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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Wanted, back numbers or volurres of "Grevilla" in ex- 

 change for back numbers of "The Journal of Microscopy " or 

 "Journal of Botany" for 1883.— C. H. Waddell, Kendal. 



For exchange, some anatomical sections ready for mounting. 

 What offers?— C. H. Waddell, Kendal. 



Wanted, ammonites not in collection, British or foreign. 

 Many duplicates of fossils, etc., in exchange. — John Hawell, 

 Ingleby Vicarage, Northallerton. 



Wanted, diatoma eous earth from Mejillones in Bolivia, 

 South America ; can give in return diatomaceous earth from 

 Oamaru, New Zealand.— E. Michalek, 1 Fleischmarkt, Wien, 

 Austria. 



Wanted, larva, pupa, and perfect insect of the Hessian fly, 

 mounted or unmounted ; good exchange in slides ; write first.— 

 J. Boggust, Alton, Hants. 



" Outlines of Geology," by Phillips & Conybeare, coloured 

 map and coloured sections, large octavo, 1822; "Zoologist," 

 unbound, for 1887; Fkuier's "Birds and Reptiles," profusely 

 illustrated, 1883, for other books or anything useful. — George 

 Roberts, Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



Science-Gossip, unbound, from 1S79 to Sept. present year, 

 including sixteen coloured plates ; what offers? Also " Northern 

 Microscopist," unbound, 1881-3.— P. Webster, King's End, 

 Ruislip, near Uxbridge, Middlesex. 



" Micrographic Dictionary," by Griffith & Henfrey, 2nd ed., 

 cost 52.T. What offers?— P. Webster, King's End, Ruislip, 

 near Uxbridge, Middlesex. 



Wanted, physiological, patho'ogical, and other good mate- 

 ria'. Will give well-mounted slides.— Fred. Lee Carter, 25 

 Lansdowne Terrace, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, micro appliances, books, objectives, microtomes, 

 etc. Will give slides in exchange : anatomical, pathological, 

 botanical, parasites, zoophytes, diatoms (selected and spread), 

 micro fungi, etc. — Fred. Lee Carter, 25 Lansdowne Terrace, 

 Gosforth, Nevvcastle-on-Tyne. 



A few dozens selected diatom slides from Oamaru, etc., 

 highest class, offered in exchange for lantern transparency of 

 scenery, &c. Mutual approval.— G. Conser, Ballymurphy, 

 Belfast. 



Offered, eggs of chough, pine grosbeak, dotterel, Manx 

 shearwater, storm petrel, gannet, guillemot, razor bill, puffin, 

 corn bunting, ten clutches of heron, seven mute swan, water 

 rail, cormorant, kitti*ake, herring and great black-backed 

 gulls, great skua, kestrel, stonechat, dipper, goldcrest, reed 

 bunting, bullfinch, magpie, eider duck. Wanted, perfect 

 clutches, satisfactory data.— R. J. Ussher, Cappagh, Lismore, 

 Ireland. 



Offered, L. C, 8th ed., 119, 135, 180, 193, 237, 272, 313, 

 379. 641, 648, 707, 757, 883, 909, 954, 1191, 1198, 1203, 1287, 

 1289, 1302 d, 1318, 1330, 1409, 1417, 1475, 1479, 1497, 15 )5. 1538, 

 1620, 1623, 1*24, 1636, 1804. Many de iderata.— G. K, Glide, 

 5 Giesbach Road, Upper Holloway, London, N. 



Offered, good cuitches of kestrel, dipper, ring, ouzel, reed 

 bunting, golden plover, sandpiper, curlew, grey lag goose (one 

 clutch), pochard, common gull, herring gull, lesser black-backed 

 gull, great black-backed gull, great sheen, Manx shearwater, 

 stormy petrel, all British and recent. Wanted, many British 

 species. — Dr. Davidson, Sanquhar, N.B. 



Wanted, Lepidoptera from all parts of the world ; will try 

 and make a good return in American Lepidoptera or unmounted 

 micro objects. Histological sections also wanted. — Frank G. 

 Jones, 1623 Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. 



Wanted, elementary micro slides for a young men's institute. 

 They will be thankfully received by— A. Wildy, 48 Albion 

 Road, South Hampstead, N.W. 



Wanted, Webb's "Celestial Objects for Common Tele- 

 scopes"; will give in exchange, both perfectly new, Noble's 

 " Hours with a Three-inch Telescope," and Phillip's Plani- 

 sphere, giving stars for every'hour in the year, rising and setting 

 of sun, etc.; or English and foreign stamps.— B. Truscott, 

 Woodlane, Falmouth. 



Wanted, L. C., 7th ed., Nos. 834-1042, 1347, and others ; 

 a large number of rare plants to offer for selection in exchange. 

 — C. A. O., 7 Cavendish Terrace, Torquay. 



Oological and conchological specimens for exchange. Co- 

 lonial correspondence invited. — Dr. Reed, jun., Ryhope, Sun- 

 derland. 



Wanted, rare foreign stamps, coins, and medals in exchinge 

 for natural history specimens.— W. K. Mann, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, specimens of dragonflies (Odonata) from all parts 

 of the world ; will exchange for them such specimens of natural 

 history as I may be able to collect, according to the wish of the 

 exchanger.— Ph. P. Calvert, Entomological Section, Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, 19th and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 U.S.A. 



Wanted, a photo camera, with len^e and accessories, com- 

 plete, in exchange for microscope by Nachet, three obj. glasses, 

 ', '!., and ,'„, three eyepieces, condenser, etc., in mahogany 

 cabinet, cost £5 5s secondhand from C. Baker, High Holborn, 

 this year; has hardly been used. — George Fell, jun., Aylesbury. 



Micro slides (over 300) offered in exchange for any books or 

 scientific apparatus.— A. Downes, 5 Royal Park Road, Clifton, 

 Bristol. 



Wanted, a genuine clutch, with full data, of eggs of golden 

 eagle, must be Scotch.- G. T. Phillips, Wokingham, Berks. 



Offered, L. C, 7th ed., Nos. 3T, 57, 59, 588, 595, 699, 809, 

 1021, 1024, 1043, 1149, 1287, T288, 1417, in exchange for others. 

 — A. Sangster, Ivy Cotta.e, Cattie, Oldmeldrum, N.B. 



Wan 1 ed, Cape Guinea, Ceylon, China, Japan, and New 

 Zealand shells in exchange for British shell-, Polish Devonian 

 corals, Trias rock specimens, Devonian greensand fossils, sec- 

 tions of a'l Devonian corals for micro purposes ; also fine speci- 

 mens of Pyroxe ne andesite, from South America, that cuts fine 

 lock sections. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, 

 Teignmouth, Devon. 



Wanted, Pholas crisfiata, Terebratula caput-serpentis, 

 lantkina communis, I. britannica, I. pallida, I. exigua, 

 Trochus granulatus, Puncturella noachina, Entarginula re- 

 ticulata, Hyalcea trispinosa, / ecten niveus, P. Audouinii P- 

 Danicus, P. Tigrinus, P. striatus, P. furtivus, P. Pusio, 

 large size ; rare British shells in exchange. — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 M.C.S., Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Offered, Vert, antivertigo, substriata, CI. Rolphii, Pupa 

 ringens, Zon. excavatus,Sph. ovale, vars. of Anodonta. Wanted, 

 ■S". oblonga, virescens, L. involuta, other vert, or conch jlogical 

 books or papers. — J. A. Hargreaves, Charlestown, Shipley, 

 Yorkshire. 



Wanted, good fruiting specimens of Siarganium a/fine and 

 S. minimum ; rare plants in exchange. — Beeby, 14 Ridinghouse 

 Street, W. 



Clausilia Rolphii, Unto margaritifer, or any variety of 

 Unioidiae, or any other shells not in collection, British or 

 foreign. — Fred Rhodes, 26 East View, Eccleshill, Bradford. 



Eumcnes coarctata, some splendid cells containing live grub 

 of this rare insect, all British. What offers ?—F. Dolamore, 

 Avenue Road, Bournemouth. 



Wanted, flies, dragonflies, bugs, or any insects except 

 British lepidoptera ; unset specimens will do, British or 

 foreign. If any collector will send me a box of such, I will 

 return it filled *ith British lepidoptera. — S. L. Mosely, Beau- 

 mont Park Museum, Huddersfield. 



Leaf of Hipfiophae rhamnoides, unmounted, in exchange for 

 any interesting micro object.— C. R- Dykes, 3 Norfolk Crescent, 

 Bath. 



Fabric Slides. — Amongst these I have a separate series 

 specially to show adulteration in fabrics, as in unions of sdk 

 and cotton and woollen and cotton, also to show deceptions in 

 fabrics by sizing, finishing, and weighting. Will exchange for 

 first-class micro and magic lantern slides. — Walter Henshall,. 

 The Hollies, Bredbury, near St >ckport. 



Wanted, vol. iv. Morris's " British Birds" and vol. iv. Brei's 

 " Birds of Europe," first editions, for vol. 1. Morris, or state 

 wants.— W. P. H., 26 Market Place, Newark. 



British butterflies and moths, bees and other hymenoptera, 

 beetles, bird skins, &c, for British birds' eggs, shells, Namral 

 History, and other books. Only really good specimens sent out 

 or received. — W. H. Harwood, Colchester. 



Prepared objects for micro-mounting, diatoms, fungi and 

 zoophytes, etc. — George T. Read, Paradise House, Paradise 

 Row, Stoke Newington, London, N. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 "Lectures on Bacteria," by A. de Bary (OxLrd : Clarendon 

 Press). — " Living Lights," by C. E. Holler (London : Sampson 

 Low). — " Dictionary of Place Names," by C. Blackie (London - 

 John Murray ). — " The Creator, and what we may know of the 

 Methodsof Creation," by Dr. Dallinger (London : T. Woobner). 

 " Elementary Treatise on Light and Heat," by the Rev. F. W. 

 Aveling (London: Relfe Bros.]. — "Elementary Mineralogy," 

 by F. Rutley, 3rd el. (London: Murby). — "Catalogue of 

 British, Moliusca," by Chas. Jeffreys, and "Catalogue of 

 British Land and Fresh Water Molli sea," ditto (Glouce tcr: 

 H. W. Marsden).— " Ot ier Suns than Ours," by R. A Proctor 

 (London: W. H. Allen & L.o).—" Proceedings Folkestone Nat. 

 Hist. Soc."—" Trans. Middlesex Nat. Hist, and Science Soc." 

 — " Proceedings Bristol Naturalists' Society.'' — " Report Liver- 

 pool Geol. Association." — "Report Hemel-Hempstead Nat. 

 Hist. Soc." — " The Lake Age in Ohio." by E. W. Claypolc. — 

 "Essex Naturalist " — " American Monthly Microscopic Jour- 

 nal." — " Journal of Microscopy " — " Century." — " Gentleman's 

 Mag." — " Belgravia." — " Midland Naturalist." — " Wesley- 

 Naturalist." — " American Naturalist." — " Victoria Naturalist." 

 — " Garner." — " Amateur Photographer." — " Br.tish Dogs," 

 No. 13. — " The Naturalist." — &c., &c, &c. 



COMMUNICATION RECEIVED UP TO THE I2TH ULT. FROM: 



T. B.— Dr. A. D.— H. M. J. U.— F. G. I.— F. N.— A. L 



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

 W. H. B.-A. W.— Dr. R., jun. -C. A. O.— G. S.— B. T.— 

 J. C— C. L. G.— H. D.— W. E. C— W. M.— R. D. P.— A J. J. 

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

 C. T. H.— J. E. L.— J. H. K — C. B. M.— A. E.— R. D.— 

 C. F. C.—C. V. C— F. D.— W. S— J. W. R.— J. B. B.— 

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

 —J. B.-A. B. — J. W.-J. C W.— F. L C— W. H. B— A— 

 H.-G. C— F. G.-R. J. U.-G. H. G— J. O.— Dr. K.— 

 T. W.— E. C.-C. R. D— G. A. T. F.— S. P. P.-A. D.— 

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

 — H. W. L.-W. H.— K. D., &c. 



