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HA RD WJCKE'S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



Wanted, Davis's " Practical Microscopy," Carpenter's, 

 Hogg's, or Beale's, newest editions. W ill give good micro- 

 slides in exchange for any of the above. — W. Sim. Gourdas, 

 Fyvie, N. B. 



Well-mounted palates of periwink, L. littorea, land and 

 freshwater snails, and other mounts. Wanted, good anatomical 

 and botanical slides, selected diatoms, and good unmounted 

 material, micro, apparatus, etc. — J. C. Blackshaw, 4 Ranelagh 

 Road, Wolverhampton. 



L. C. 7th edition. Oblata : 33, 39, 40, 95, 97, 129, 15*, 179, 

 183, 189, 201, 206, 2ii, 216, 273, 274, 281, 317, 360, 366, 375, 

 383, 386, 39^, 475. 487. 489. 5°i. 534. c 48, 553. 568, 57°. 57 1 . 

 573. 581, 595. 6'4. 644, 653, 654, 660, 608, 695, 711, 717, 738, 

 741. 757^. 841, 853, 858, 873, 895, 913, 915, 917, 928, 931, 934, 

 957, 968, 1029, 1032, 1039, 1040, 1053, J °SS. 1056, 1092, 1132, 

 1137, 1148(1, 1210, 1249, 1258, 1263, 1267, 1274, 1290, I29r, 



1294. I3'5. 1317. 13 26 . 1341. '349. I 354. 1377. 1381, 1382, 1383. 



1405, 1409, 1411, 1420, 1447, 1450, 1452, 1455, 1459, 1469, 1482, 



1520, 1525, 1542, 1568. 1569, 15S8, 1607, 1617, 1627, 1634, 1636, 



1640. For exchange : send list to C. Copineau, Juge a Doullens 



(Somme), France. 



Science-Gossip, 4 vols., 1882-1885, and " Knowledge," 



vols. i. ii. iii., all bound plain cloth. What offers in Herbert 



Spencer or Darwin's works? — W. Hardie, 1 Fingal Place, 



Edinburgh, 



Duplicates: Flanorbis lineatus, Ancylus Jluviatilis, Helix 



Cartusiana, H. caterata v. major, H. ericetorum v. minor, 

 Pupa secale, Vertigo pygmaa, Balea perversa, and Clausilia 

 Rolphii. Desiderata: British Land and Freshwater Shells. — 



C. H. Morris, School Hill, Lewes. 



Wanted, museum specimens of an ethnological and anthro- 

 pological character. A large selection of microscopic slides of 

 marine life, etc. ; North American and British shells ; Crustacea, 

 and other specimens offered in exchange. — Ed. Lovett, West 

 Burton House, Outram Road, Croydon. 



Wanteh, Nos. 102, 190, 193, 194 196, 197, 220, 22i, 222, 223, 

 of Newman's " Entomologist, ' also "Entomological Monthly 

 Magazine," Nos. from 49 to 55, inclusive of vol. 5, and 

 " Archajologia Cantiana," vol. 1. — F. Frohawk, Park Place, 

 Eltham, Kent. 



Wanted, Nos. 203, Nov. '81 : 20S, May '82 : 213, Sept. '82 : 

 215, Nov. '82 ; 219 to 237 inclusive, March to Sept. '84; in all 

 23 Nos. Science-Gossip, to complete set. Offered duplicates 

 from co. Dublin of Helix aspersa, ntmoralis and vars., rufescens, 

 ■piscina and var., alba, virgata and vars. albicans, macu/ata, 

 leucozona and alba, caperata, and Bulimus acutus and vars., 

 or will collect and forward specimens of Land, Freshwater and 

 Marine Shells. — J. Roland Redding, 103 Seville Place, Dublin. 

 Wanted, deep-sea soundings, shore gatherings, foreign or 

 English chalks, or other material coma ning Foraminifera or 

 Polycystina First class micro-slides or cash in exchange. — 

 Jackson, Hillfold, Bolton. 



What offers in exchange for a Geological Show-case, 3 ft. 

 10 in. X 2 ft. 2 in., 11 in. deep, with 6 slanting shelves, glass doors, 

 lock and key, also Woodward's " Geology of England and 

 Wales," and " Manual of Mollusca." — Geo. E. East, jun., 10 

 Basinghall Street, London, E.C. 



Scotch Graptolites offered in exchange for tropical shells, 

 or for rare fos-ils. — Miss F. M. Hele, Fairlight, Elmgrove 

 Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



A limited number of first-class microscopical mounts in 

 balsam, of portions of elytron of scarce diamond beetle — most 

 beautiful object — for other first-class mounts of insects or bota- 

 nical sections. — A. B. Hoskings, Ventnor Cottage, College Park, 

 Lewisham. 



Wanted, British and foreign books on marine algae. 

 Offered, scientific and other books, excellent slides of marine 

 algae in fruit, or cash. — T. H. Buff ham, Hughenden Villa, 

 Comely Bank Road, Walthamstow. 



Micko-slides: a series of Exotic Ferns, showing the sori. etc., 

 in exchange for other good slides. Also three or four different 

 fern spores for exchange. — W. Henshall, The Hollies, 

 Bred'oury, near Stockport. 



Wanted, Hartmg's or other good book on British land and 

 freshwater shells, in exchange for the first 20 parts of 

 "European Butterflies and Moths" including this month's. — 

 A. E. Dodridge, 7 Wharton Street, W.C. 



Wanted, a good case of dissecting instruments for micro- 

 scopic and other purposes. Apply stating requirements to — 

 F. R. Rowley, 60 Lower Hastings Street, Southfields, Leicester. 



Fou exchange. JT. cornenm, A. cygnca, Bythinia tenta- 

 culata, Flanorbis vortex, Flanorbis comptanatus, L. 

 peregra, H. hortrnsis, //. virgata, H. tricttorum, Clausilia 

 rngesa, Cyclostoma tlegaus. Desiderata : land and fresh- 

 water shells, //. pisana, H . lapicida, L. auricularia, Paludina. 

 contecia, and others. — Frederick Harding, Shipley House, York 

 Road, F^astbourne. 



Many slides of foreign Polyzoa well mounted, and true to 

 name, in exchange for other slides : good diatoms preferred. 

 Send lists to— Rev. A. C. Smith, 3 Park Crescent, Brighten. 



For disposal, small collection of British shells, on tablets ; 

 Gosse's " Marine Zoology," Rimmer's " Land and Freshwater 

 Shells," and Pascoe's " List of British Coleoptera," all clean. — 

 J. B. Mayor, 5 Queen's Terrace, Long^ight, Manchester. 



W-vnted, nests of magpie, tree pipit, lesser whitethroat, 

 kingfisher, yellow wagtail, dipper, redstart, and house martin, 

 complete; good exchange given in eggs. — A. A. Shaw, Market 

 Buildings, Ashton-under-Lyne. 



L. C. 7th edition, offered : 85, 261, 232^, 196, 406, 315, 316, 

 931, 1056, 1125, 693, T614, 1615. 1596, etc. : many desiderata. — 

 W. S. Harrison, 15 Park Place East, Sunderland. 



Well-mounted micro-slides of fi«h-scales: Sudak, and 

 species of Corregonus, from Russia ; Ballan wrasse and others ; 

 to exchange for other good mounts. — Rev. H. W. Lett, M.A., 

 Loughbrickland, co. Down. 



A number of duplicate flint, greensand, and other fossils for 

 disposal. — J. A. Floyd, 18 Whiting Street, Bury St. Edmunds. 



"Zoological Atlas" (vertebrata) by D. M'Alpine ; 

 " British Fossils," by Morris ; " Fossil Merostomata," part 1, by 

 H.Woodward. Land, freshwater and marine shells from Ceylon 

 and India. Several osteological specimens offered in exchange 

 for a good series of Continental fossils or offers. — Miss Linter, 

 Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



What offers in exchange for two years' " Northern Micro- 

 scopist "? — Henry Vial, Crediton. 



Various injected tissues, either uncut or in sections, fot 

 magic-lantern slides, stereoscopic slides, or offers. — Henry Vial, 

 Crediton. 



What offers for Bulimus labia in good condition ? — Chemicus, 

 8 Trinity Street, Hastings. 



Wanted, living Hydrozoa and Polyzoa, also good works on 

 British Zoophytes: state wants. — Chemicus, 8 Trinity Street, 

 Hastings. 



Wanted, a i inch O. G., and a stand condenser, in exchange 

 for a 6 large-cell granule battery. — G. H., 8 Tothill Street, S.W. 



Wanted, the following numbers of Science-Gossip: 195, 202, 

 203 (1881), 205, 209, 210, 211, 214, 216 (1882), in exchange for 

 well-mounted micro-slides. — Herbert Spencer, 10 Avenue Road, 

 Regent's Park, N.W. 



Wantrd, British Marine Shells or back numbers of the 

 "Journal of Conchology," in exchange for land and fresh- 

 water, including Pis. font itiale, Pis. pusillum, Pal. vivipara, V. 

 antivcrtigo, Balea perversa, CI. biplicata, etc. — F. Fenn, 

 20 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick. W. 



Objectives: two excellent new objectives — J-inch by Swiit. 

 90 , -I-inch by Crouch, 40 — to exchange both for a good J-inch. 

 Mutual approval. — E. B. Fennessy, Pallasgreen, Limerick. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED, 



"Topography and Natural History of Lofthouse," 2 vols., by 

 Geo. Roberts (Leeds: printed for the author). — "Practical 

 Bacteriology," by E. M. Crookshank, MB. (London: H. K. 

 Lewis). — '" The Light of Life," by Joseph John Kain (London : 

 Wyman & Sons). — " List of British Marine Shells," by A. 

 Somerville, F.R.S. (Glasgow). — " Polarised Light as applied 

 to the Microscope," by Edwin A. Holmes. — " Geology, 

 Chemical, Physical and Stratigraphical," by Joseph Prestwich, 

 F.R.S. (Oxford: Clarendon Press).— " Reports of the Gold 

 Fields of Victoria." 1885. — "The Gentleman's Magazine," — 

 " Belgravia." — " Hooper & Co.'s Spring Catalogue." — 

 "Change in Land and Sea," by C. S. Whiting. — "The 

 Naturalist." — " The Journal of Conchology." — " The Illus- 

 trated Science Monthly." — "The American Florist." — "The 

 American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — "Cosmos." — 

 "Science." — "The Amateur Photographer. "■ — "Ben Brierley's 

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

 " I'euilledes Jeunes Naturalistes." — "The Garner." — "Animal 

 World."— "The Naturalist."— " The Midland Naturalist." — 

 " The American Naturalist." — " Canadian Entomologist," &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from : — 

 J. J. H. T.— W. H.— E. W.— F. N. W.— A. E. D.— B. P.— 

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

 _W. H.— Dr. J. W. W.— E. D. M.— W. L. S.— C. P.— W. B. G. 

 —Dr. G. M. G.— J. F.— A. C. C —J. T.— W. C. H.-T. H. B. 

 — S. H. D.— A. B. H.— J. J. W— H. W. K.-D. W. B.— 

 E. B. L. B.— F. M. H.-C. A. N.— Dr. P. Q. K.— E. A. H— 

 A. W. P.— W. T. C— P. Q. L.-H. C. F.-W. M. W.— L. J. 

 — C. L. J.— S. C. C— T. S.— J. H. B.— J. R. R.— H. F.— 

 G. E. E.— J. C. H.— R. T. G. R.— T. D. A. C— F. F.— T. F. 

 — E. L.— W. W.— A. H. W.— G. W.— W. W. F.— R. P.— C. R. 

 _j. w. O.— R. H. N. B. - J. A. jun.— W. H.— J. T. T. R.— 

 Dr. S. M. M— C. H. M.— M. S.— T. H.— M. L. S.— C. C— 

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

 \V. S.— C. L. S.— G. I. E. H.— W. H.— H. S.— F. F.— C. F. W. 

 — H. V.— H. W. L.— A. A. S.— F. R. R.— F. E.— J. A. F.— 

 W. S. H.— J. W. 0.— F. H.— A. C. S.— J. B. M.— G. F. H.— 

 E. B. F.-W. S.— F. C. K.— C. S. W.— A. S.-J. F.— 0. A. S. 

 — E. M.— &c. &c. 



