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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Wanted, a clutch of each of the following: clover, fork- 

 tailed petrel, American billwa, kilden, Bartram's sandpiper, in 

 exchange for emu's eggs. — John Millie, North Queensferry, 

 Fileshire, Scotland. 



Wanted, almost any kinds of Pupae ; offered in exchange, 

 British lepidoptera. — W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, 

 Bristol. 



Somr beautiful varieties of Helix nemoralis, H. kortensis, 

 H. arbustorum, H. nemoralis var. major, H. lapicida, H . pi- 

 sana, H. virgata, H . nspersa, H . hispida, H . caperata, &c. 

 What offers in marine shells ? — A. J. R. Sclater, 23 Bank Street, 

 Teignmouth, Devon. 



Four dozen very large Sagartia troglodytes from Devon 

 coast. What offers for the same? — A. J. R. Sclater, 23 Bank 

 Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Wanted, domed foreign nests and British land and fresh- 

 water shells ; natural history books, a revised manuscript list 

 of Wakefield shells, or other land and freshwater shells offered. 

 — George Roberts, Loftham. 



Ass. Grayana and many foreign shells for North British or 

 foreign species. Lists of duplicates exchanged. — W. E. B., 

 9 Titchfield Terrace, Regent's Park. 



For scales of Belone and Labrus send address to D. Sinel, 

 David Place, Jersey. 



Wanted, chalk fossils ; will give specimens from other 

 formations in exchange. — Edmund T\e, 2, The Drapery, 

 Northampton. 



L. C, 5, 59, 181, 216, 270, 273. 338, 350, 351, 394, 894, 1051, 

 1059c, 1060, 1067, 1068, 1128, 1289, 1547, 1607, 1648, 1658, and 

 many others. — G. H. Bryan, Thornlea, Cambridge. 



Impressions from ancient seals offered in exchange for others, 

 or for anything of antiquarian interest. — W. T., 8 Albert Road, 

 Southsea. 



Twelve to sixteen dozen microscopical slides. Wanted, 

 pocket or portal Ie microscope or tourist photographic camera 

 and apparatus, or offers in cash for twelve dozen at least. — 

 John Alex. Ollard, F.R.M.S., Ye Hermitage, Forty Hill, 

 Enfield, Middlesex. 



Twelve dozen micro slides for exchange. Wanted, works 

 by Darwin, or standard works on microscopy, natural history, 

 or conchology. Slides at is. each : books at published price. — 

 John Alex. Ollard, F.R.M.S., Ye Hermitage, Forty Hill, 

 Enfield, Middlesex. 



A stag beetle for specimens of equisetum or micro slides of 

 same. — J. D. Bessell, Fremantle Square, Bristol. 



For exchange, Planorbis corneas, Nitidus con tortus, L. 

 aTtricxlaria, stngnalis, B. Lracllii, and forty species of British 

 and foreign shells. Wanted, Balia perversa, Carychium, 

 Acme, Vertigo, and A. lacustris. — A. Jenkins, 36 Amersham 

 Vale, New Cross, London, S E. 



Wanted, good slides of Tingis hystricellus, head of hunting 

 spider ; good exchange in slides or micro material. — G. Ward, 

 Wallwood Nursery, Leytonstone. 



Wanted, English and foreign war medals, and soldiers' or 

 sailors' decorations ; offer in exchange, fossils, natural curiosi- 

 ties, or antiquities. — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, Bate and Westwood s " Crustacea," Hinck's 

 "Zoophytes," Shuckard's " Bees," and other works on natural 

 history, in exchange for Berkley's " Cryptosamic Botany," 

 " Quekett on the Microscope," Burmeister's " Entomology." 

 Sciknck-Gossip, vols, i.-iv., &c. — C. A. Grimes. Dover. 



Several duplicate slides fur exchange of the following : 

 Comphonema germinatum, Na-.ncula evalis, oolitic limestone 

 sections — nearly all of the last-named are mounted on square 

 slips. — F. R. Tennant, Port Hill, Stoke-on-Trent. 



British Lepidoptera — duplicates: Napi, Cardamines, 

 Rhamni, Edusa, Paphia, Euphrosyne, Egeria, Uriicac, Gala- 

 thea, 'Pamphilus, Phlceas, Aegon, Alexis, Corydon, Alveolus, 

 Sylvanus ; also many species of moths. Desiderata, other 

 Lepidoptera, British or foreign, or offers. — A. H. Shepherd, 

 4 Cathcart Street, Kentish Town. London. 



The following British Crustaceans, well set and preserved, 

 offered in exchange for others or for British Echinoderms: 

 Carcinas mtenas, Hyas coarctatus, Polybius Henslowii, Pa- 

 gurus Bernkardus, Portunus £nber, Ualathea squamifera. 

 Cancer pagur us, and others. — G. Sherriff Tye, 65 Villa Road, 

 Handsworth, near Birmingham. 



Wanted, Bell's sialk-eyed, Spence Bates' sessile-eyed Crus- 

 tacea, and Baird's Entomostraca. A valuable assortment of 

 Crustacea, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Fishes. Rock specimens 

 or embryological microscopic preparations offered in exchange. 

 — Edward Lovett, 43 Clyde Road, Addiscombe, Croydon. 



Wanted, living specimens of Murex purpurea, Physalia 

 pelagica, and Aurelia aurita (German or Baltic bea) for ex- 

 change. — A. Heath, 114 Ebury Street, London. 



Offered, L. C, 7th ed., 11, 122, 192. iood, 219, 246, 430/% 

 508, 542, 752 b, 779, 860, 1033, 1189, 1217, 1403. Lists exchanged. 

 — Rev. W. R. Linton, 180 Upper Street, Islington, London. 



Wood's " Bible Animals," full bound : " Student's Elements 

 of Geology ;" " Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood," Hugh 

 Miller; "Insect Hunter's Companion ;" Jesse's "Gleaning-," 

 2 vols., full calf; " Glaucus, or Wonders of the Shore," Cnarles 

 Kingsley ; "Journal of a Naturalist;" all in good condition. 

 Wanted to exchange for good micro slides of British and foreign 

 mosses, or offers. — J. R. Murdoch, 24 Bleaheim Place, Leeds. 



Wanted, lichens and ants, British, localised .—Frederic 

 Bower, 6 Dryden Street, C.-on-M., Manchester. 



Various old historical, religious, and foreign books and 

 pamphlets, in exchange for books on natural history. Lists 

 sent on application. — F. H. Parrott, Walton House, Aylesbury, 

 Bucks. 



Will any conchologist kindly send me examples of Helix 

 asfiersa, var. albo-fasciata, in exchange for other varieties or 

 British or foreign land and freshwater shells? — G. Sherriff Tye, 

 65 Villa Road, Handsworth, near Birmingham. 



For sl : de of Ceratoneis arcus (Diatomaceae), send any good 

 mount, excepting spicules and sections to A. W. Griffin, Saville 

 Row, Bath. 



Fv'pm. Furcula, Dromedarius, Hamula, Luna, Machaon, 

 Vinula Jacobae, Carpidi. Desiderata. Other pupae. — W. Finch, 

 158 Arkwright Street, Nottingham. 



In exchange for i ounce of diatomaceous earth, I will send 

 3 or more (according to rarity) slides of the same when cleaned. 

 — E. B. L. Brayley, 13 Burlington Road, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, vol. i. of "Northern Microscopist " bound or in 

 numbers. Will exchange in slides. — G. Wilks, 27 Wynford 

 Street, Weaste, Manchester. 



Wanted, Geikie's " Great Ice-Age," 2nd edition, Geikie's 

 " Prehistoric Europe," j88i, and Croll's " Climate and Time." 

 Micro-slides, books, or cash in exchange. — A. Alletsee, 7 Glen- 

 dale, Clifton, Bristol. 



For exchange, Negretti and Zambra's microscopist's air- 

 pump, to take 3 slides. Cost £1 is., and nearly new. What 

 offers? Mounted slides, natural history specimens, fossils, &c, 

 preferred. — H. E., 9 Eliot Bank, Forest Hill, London, S.E. 



Offered, L. C., 7th ed., 75, 107, 133, 150, 196, 234, 253, 270, 

 333. 334. 3 6 7*. 5'8, 733, 82X, 906, 1040, 1135, 1141, 1292, 1304, 

 1319, 1327, 1416, 1422, 1449, 1478, 1596, and many others. — 

 A. Waller, 17 Low Ousegate, York. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip for the year 1870 to 75 inclusive, 

 in parts, or bound in the publisher's case preferred. Can ex- 

 change volume for the years 1867 and 1868, or other books.— 

 W. T. Cooper, 16 Earl's Court Road, Kensington, W. 



For Exchange. — Sand from the bottom of the Mediterranean 

 Sea containing microscopic shells. The shells are of no use to 

 Conchologists, but form a splendid object for the microscope. 

 ••—Address, E. C. Stedman, 115 Stepnev Green, London, E. 



Tohacco-leaf from different parts of the world, well mounted 

 in Balsam, will exchange for other objects of interest. — Address, 

 E. C- Stedman, 115 Stepney Green, London, E. 



BOOKS. ETC.. RECEIVED. 



" Smithsonian Report for 1881." Washington: Government 

 Priming Office. 



" The Organs of Speech," By G. H. von Meyer. London : 

 Kegan Paul & Co. 



" Energy in Nature." By W. Lant Carpenter, B.Sc, &c. 

 London : Cassell & Co. 



" Perennial Plants." (Parts.) 



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



" Journal of Conchology." 



" Land and Water." 



"The Science Monthly." 



" Midland Naturalist." 



"Practical Naturalist." 



"The Inventor's Record." 



"The Mefiical Student." (New York.) 



" Natural History Notes." 



" Science." 



'* American Naturalist." 



" Canadian Naturalist." 



"American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 



" Popular Science News." 



" Good Health." 



"The Botanical Gazette." 



" Revue d-: Botanique." 



" La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



" Ciel et Terre." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from:— 

 T. H— W. P. B.— W. K. M.— A. A. F. J. D. H.— A. H. B.— 



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

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

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

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

 B. H.-H. S.— H. A. F.-A. H. W.— W. B.— J. S.— C. D.— 



G. R .— W. L. W.— Dr. P. Q.-J. C W.— J. G.— J. M.— H. W. 

 —Dr. A. C. S— E. T. S.-E. T.— H. W. K.— W. T. H.— 

 T. A. O.— J. B. B.-G. W.— A. A— W. H. M.— J. F. R.— 

 J. E. A.— H. E.-C. R — H. C. W.— F. S.— J. F. T— A H.S. 

 — G. S. T.— E. L.— E. B. L. B.— L. S. G.— W. H. S.— W. T. C. 

 — G. M.— C. A. G.-A. W. G.— C. H. W.-A. W.-W. F.— 

 A. H.-F. B.— A. M. P.— W. K. L.— J. R. M.— F. H. P.— 



D. R.— S. L— L. M.-J. W.— E. F. B.— J. L. S.-H. G. S.— 



E. E. T.— H. M.— E. T. D— B. F.— H H. G.— B. H., &c. 



