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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Wanted, fossils from the London Clay and Woolwich and 

 Reading beds in exchange for fossils from Chalk, Greensand, 

 Wenlock Limestone, coal measures, etc. — Geo. E. East, junior, 

 10 Basinghall Street, London, E.C. 



For disposal, the "American Monthly Microscopical Jour- 

 nal," in numbers, unbound, for the years 1882, 1883, 1884 

 and 1885 ; also the " Microscope," 1885 ; and vol. 1 bound, and 

 vol. 2 unbound of "Journal of the Postal Microscopical Society." 

 What offers ?— Georg Timmins, Syracuse N.Y., U.S.A. 



Two new excellent objectives by Swift \ and \, both in 

 exchange for a good \ or -j^, mutual approval. — E. B. Fennessy, 

 Pallasgreen, Limerick. 



For disposal a -^ object-glass (really -J-) by Powell and 

 Lealand, in perfect working order. Gives 1500 dias. with its 

 eye-piece, and has 167 of aperture. Offers requested. — Dr. 

 Bousfield, 363 Old Kent Road, S.E. 



Good histological slides in exchange for good mounts of 

 foreign diatoms, or diatom material from abroad. Send slides 

 or material to Dr. Bousfield, 363 Old Kent Road, S.E. 



Good series of British land, freshwater and marine shells 

 wanted for a small public museum. The commoner species are 

 especially needed, in all stages of growth. Can offer C. biplicata 

 and many local species in exchange. — S. C. Cockerell, 51 

 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Wanted, members for the Scientific Circulating Magazine 

 Society, which offers the choice of three parcels of magazines 

 every month. — T. F. Uttley, 17 Brazennose Street, Manchester. 



Wanted, a clutch of eggs, with data, of griffon and Egyptian 

 vultures, honey buzzard, eagle owl, pied flycatcher, oriole, 

 redwing, bluethroat, water pipit, wood-lark, cirl bunting, raven, 

 hoopoe, roller, bustards, thick-knee, storks, crane, bittern, 

 and many others. Clutches of British and American eggs 

 offered in exchange ; please send lists to W. Wells-Bladen, 

 Stone, Staff. 



" Science for All," complete, unbound, quite clean : exchange 

 Cole's Studies, with slides, or offers microscopical. — Richard 

 Horton, 8 Draycott Street, Chelsea, S.W. 



Wanted, from thoroughly reliable sources, British-taken sets 

 of eggs, viz. marsh warbler, siskin, hawfinch, cirl bunting, corn 

 hunting, chough raven, wood-lark, harriers, buzzard, eagle, 

 hobby, ducks, quail, ptarmigan, spotted crake, stone curlew, 

 Kentish plover, dotterel, phalarope, Arctic tern, roseate tern, 

 divers, grebes.— W. M. Pybus, Solicitor, Post Office Chambers, 

 St. Nicholas Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



" Principles of Chemistry, founded on Modern Theories," 

 by Professor Naquet, Paris, revised in English by Dr. Steven- 

 son, Guy's Hospital. Second edition, pp. 848, 1868. Offers in 

 good micro-slides (not anatomical). — H. Epps, q=; Upper Tulse 

 Hill, S.W. 



Entomological apparatus wanted in exchange for small 

 microscope with forceps, etc. ; cost \os. 6d. — H. R. Harmer, 

 Withell Villa, Albert Road, Stratford, E. 



What offers for a shale (from the South Wales coal-fields) 

 with fossilised fronds of ferns and stem (size 12X6 in.) '? — 

 George Rees, jun., Glandulas, Lampeter, South Wales. 



Science-Gossip, wanted, any No. from commencement to 

 25, also 30, 43, 46, 51, 52, 5s to 59, 67, 68, 72, 76, 83, 84.— W. T. 

 Taylor, Seymour House, Keswick. 



Wanted, two Leclanche cells for electric bell ; will give in 

 exchange twelve splendid microscope slides. — P. Kilgour, 

 11 Stirling Street, Dundee, N.B. 



Wanted, for three volumes of "Design and Work" (two 

 vols, bound, one unbound) German works on botany, geology, 

 or entomology illustrated, bound or unbound. — F. W. Weywood, 

 Clement Street, Accrington. 



Good series of British Mollusca or fossils for early numbers 

 " Quarterly Journal of the Royal Geological Society " or offers. 

 — F. G. S., 2 Polygon, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, a good second-hand entomological cabinet: can 

 give in exchange Kirby's "European Butterflies and Moths." 

 First 38 parts Science-Gossip, 1885, unbound, or a variety 

 of side-blown eggs. — A. Kelly, 5 Canal Lane, Castle Terrace, 

 Aberdeen. 



Semele, Dispar, M. Artemis, C. album, Galathea, 

 Megsera, Cardui, Trifoli, Filipendulae, for micro-slides or offers. 

 — W. E. Watkins, 32 Huntingdon Street, Barnsbury, London, N. 



By. tentaculata, Val. cristata, PI. vortex, PI. complanatus, 

 PL contortus, Physa fontinalis, L. palustris, L. truncatula, 

 H. cantiana, H. virgata, H. ericetomm, H. rotundata, 

 CI. rugosa, Cy. elegans. Desiderata: L. glutinosa, L. glabra 

 and British Vertigos. — Frederick Harding, Shipley House, 

 York Road, Eastbourne. 



Duplicates, about fifty species of land, freshwater and 

 marine shells from Ceylon and India. List on application. 

 Wanted, land shells of Madeira, and Continental fossils. — J. E. 

 Linter, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Wanted, Larva of Quercifolia, Fuliginosa, Villica, Planta- 

 ginis, Dominula, Betulse, Sibylla, Paphia, Aglaia, Adippe, 

 Athalia, Maura, Aprilina, Lichenia, Xerampelina, Ferruginea, 

 Gilvago, Ceragio, Flanago, Fimbria, Rufina, Rubiginea ; also 

 imagines, duplicates numerous and good ; also stuffed birds. — 

 J. Bates, 10 Orchard Terrace, Wellingborough. 



Wanted, shells, fossils, minerals or foreign stamps, in ex- 

 change for books and stamps.— H. L. E., 7 Barrington Road, 

 Liverpool. 



Limntra peregra, palustris ; Bylhinia toitaculata ; Plan- 

 orbis vortex, complanatus, contortus ; Helix virgata, 

 caperata ; Clausilia rugosa, etc. Desiderata: Unio margari- 

 t'Jcr; Limna-a auricularia ; Clausilia biplicata, and others. 

 — John D. Morris, 66 Seaside Road, Eastbourne. 



Offered elementary and advanced text-books of mathe- 

 matics, chemistry, physics, etc., in exchange for botanical 

 micro-slides or specimens, or works on botany. — W. S. Harrison, 

 M.A., 15 Park Place East, Sunderland. 



First six vols. Science-Gossip, bound in cloth, splendid 

 condition. Westropp's "Archaeology," Hawkin's "Ichthyo- 

 sauri and Plesiosauri," large folio, 30 plates, Fosbroke's 

 "Ancient Costume," and a number of valuable architectural 

 works, for Rogers' " Italy " and Poems, works illustrated by 

 F. O. Morris, Bewick, Aiken, Cruikshank, Rowlandson, first 

 editions of Dickens, Ainsworth, Lever, etc. ; uncut copies only 

 taken of latter. — P. Payne, The Borough, Hinckley. 



Wanted, the first six vols, of Science-Gossip bound or 

 in parts ; will give good value in microscopic slides, various, or 

 unmounted sections and materials. — John J. Andrew, L.D.S., 

 Eng., 2 Belgravia, Belfast. 



Wanted, first-class botanical and anatomical slides, also 

 diatom slides (selected), and good unmounted material of all 

 kinds, in exchange for entomological preparations, mounted. — 

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



Wanted, good specimens of Limnaea, Planorbis, Amalia, 

 Limax and Testacella. Good exchanges given in other land 

 and freshwater shells. — F. G. Fenn, 20 Woodstock Road, 

 Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Wanted, microtome and section knife, also Valentine knife ; 

 good exchange given in first class micro-slides, viz. parasites, 

 Insecta, diatoms, animal hairs, feathers, botanical, etc. — W. S. 

 Anderson, 7 Granby Street, Ilkeston. 



Offered, C. trideus, Bulimus acutus, Sphcerium corncum, 

 var. Jlavescens, H. rufescens var. alba, Zonites excavatus, 

 H. sericea. Wanted, S. ovale, P. corneus, var. albinos r 

 H. lamellata, Bulimus montanus, Lhnnwa glutinosa, Litnncea. 

 peregra, var. Burnetti. — Rev. W. Eyre, Swarraton Rectory, 

 Alresford, Hants. 



Science-Gossip for '72, '73, '74,'75, complete and bound in two 

 vols. ; Gosse's "Evenings at Microscope," nearly new ; "Little 

 English Flora," with 280 small but accurate engaavings. 

 Wanted, Taylor's " Half Hours in Green Lanes," and any 

 advanced book on birds. — J. H. Keen, 18 Church Street, 

 Spitalrields. 



The indigenous official plants and their allies beautifully 

 mounted on cardboards, classed and named, only 7.?. 6d. or 

 exchange. — H. Higginson, Newferry, Birkenhead. 



Baxter's " British Flowering Plants," containing a beautiful 

 coloured drawing of each genus, natural size, over 500 plates, 

 and many thousand of coloured dissections, and two pages of 

 letterpress to each drawing ; very scarce, six vols, published at 

 ten guineas, will be sacrificed lor four guineas or exchange. 

 — H. Higginson, Newferry, Birkenhead. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 " Mind-cure on a Material Basis," by Sarah Elizabeth Wood 

 (Boston : Cupples & Co.). — " Handbook of Mosses," by J. E. 

 Bagnall (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.). — "Rudiments 

 of Chemistry," by Temple Orme (same publishers). — " History 

 of the German Language" (same publishers). — "Kafir Folk- 

 Lore" (same publishers).— "The Rainband," by J. Rand 

 Capon (London: E. D. Stanford). — "Catalogue of Palaeozoic 

 Plants" by Robert Kidson (London: British Museum). — 

 " British Petrography," part 2, by J. J. Harris Teall, F.G.S. — 

 — "The Scientific Enquirer."—" The Journal of Conchology." 

 —"The Illustrated Science Monthly." — " The American 

 Florist."— "The American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 

 — " Bulletins of the U.S. Geological Survey," Nos. 7 to 14. 

 — "The Botanical Gazette." — " Cosmos." — " Science." — "The 

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

 Rochdale Field Naturalists' Journal."— " Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes." — "Notarisia, Commentarium Phycologicum." 

 — "The Garner." — "The Naturalist."— " The Midland 

 Naturalist." — "Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club." — 

 " The American Naturalist." &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from : 

 G. C. E.— F. C. F.— S. J. McL— H. G.-W. A. T— W. A. H. 

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

 —Rev. T. R.-A. V.— G. R.— S. C. S.-P.— G. F. B.— 



E. B. L. B.— T. D. A. C— F. W.— VV. S. P. -Dr. J. F.— 



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

 M. D.— I. G.-C. C— J. W. W.— W. T.— E. B. T.— W. B. G. 

 -H. B. U.— R. M.-G. B.— C M. V.-W. K.— M. A. H.- 

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

 j. w.— \V. M. P.-G. E. D.— J. B.-D. B.-H. E.— W. F. C. 

 — H. R. H— W. T. T.-P. K.— W. H. W.— H. D.-G. R. jun. 

 — F. H. H.— F. W. W.— H. P. M.— E. W.— E. S. C— W. E. W. 

 _F. H.— W. H. K.— A. K.— J. D. M.— F. G. F.— Dr. B.— 

 C. C. jun.— F. W. W.-A. B.-C. P.— T. F. U.-W. W. B.— 

 A. P.— W. H. P.— W. E. H.— W. H.— H. L. E.— W. R.— 

 W. S. H.— W. O. J.— I. A.— P. P.— J..E. L.— J. H. T.— 

 W -S. A.— W. L. W. E.— Rev. I. H. K.— H. H.— &c &c. 



