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HARD WICKE'S SCIENCE- G OS SIP. 



C. C. — (Somme, France). The "London Catalogue" is an 

 authoritative list of all genuine British plants. It is published 

 at 6d., and may be had of Messrs. Allen & Co., Waterloo 

 Place. London. 



Rev. D. M. C. — Many thanks for your coloured drawing of 

 double mushroom. In Science-Gossip for 1865, you will tind 

 figured a triple mushroom. Double ones are not uncommon. 



EXCHANGES. 



I wish to exchange named and localised American fossils, in 

 good condition, for others from England. None but those who 

 mean business need answer this advertisement. — A. G. Wetherly, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. 



Wantei>, foreign zoophytes, especially those from Australia, 

 Tasmania, Africa, and the East ; also diatomaceous earth from 

 the same districts ; good slides offered in exchange. — Racine, 

 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



Members wanted for an " Evercirculator " to be devoted to 

 Entomology. Address for particulars — T. F. Uttley, S.S.C., 

 17 Brazennose Street, Albert Square, Manchester. 



Cocoons of the North American Promethea and Cecropia 

 moths, in exchange for moths, butterflies, and cocoons. Papilio 

 (swallow-tailed) butterflies especially wanted. — Jas. L. Mitchell 

 jun., Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. 



Wanted, a Ross's microscope, with all accessories, give 

 details, in exchange for a large herbarium, containing about 

 7000 species, value ,£150. — J. Harbord Lewis, F.L.S., 145 

 Windsor Street, Liverpool. 



Offered, a pair of tumbler and one barb pigeon, all good 

 birds, in exchange for nine micro slides (miscellaneous). — R. H. 

 Thomas, 28 Albert Road, Devonport. 



Cleaned and prepared scales of pagaro, melletto, buga, and 

 other Mediterranean fish, in exchange for well-mounted slides. 

 Li^t. — John R. Marten, Pharmacie Uddo, Mentone, France. 



Wanted, "The Illustrated Science Monthly," vol. iii., in 

 numbers. Will give good micro slides in exchange. — Rev. H. W. 

 Lett, Ardmore Glebe, Lurgan. 



Wanted, fore ; gn stamps or fossils in exchange for fossils of 

 the Drift from a bed 200 feet above the sea level. Can give six 

 varieties. — J. S. Milne, King-Edward, Banff. 



Wanted, a ropy of Dr. Cooke's "Handbook of British 

 Fungi," in good condition, exchange. — John Brown, 5 Byron 

 Street, Sheildlield, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, a small set of instruments for amateur dissecting 

 purposes. — T. A. Leonard, 258 Woodboro' Road, Nottingham. 



A good exchange for following nests containing full sets of 

 eggs : stonechat, wood warbler, great tit, rock pip;t, cirl bunt- 

 ing, hawfinch, goldfinch. — W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, 

 Clifi on, Bristol. 



Wanted, pupae, various species; offered, British lepidoptera. 

 — W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



For exchange or oiherwise, vols, iii., iv., v., vi. of " Boy's 

 Own Paper," canaries, bullfinches, or guinea-pigs preferred. — 

 W. S. Castle-Turner, 6 Dagnall Paik Terrace, Selhurst, S.E. 



For disposal, Science-Gossip, Nos. 145 to 214, 151, 158, 173. 

 174. 181, 184, 191, 201 missing. Wanted, nigger's wig and 

 tambourine. — W. S. Castle-Turner, 6 Bagnall Park Terrace, 

 Selhurst, S.E. 



Kook of 78 botanical plates, engraved on steel, mostly by 

 Sturm. The plates contain illustrations and dissections of 589 

 fruits. Wanted, a series of micro slides illustrating lnvertebrata. 

 — E. Cosgrave, 24 Gardiner's Place, Dublin. 



Wanted, skeleton of fish, frog, reptile, bird, and small 

 mammal ; also any vertebrate or invertebrate specimens that 

 would be useful for teaching purposes. Will exchange collection 

 of nearly 200 skulls (.various). — E. Cosgrave, 24 Gardiner's 

 Place, Dublin. 



Wanted, contents of a micro aquarium and unmounted 

 objects, in exchange for mounted objects, postage-stamp album 

 with stamps, value 10s., and a few numbers of Science-Gossip. 

 — K. Beddow, Derby. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip for 1884, and No. 242, 1885. Will 

 give in exchange "The Journal of a Naturalist," Knapp, new, 

 half morocco, good copy. — R. C. Chaytor, Scrafton Lodge, 

 MMdleham, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, marine shells : Crania, Lepton, I'enus ovata, Tel- 

 Una donacina, Venerupis, Chiton rider, C. Icevis, C. marmo- 

 reus, Velutina, Acera. Pleurobranch, Cardium fasciatunt, 

 Marginclla, solecurtis, &c. Many to offer in exchange. — 

 C. D. S., Maplewell, Loughborough. 



Clans, biplicata, Ach.acicula, Pal. contecta, P. vivipara, B. 

 I.ciichii, Odostomia piicata, O. rissoides, Rissoa semistriata, 

 and many others in exchange for small series of the commoner 

 species from different localities, especially from Ireland or 

 Wales.— S. C. Cockerell, 51 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, 

 Chi.wick, W. 



J 'lelianthcinum folifolium, Silene conica, Lavatera ar- 

 horea, &c, offered in return for other specimens.— E. C. May, 

 The Bartons, Dawlish. 



L. C. 7th edition. Offered 40, 41, 58, 182, 196, 205, 2326, 315, 

 316, 350, 38% 406, 45s, 539, 668, 723, 773, 814, 832, 857, 931, 

 1036, 1040. 1043, 1056, 1072, 1090, 1125, 1270, 1384, 1411, T473, 

 ^Sg, 1590, 1591, 1596, 1597, 1665, desiderata numerous. — W. S. 

 Harrison, 15 Park Place East, Sunderland. 



Wanted, Loudon's "Arboretum " &c. Will exchange rare 

 and old works on Botany and Gardening. — A. D. Webster 

 Llandegai, Bangor, N.W. 



Will exchange for other works on Botany, several parts of 

 Maunde's " Botanic Garden," bound : Linnseus's " Flora Jap 

 ponica ; " "Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain," 

 by Anne Pratt, Vol. 1 ; Northern " British Botany" in 4 vols'.- 

 Macintosh's "Practical Gardener," "A new Orchard and 

 Garden," with the "Country Housewife's Garden for Herbs," 

 and the " Husbandry of Bees," 1623, from the Library of 

 Stewart of Allonton. In good condition and beautifully bound 

 in calf.— A. D. Webster, Llandegai, Bangor. 



Wanted, coins, medals, tokens, old china or ancient 

 pjttery, &c, in exchange for fossils, canaries, or foreign 

 Stamps. — F. Stanley, 6 Clifton Gardens, Margate. 



LiNNfi, " Systema Naturae," 9 vols, clean and perfect. 

 Exchange offers, requested.— G. A. Barker, 1 Northwold Road, 

 Upper Clapton, E. 



Wanted, axial crystals, selenite figures, plates, wedges, &c, 

 for small polar tourmalines, micro, or lantern slides. — H. E. 

 Freeman, 60 Plimsoll Road, Finsbury Park, N. 



Wanted, Yarrel's " British Fishes," Westwood's " Sessile- 

 eyed -Crustacea," Ray Society, and other good natural 

 history works in exchange for a new copy of Brenchley's 

 '• Voyage of the CuraQoa," with 50 plates, mostly coloured, of 

 insects, &c. (very scarce), and other books.— C. A. Grimes 

 Dover. 



Botterill's adjustable zoophyte trough ("new), twenty vars. 

 of British mosses, and specimens of the Brayaham Beetle 

 (Auaplognat/ius LeachiiS, exchange for other microscopic 

 apparatus and material.— W. J. Abel, Busford Road, Notting- 

 ham. 



Wanted,_ members for the Scientific Circulating Magazine 

 Society, which offers the choice of three parcels of magazines 

 for perusal every month.— T. F. Uttley, 17 Brazennose Street, 

 Manchester. 



Good exchange given in insect preparations for all kinds of 

 English and foreign insects (in spirit), must be in good condition. 

 — C. Collins, Bristol House, Harlesden, N.W. 



A well-made cabinet with 576 insects, moths, and butter- 

 flies, all British, many local specimens. Cabinet, 4 feet high by 

 3 feet wide, 38 drawers, 18 by 16, slide bottoms, drawers covered 

 with glass. — Robert Barker, 11 Townend Street, Groves, York. 

 The last thirty parts of " Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," 

 exchange for books or offers. — H. C. Quilter, 4 Cedar Road, 

 Leicester. 



Wanted, British or foreign land and freshwater and British 

 marine shells. Offered, P.fontinale, Limax Icevis, Testiicella 

 haliotidea, H. mpestris, V. antivcrtigo, B. perversa, CI. bipli- 

 cata, Coch. tridens, &c. — F. G. Fenn, 20 Woodstock Road 

 Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



For exchange: Lascra rubra, I'enus exoleta, Otina at is, 

 B. perz'ersa, Trochus /meatus, Helix virgata (vars.), Trochus 

 magus, Helix nemoralis (several vars.), Limncra auricularia, 

 Venus verrucosa, H. tuberculata, &c. — B. Tomlin, 59 Liverpool 

 Road, Chester. 



Birds' Nests, English and Foreign. — Advertiser wishes 

 to correspond with any other collectors of above. — Geo. A. 

 Widdas, Bond Street, Leeds. 



Micro-slides, well mounted, vegetable sections, double 

 stained, in exchange for other slides. — J. E. Nowers, 71, Bran- 

 stone Road, Burton-on-Trent. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 " Fourth Annual Report of U. S. Geol. Survey," 1882-83, 

 (Washington: Government Printing Office.) — "On some Re- 

 cently Discovered Insecta from Carboniferous and Silurian 

 Rocks," by H. Goss, F.L.S. — "The Victorian Naturalist," 

 Nos. 5 and 6, vol. ii. — "On Boulder-Glaciation," by Hugh 

 Miller, F.G.S.— " River Terracing," by Hugh Miller, F.G.S. 

 — "The Journal of Conchology." — "The Illustrated Science 

 Monthly." — " The American Florist." — " The American 

 Monthly Microscopical Journal." — " Cosmos." — " Science." — 

 "The Amateur Photographer." — "Ben Brierley's Journal." — 

 "The Rochdale Field Naturalists' Journal." — " FVuille des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes." — "The Garner." — Animal World." — 

 "The Naturalist."— "The Midland Naturalist."— "Journal of 

 the Quekett Microscopical Club."— "The American Natura- 

 list." — Cole's " Studies in Microscopical Science." &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult from : — 

 T. A. L.— J. B.— E. G.— E. M— J. H. L.— J. F.— C. D. S.— 

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

 — E. I.— A. H.— F. M— E. B. L. B.— W. S. C. T.— T. S. S.— 

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

 G. C. R.— E. C— A. B.— P. Q. L.— E. H.— W. M. C. O'N.— 

 Dr. P. Q. K.— A. D. W.— F. S.— G. A. B.— J. R.— C. A. G.— 

 H. E. V. — E. C. M.— S. C. C— W. S. H.— W. T. C— 

 J. H. A. J.— W. J. A.— F. G. F.— J. T.— T. F. V.—D M. C— 

 C. C— G. A. W — R. B.— S. H. D.— D. J. R.— H. E. Q.— 

 Dr. J. W. W.— W. O.— B. M.— W. J.— H. W. L.— J. B — 

 B. T.— F. H. A.— G. A. W.— J. E. U.— D. B.— A. S. W — 

 M. M.— &c. 



