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HA R D WICKE ' S S CIENCE- G OS SIP. 



What offers in exchange for " Illustrations of the Linnean 

 Order of Insects," by W. Wood, F.R.S., published in 1S10 in 

 2 vols., with coloured plates? Offers wanted also for "The 

 Amateur Photographer" for 1885 and 18S6. — C. Gregory, c/o 

 Mrs. Sharp, 4 Bateman Terrace, West Kensington, W. 



" Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural History Spe- 

 cimens," by J. G. Taylor, offered in exchange for tropical 

 marine shells. — W. Jones, jun., 27 Mayton Street, Holloway, N. 

 I should like to correspond with some one collecting skulls 

 of animals or birds. — Edmund Tye, 21 Gold Street, Northamp- 

 ton. 



What offers in curiosities for a good breeding-cage ? Good 

 as new. — Edmund Tye, 21 Gold Street, Northampton. 



Curtis's " Botanical Magazine," first 20 vols., 825 coloured 

 plates, in perfect condition. Will exchange for later vols, of 

 same work or good microscope ; or what offers? — J. Fingland, 

 Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. 



Foraminifera. — Good mounts of pure Globigerina bulloides 

 for exchange. — W. Stott, Lostock, Bolton. 



"Zoologist," vols, i.-xii., 1843-1854, complete, bound; 

 what offer for the set? Wanted, the vol. for 1886, for York 

 School Natural History Society. — B. B. Le Tall, 20 Bootham, 

 York. 



Wanted, Bell's "British Quadrupeds" and "Reptiles," 

 latest editions in preference. Unaccepted offers not answered. 

 — F. H. Parrott, 35 Doughty Street, London, W.C. 



Scotch graptolites offered in exchange for good foreign 

 shells. Specially wanted, Philippine land shells and volutes. — 

 Miss F. M. Kele, Fairlight, Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



Fossils, minerals and rock specimens, offered in exchange 

 for books on natural history, or any other subject. — M., Culver 

 Lodge, Acton Vale, London, W. 



Exchange, side-blown eggs : eider duck, gannet, R. skua, 

 sandwich-tern, ptarmigan, common tern, guillemot and kitti- 

 wake. Wanted : buzzards', sparrow-hawks', kites', owls', 

 harriers', shrikes' and cuckoo's. — William Fetch, Heley, Shef- 

 field. 



The Droseras, Andromeda, Melicerta, Floscules, Vaginicola, 

 Peridinium, Volvox, Pondorina, Draparnaldia, Aphanothece, 

 diatomaceous material. Wanted, micro slides and apparatus, 

 small slide cabinet, natural history books. — C. L. Lord, 34 

 Burlington Crescent, Goole. 



Wanted, mineral specimens. Exchange Cassell's " Popular 

 Educator," 50s. edition, good condition. Send names. — H. 

 Ebbage, 165 Hagley Road, Birmingham. 



Will exchange for fossils, a book on the collecting, preparing 

 and mounting of diatoms. — T. Sanderson, Wells Road, Malvern 

 Wells. 



Alpine mosses in exchange for those from chalk, particularly 

 Systegium, Selizeriae and rarer Phasci and Gottia. — W. B. 

 Waterfall, Redland Green, Bristol. 



A number of slides of diatoms for exchange. E.g. Toxonidea, 

 Nitzscliia Petitiana, Barbadoes, Newcastle Estate, Oran, 

 Eseld, " Challenger " dredgings, and many others. Good 

 diatoms preferred. Exchange lists with Rev. A. C. Smith, 

 3 Park Crescent, Brighton. 



A student who is working the flora of the River Lea valley, 

 would like to correspond with botanists residing in the Herts or 

 Beds portions of the above river. — H. S. C, 71 Aden Grove, 

 Stoke Newington, N. 



Micro lamp. New, in good working order. What offers? — 

 L. Cooper, 6 Park Drive, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Ganot's "Physics"; Wurtz's "Atomic Theory" (Inter- 

 national Scientific Series) ; " Popular Scientific Amusements " 

 (Ward, Lock & Co., profusely illustrated) ; Tyndall's "Forms 

 of Water." All quite new, and latest editions. What offers? 

 Micro apparatus required. — A. Earland, 3 Eton Grove, Dacre 

 Park, Lee, S.E. 



Wanted, foraminiferous material in small quantities, recent 

 and fossil, from all countries. Must be localised. Will ex- 

 change same, or mourned slides. — A. Earland, 3 Eton Grove, 

 Dacre Park, Lee, S.E. 



Wanted, a moderately large shell cabinet. Micro material 

 in exchange. — T. M. Harvard, Layland, Lancashire. 



Wanted, unmounted parasites, will give good exchange in 

 slides. Also foreign correspondents to exchange micro material 

 and slides. — Fred Lee Carter, 25 Lansdowne Terrace, Gosforth, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, unmounted specimens of parasites of mammalia, 

 also fleas ; good exchange offered. — W. A. Hyslop, 22 Palmer- 

 ston Place, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, reagents and accessories for histology. Have two 

 years of "Knowledge". — Thomas D. Sellers, 1 The Avenue, 

 Preston. 



Land and freshwater shells in exchange for others or marine 

 shells. — W. Gyngell, Wellington, Somerset. 



Wanted Wilson's " Hygiene and Sanitary Science." Also 

 a good chemical balance and apparatus for quantitative analysis. 

 T. W. Lockwood, Lobley Street, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire. 



Good value in exchange offered for Terebratula australis, 

 Terebratula rubicutida, Atrypa psittacea, Spiri/er restrains, 

 Mya arenaria. — C. F. Cross, Wtrneth Hall Road, Oldham. 



I prepare rocks and other hard substances for the microscope, 

 and will give ample exchange for good material. — C. F. Cross, 

 Werneth Hall Road, Oldham. 



Wanted, a double or treble nose piece for microscope, in 

 exchange for Collins's Bockett Lamp for microscope in maho 

 gany case. — H. W. Parritt, 103 Camden Street, London, N.W. 

 Splendid specimens of American helices offered for foreign 

 marine shells.— J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope Road, Sunderland. 



Wanted, Thome's "Structural and Physiological Botany " 

 (Longman's). — Grierson, 74 Market Place, Sheffield. 



Wanted, Huxley & Martin's "Practical Elementary Bio- 

 logy," latest edition. Will give "Practical Chemistry by 

 Clowes," also four numbers of Science-Gossip for Sept.- 

 Dec. 1885. — E. Bromley, Victoria Terrace, Lightclifle, Halifax. 

 For exchange, slides of upper and lower jaw of long-eared 

 bat, with teeth in situ, for polariscope ; ox parasite, &c. — 

 J. Stroud Williams, Livingstone Villa, Iffley Road, Oxford. 



The two first numbers of Saville Kent's " Infusoria," for 

 exchange. Offers.— J. Stroud Williams, Livingstone Villa, 

 Iffley Road, Oxford. 



Purchase or exchange, a small brass mounted microscope 

 with French triplet, equal nearly to a |-inch English objective, 

 bull's-eye condenser attached, revolving diaphragm, one: deep 

 and shallow eye-piece, on solid bronze stand, with ball and 

 socket adjustment, the whole in case complete, almost new, 

 together with a quantity of thin glass circles various sizes, and 

 two dozen glass slides. Unaccepted offers not answered. — 

 H. J. T., The Rectory, Musbury, Axminster, Devon. 



Morris's " British Birds " ; six vols, with 365 coloured plates. 

 Morris's "British Birds' Nests and Eggs"; three vols, with 

 223 coloured plates. "Gallery of British Artists," six vols. 

 Letts's "Atlas," four vols. All as new. What offers in micro- 

 scope, micro apparatus, &c. ? Wanted, Science-Gossip com- 

 plete, from 1S65-86. — W. Tunstall, Wood Vale Mills, Brighouse. 

 Wanted, British birds' eggs blown with single hole. Will 

 give in' exchange North American birds' skins and squirrels. 

 Also British birds' skins. — T. Mottershaw, n Manchester 

 Street, Nottingham. 



Six sections of each of the following, well cut and stained, 

 for good histological slides or land and freshwater shells, &c. : 

 Phoenix dactyhfera, Arecha catechu, Cyperus alterni/olius, 

 Aspidistra lurida. — James C. Blackshaw, 4 Ranelagh Road, 

 Wolverhampton. 



First class clutches, with data, of American bittern, killdeer 

 plover, Bartram's sandpiper, &c, for other rare eggs not in my 

 collection. Please send lists to W. Wells-Bladen, Stone, 

 Staffordshire. 



Wanted, a copy of Hinck's "Polyzoa." — 63 Legh Street, 

 Warrington. 



Duplicates, Edusa, Philodice, Selene, W. album, Pruni, 

 Crategi, Cassiope, Davus, Antiopa, Liza, QSnone, Orythya, 

 Leucothea, Volina, Salmacis, Lassinassa, Inachis, Thyodamus, 

 Eucharis, Plexippus, Chrysippus, Archippus, Core, Limnaceae. 

 Unset desiderata. Other exotic butterflies. W. H. Scott, 

 14 Prospect Hill, Leicester. 



THE'Lord's Prayer written on glass by Dr. Farrants President 

 of the R. M. S. L., in the 400,000th of a square inch, equal to 

 writing the whole Bible and Testament twenty-two times in the 

 space of one square inch. What offers? — M. D., 49 Handfield 

 Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. 



Wanted, vols, of "Northern Microscopist," unbound pre- 

 ferred, to complete set, lowest offers, etc. — V. A. Latham, 

 F.M.S., 70 Portsmouth Street, Oxford Road, Manchester. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Through the Fields with Linnaeus," by Mrs. Florence 

 Caddy, 2 vols. (London; Longman). — "British Cage Birds," 

 by R. L. Wallace (London: L. Upcott Gill).— " Fancy 

 Pigeons," by J. C. Lyell (London: L. Upcott Gill).— "Cata- 

 logue of Scientific and Technical Books" (London : G. Philip 

 & Son." — "The Medical Annual," 1887.— "The Amateur 

 Photographer." — "The Camera."— " The Garner."— " The 

 Scientific Enquirer."—" The Naturalist."—" The Botanical 

 Gazette."—" Journal of the New York Microscopical Society." 

 — " Belgravia." — "The Gentleman's Magazine."— " American 

 Monthly Microscopical Journal."— " The Essex Naturalist."— 

 The "Wesley Naturalist."— "Trans. Herfordshire Nat. Hist. 

 Soc." — "Trans. Leeds Geological Association." — "The Mid- 

 land Naturalist."— " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." — 

 "The American Naturalist."— " Journal of Microscopy." 



Communications received up to the 13TH inst. from : 

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 _ w ' T.' N.— E. T.-G. D. M.— G. M.-M. C L.— W. J., jun. 

 -C G.-J. C P.-G. H.-C R.-T. H.-B. B. W.-J. W. G- 

 — C P — T C— F. H. P.— C. R.— T. W.— Rev. A. C. S.— 

 W B W— T W.-F. R.B.— C L. L.— E. B.— T. S.-H.S.C. 

 -G H. B.-L. C-A. E.-T. M. H.-W. P.-W. I.-H. D. S. 

 — D. B— H. E.-C. J. W.-T. D. A. C.-F. L. C.-W. L.- 

 T W W.-M C. M.— W. A. H.— T. D. S.— W. G.-T. W. L. 

 — C F C — H W. P.— J. T. T. R.— A. B. C— F. W. E.— 

 H i. T -W. H. L.-T. M.-J. A.-T. M.-J. C B.-W. H. S. 

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 t h — W P.— W. W.— W. J. T.— J. S., jun.— W. E.— A. G. S. 

 _F \v— V. A. L.— Q. S. F. E.— J. R.-L. L. R.— H. G.— 

 H. G -W. H. B.-J. A. J-E. J. T.-J.H.-&C, &c. 



