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HARD WICKE ' 5 S CIENCE- G OS SIP. 



S. rivicola, P. amnicum, P. fontina 'e, vars. of Byth. 



ientaculata, PL nitidus, PI. nautileus v. crista, Zon. glaber, 



Zon. purus v. margaritacea, Helix sericea, CI. laminata, Cy. 



•elegans, and many others, for shells not in collection. — J. A. H., 



' Fern Cottage, Baildon Road, Shipley. 



Dragon flies wanted from all parts of the world for figuring. 

 Lepidoptera given in exchange. — W. Harcourt Bath, Lady- 

 wood, Birmingham. 



r ok micro slides of Diatoms, Foraminifera, Polycistina, &c, 

 or good botanical subjects, will exchange equal number lantern 

 slides 3i X 3i of the Diatoms, Heliopelta, Coscinodiscus, 

 Arachnoidiscus, Orthosira, &c. Also of Polycistina, Foramini- 

 fera, botanical, &c, or prints of the same. — Stewart, 2 Gilmore 

 Terrace, Edinburgh. 



Will exchange a copy of Quekett's "Practical Treatise on 

 the Use of the Microscope." Also vol. i. of " Science Monthly," 

 for anything useful in biology, chemistry, or mineralogy. 

 Offers to — Jas. Wm. Horton, Brayford Wharf, Lincoln. 



Twenty-four sections for the microscope, with Latin and 

 English names, ready for mounting. Exchange for two good 

 mounted slides. — F. Dee, 53 Malham Road, Forest Hill. 



Maltese land and sea shells for others from other places. — 

 Jos. S. Galizia, 64 Piazza Celsi, Malta. 



First eight vols. "Horticultural Society's Transactions," 

 •with very beautifully hand-coloured plates. Also six vols. 

 " Floricultural Cabinet," also with hand-coloured plates. 

 Gregg and Lettsom's "Mineralogy"; Richardson's" Geology, " 

 for exchange for microscopic apparatus or slides. — S. Harrison, 

 Dalmain Road, Forest Hill, S.E. 



Marked eggs of black grouse, goldcrest, wood wrens, night- 

 ingale, grasshopper warblers, hawks, owls, common bunting, 

 bullfinch, swifts, tits, &c. — J. Ellison, Steeton, Leeds. 



Wanted, all kinds of insects (butterflies and moths excepted) 

 either alive, or preserved as soon as killed, in weak spirit, and 

 glycerine. Names required if obtainable, in exchange for 

 mounted microscopic objects, photo-micrographs, or micro- 

 fungi (unmounted). W. H. Pratt, 49 Dryden Street, Notting- 

 ham. 



Six selenite designs for the lantern polariscope, exchange 

 microscopic slides, or anything useful. Wilsher, 3 Broadway, 

 Catford. 



Cochlecopa tridens var. crystallina, offered for L. invohita, 

 or its vars.; H. obsoluta ; A. Linenta, or its var.; Vertigos, 

 any var. ; U. vtargaritifer, or its var. — F. R. Stephenson, 

 133 Pellon Lane, Halifax. 



Wanted, Actcea spicata, Cicuta virosa, &c, in exchange 

 for Trifolmm Bocconi, Euphorbia stricta, &c. — W. A. Clarke, 

 The Grove, Chippenham, Wilts. 



Bred specimens of American lepidoptera, Samia cecropia, 

 &c, offered in exchange for other exotic specimens. Must be 

 perfect in setting and condition as mine are. — Mark L. Sykes, 

 Winton, N. Manchester. 



Science-Gossip, posted week after date, in exchange for 

 some other similar periodical — each to be returned later to 

 owner. — J. H. K., 18 Church Street, Commercial Street, E. 



Wanted, skin of rock pigeon, wryneck, marsh and cole tit, 

 wheatear, woodlark, and storm petrel. Offered, books, &c. — 

 J. H. K., 18 Church Street, Commercial Street, E. 



British mosses, over one hundred named specimens to ex- 

 change for micro -slides, apparatus, .or books. — G. A. Barker, 

 1 Northwold Road, Clapton, E. 



Binocular by Pillisher, with eyepiece, polariscope and 

 other accessories, with or without 15 inch objectives, part ex- 

 change as — micro-goniometer, rock sections, minerals, Cole's 

 "Studies," Bischof's "Chemical Geology."— H. Lowe, Holly 

 Bank, Heaton Chapel. 



What offers for " Ritual of the Altar," by Rev. Orby Shipley, 

 published £2 2s. (quite new)? "Greek-English Lexicon," by 

 Liddell and Scott, 5th ed. Wanted, polariscope. — W. H., 

 Newark House. Langney Road, Eastbourne. 



Wanted, Miller's "Treatise on Crystallography," and 

 "Systematic Botany," by Decaisere and Le Maout (Messrs. 

 Hooker's translation). — F. C. King, 82 Fishergate, Preston, 

 Lancashire. 



For exchange, " Outlines of the Geology of England and 

 Wales," by Phillips and Conybeare. Coloured map and coloured 

 and plain sections. Vol. i., pp. 470, 1882. Figuier's "Reptiles 

 and Birds," 307 fine illustrations, new, 8vo., 624 pp. " Rock 

 Sculptures on Rombald's Moor," with lithographs, pamphlet, 

 rare. Wanted, Brown's "Illustrations of British Land and 

 Freshwater Shells," or " Continental Anodons and Unios," or 

 offers. — Geo. Roberts, Lofthouse, near Wakefield. 



A good exchange in anatomical and pathological slides, 

 including some first-class injections, for a good canary singing 

 cage. Norwich or London fancy, or other canaries, Brahma or 

 Leghorn fowls. — Henry Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



What offers for a good i-plate mahogany camera and portrait 

 lens, suitable for cards, &c, with stops complete, and also fitted 

 with a dark slide for stereo-pictures with parallel bars, &c. ? — 

 H. Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



What offers for Swift's portable or seaside microscope ? with 

 4-inch extra O. G., cost five guineas. Photographic apparatus 

 preferred. — A. Draper, 275 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield. 



Wanted, foreign stamps in exchange for British shells. — 

 C. Jefferys, Tenby. 



Exchange, stuffed teal (without case) ; also steel drill and 

 trass blowpipe, for the following side-blown eggs, swift, redpole, 

 whinchat, nightingale, uheateir, hooded crow, coot, dipper, 

 ring-ouzel.— E. J. D., 59 City Road, Bristol. 



Wanted, specimens of the rarer species of British marine 

 shells. Offered, natural history specimens. — C. Jefferys, Tenby. 



Wanted, eggs of the rarer British birds. Offered, other 

 species, shells, &c. — C. Jefferys, Tenby. 



Wanted, Sp/iwritim ovale, Pisidium roseum, Planorbis 

 glaber, _ Limncea gluthiosa, involuta, Testacella Jialiotidea, 

 maugei, Succinca oblonga, Helix concinna, obvoluta, Bulimtts 

 montanus, Vertigo all species, Ac?ne lineata. Offered, natural 

 history specimens. — C. Jefferys, Tenby. 



Offered, Limna-a glabra and Pisidium amnicum, 'either 

 shells or living specimens and other good shells. Send list of 

 duplicates to John R. B. Masefield, Rosehill, Cheadle, Stafford 

 shire. 



Flowering plants and mosses. Wanted, mineralogical works, 

 or what offers '!— J. Harbord Lewis, F.L.S., 145 Windsor Street, 

 Liverpool. 



Botanical works for other works of interest. — J. Harbord 

 Lewis, 145 Windsor Street, Liverpool. 



Wanted, about six dozen well-mounted, interesting micro- 

 scope objects, in exchange for foreign stamp collection. 1088 

 varieties hinge-mounted, in permanent album. — H. Ebbage, 

 165 Hagley Road, Birmingham. 



l Wanted, Science-Gossip, 1874-1883, " Knowledge," nos. 

 144 to end of series; "Cabinet-maker," nos. 1-46. Offered, 

 " Knowledge," nos. 24-61 ; " Builder," nos. 2226-2301 ; " Eng- 

 lish Mechanic," vols. 37, 38, 42-44. — John Grieves, Low Friar 

 Lane, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, SciENCE-Gossir, no. 30 (June, 1867), and 1870, 

 pages 9-12, 81-8 1, 106-108, 155-157 (4 numbers). Will give 

 Science-Gossip for one of following years for the 5 numbers : 

 1S74, 1877, 1S81, or 1882. Sherbom, 507 King's Road, Chelsea. 



What offers in botanic'specimens, home or foreign, mounted 

 on sheets or album, and named, for four volumes of Science- 

 Gossip, unbound 1883, 6 inclusive. R. Hunter, 19 Bishop 

 Street, Hightown, Manchester. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Manual of Bacteriology," by Dr. E. M. Crookshank 

 (London : H..K. Lewis).—" Palaeolithic Man in N. W. Middle- 

 sex," by J. A. Brown (London : Macmillan). — " Illustrations of 

 the British Fiora," by W. H. Fitch and W. G. Smith, second ed. 

 (London: L. Reeve & Co.). — "The Liver Fluke and the Rot 

 in Sheep," by Edward Halse (London : Ed. Stanford). — "The 

 Fungus-Hunters' Guide," by W. Delisle Hay (London : Son- 

 nenschein). — "Pneumatics," by C. Tomlinson, 4th ed. (London: 

 Crosby Lockwood). — "Tourists' Guide to Suffolk," by Dr. J. 

 E. Taylor (London: Edward Stanford). — "All about Mne- 

 monics," by A. E. Middleton (London: Simpkin & Marshall). 

 "The Prevention of Consumption," by C. Candler, Melbourne 

 (London: Kegan' Paul). — "The Asclepiad." — "Proceedings 

 of the London Entom. and Nat. Hist. Soc." — Cole's "Studies 

 in Microscopical Science." — "Science and Art." — "Illustra- 

 tions." — " Book Chat." — "The Century Magazine." — Scribner's 

 "Monthly." — "The Amateur Photographer." — "The Garner." 

 —"The Naturalist."— " The Botanical Gazette."— "Journal of 

 the New York Microscopical Society." — " Belgravia." — "The 

 Gentleman's Magazine." — "American Monthly Microscopical 

 Journal." — " The Essex Naturalist." — " Economic Naturalist." 

 — " The Midland Naturalist." — " Feuille des Jeunes Natura- 

 listes." — 1" The American INaturalist." — "Journal of Micro- 

 scopy and Nat. Sci." — "Wesley Naturalist." — "Journal of 

 Conchology." — " Museum Memorandum Book," by Rev. H. H. 

 Huggins." — "Victorian Naturalist." — "Ottawa Naturalist." — 

 "Journal Quekett Club." — "Journal Royal Microscopical 

 Soc." — "Proceedings Geologists' Association." — " Eighth 

 Annual Report North of England Microscopical Soc." — " Report 

 Rugby School Nat. Hist. Soc." — "Trans. Dumfriesshire Nat. 

 Hist. Soc." — "Annual Report Manchester Microscopic Soc." 



Communications received up to the 13TH ult. from : 



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

 J. C. F.— J. E. L.-C S. J.— Rev. H. H. H— H. M. J. U.— 



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

 J. C. W— S. S— J. H. R.— H. L.— R. H. N. B.— G. H. B.— 

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

 C. P.— J. R. B. M.— J. H. L.— H. E. E.— H. E. V.-C. J.— 

 J. P. G.— E. J. D.— J. F.— B. B. W.— A. F. R.— J. C. W.— 

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

 — H. A. F.-'H. V.-G. R.— F. C. K.— W. H.— T. L.— 

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

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

 —J. H. P.— W. H.— W. M. W.— W. G.— H. E. J.— T. W.— 

 J. M.-r-J. E.— P. J.— C. A. O.— J. C— C. L. L.— J. M. H.— 

 A. J. J.— E. C— Rev. A. C. S.— W. C— F. R. S.-W. A. C— 

 \V._S. B.— G. W. R.— H. F. R.— W. K.— H. W. K.— 

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

 Dr. J. W. W.— J. G.— R. H.— J. B.— W. M. W.— H. M. E.— 

 &c &c. 



