactria helvacea, Astarte triangularis, Solecurtis can- 

 didus, Venus chione, Isocordia cor, Area tetragona, Avicula 

 tarentiua, Liina hians, in exchange for fine shells of Astarte 

 sulcata, Dentalium, D. entails, Venus ovata, Mangelia gra- 

 cilis, Trochus majus, T. exigens, Tapes decussata, Cardium 

 papillosum, Calyptrwa Sinensis, Mangelia attenuata, M. pur- 

 purea, M. ru/a, Lamillaria pcrspicuus, Murex corallinus, 

 F.77iarginula rosea, Niicula nitida, A", radiata, Trochus 

 granulatus, Trochus zizyphinus, &c. — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 Museum, 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



For foramini erous sand, send stamped and directed envelope, 

 with small exchange (micro mateiial or insects) to — F. A. A. 

 Skuse, Stepney Green, London, E. 



Offered, many various forms of Uredines, for Discomycetes 

 and other fungi. — H. T. Soppitt, Saltaire, Yorkshire. 



British land and freshwater shells found within a radius of 

 two miles around Brentford. Land shells, Succinea putris, 

 S. elegans ; Vitrina pcllucida ; Zonites cellarius, Z. nitidulus 

 (small specimen), Z. purus, Z. crystallines; Helix aspersa, 

 H. nemoralis, H . hybrida, H . hortensis (one minor), H . arbus- 

 torum (one specimen not full grown), H . Cantiana, H. rujes- 

 cens, H ' . hispuia, H. rotundata, H . pidchella ; Clausilia rugosa 

 Tua lubrica, Carychium minimum. — Mrs. Skilton, Brentford. 



BOOKS, ETC.. RECEIVED. 



" Nature near London." By R. Jeffreys. London: Chatto 

 & Windus. 



"The Evolutionist at Large." By Grant Allen. London: 

 Chatto & Windus. 



" The Poets' Birds." By Phil Robinson. London: Chatto 

 & Windus. 



"A Handy Guide to Llandudno." By John Price, M. A. 

 London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 



" The Age of the Newest Gneissic Rocks of the Northern 

 Highlands." By Dr. C. Callaway. 



" Easy Lessons in Botany." By Edward Step. London: 

 T. Fisher Unwin. 



" Some Materials for a Flora of Wrotham and its Ne'ghbour- 

 hood." By the Rev. J. W. Ewing. 



" Land and Water." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Journal of Conchology." 



" Natural History Notes." 



"The Practical Naturalist." 



"Young Naturalist." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Science." 



"American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 



" The Botanical Gazette." 



" The Popular Science News." 



"Canadian Entomologist." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" Bulletin de la Socie'te Beige de Microscopic" 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from:— 

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

 -C. F.-T. W. M.— R. G— W. W. B.-J. P.— F. R. S. 

 —J. T. P.— W. P.— F. T— W. T. S.— M. A. A.— J. H. R.— 

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



E. T. D. — F. A. A. S.— W. M. P.-G. B.-J. T.— A. H. W. 

 — E. L. B.— E. W. E— J. S.— A. J. R. S— W. W.— J. A.— 



F. T. M.— W. A. P.-H. S.-W. J.-C. A. L— W. L — 

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

 — F. C. M— J. A. W.-G. W.— W. H. T.— \V. O.— J. T.— 

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

 J. F. R.-E. D. M.— J. S.— A. O.— W. D. R.-J. P. B. 

 -A. W. G.— H. L.— H. T. S— E. H. 



