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HA RD WICKE S SCIENCE- G OS SIP. 



Wanted, parts 5, 9, and 12 of vol. i. of the "Journal of 

 Conchology." Exchange British shells, micro slides, or offers 

 requested.— J. W. Cundall, Carrville, Alexandra Park, Redland, 



Bri-tol. . , a . . , ,. 



For exchange, most gorgeous exotic butterflies, including 

 Morpho Cypris, Morpho Menelaus, Omithoptera Darsius, 

 Papilio Polyctor, Papilio Hector, Apatura Laurentia, and 

 about forty others in papers ; also wings of Morpho Cypris, 

 Menelaus, etc., for microscopic purposes.— Joseph Anderson, 

 hm., Aire Villa, Chichester, Sussex. 



L. C, 7th ed., offered, 89, 133, 135. 150, 169, 174, 236, 238, 

 245, 261, 350, 406, 532, 534, 575.626, 627, 634, 810 ,812, 823, 856, 

 m:, 933, 1056, 1124, 1128, 1142, 1304, 1349. M82, 1503, 1615, 

 1646. Many desiderata.— W. S. Harrison, 15 Park Place East, 



Sunderland. . . . , . , . 



Wanted parts 1 to 10, and 15 to 21, both inclusive, of the 

 *' English Illustrated Magazine. '— L. Francis, 34 Brunswick 

 Terrace, Grosvenor Park, Camberwell, S.E. 



Will exchange 6 vols, of " Design and Work," for vols, of 

 the Chandos Classics (library edition), or offers in books.— 

 L. Francis, 34 Brunswick Terrace, Grosvenor Park, Camber- 

 well S.E. 



First 15 parts of Cassell's " Our Own Country," for other 

 books of equal value treating on literature, scienre, or art.— 

 L. Francis, 34 Brunswick Terrace, Grosvenor Patk, Camber- 

 well S.E. 



Will exchange Dec. 1885, and Jan., Feb., March, and 

 April (18S6) numbers of " Knowledge," for the December (1885) 

 and January (1886) numbers of" Nature."— J. E. Gore, Bally- 

 sodare, co. Sligo, Ireland. _ 



British birds' eggs: advertiser wishes to correspond with 

 a collector in North Britain with a view to exchange specimens. 

 — W. Gyngell, Wellington, Somerset. 



Offered, cocoons (alive, healthy) of Promethia, foreign 

 beetles and eggs, for rare old foreign stamps and British birds' 

 eges.— John Clapperton, Bridge Street, Galashiels. _ 



" Records of School of Mines," parts t and 2, vol. 1., bound 

 in cloth, for fossils from London Clay.— Owen Rees, 59 Sand- 

 brook Road, Stoke Newington, N. 



" Science-Gossip" for 1866, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872 

 bound and 1882 to date unbound; also a large number of 

 British and foreign shells and micro-slides. Wanted, books by 

 Ruskin, Hamerton, etc., or offers.— S. C. Cockerell, 5 Priory 

 Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Littorina a-stuarii, Jeff., offered for any other local species 

 of marine, land, or freshwater shells.— W. Jordan, Cockfield, 

 Sudbury, Suffolk. . 



"America Revisited," by Sala, full of humorous cuts; 

 ""I've Been a-Gipsying," by George Smith, illustrated ; 

 Forrest's " Rock Sculptures on Rombald's Moor," pamphlet 

 with lithographs, rare ; MS. list of shells of Wakefield brought 

 down to 1886 ; pair of crossbills alive ; Planorbis corneus alive, 

 for natural history books.— Geo. Roberts, Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



Offered: herbarium specimens of marine Algae, Bostrychia 

 (Cystocarps and Tetra'pores), Helminthora, Seirospora, etc. 

 Wanted Nemalion, Helminthocladia, etc.— T. H. Buffham, 

 ComelyBank Road, Walthamstow._ _ 



Wanted Cooke's "British Fungi." Vv ill give Dr. Buchner s 

 "Man in the Past, Present, and Future."— J. W. Williams, 

 D.Sc, 27 Corinne Road, Tufnell Park , N. 



Wanted Cooke's " Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould. Will 

 give Schafer's " Fssentials of Histology."— J. W. Williams, 

 D.Sc., 27 Corinne Road, Tufnell Park, N. 



Roscoe's " Chemistry," Jones' "Junior Practical Chemistry, 

 Tilden's " Introduction to Chemical Philosophy" ("Text-Book 

 of Science"), and Cooke's " British Fungi" (coloured plates), 

 for shells or fossils.— Robert Cairns, The Grove, Currier Lane, 

 Ashton-under-Lyne. . 



Exotic butterflies : many fine and rare species for exchange. 

 Collectors please send duplicates and desiderata.— J. C Hudson, 

 Railway Teirace, Cross Lane, near Manchester. 



Two micro slides for each of the following numbers of 

 Science-Gossip: Nos. 4, April, 1865 ; 38, Feb., 40, April, 1868 ; 

 53, May, 57, Sept., 1869; 66, June, 71, Nov., 1870; 74, Feb., 

 75, March, 1871 : 85, Jan., 95, Nov., 96, Dec, 1872 ; and 126, 

 June, 1875.— Samuel M. Malcolmson, M.D., 55 Great Victoria 

 Street, Belfast. . . 



Want ed, one or two specimens of obsidian implements , a 

 liberal and varied exchange offered.— Edward Lovett, West 

 i'.irton House, Outram Road, Croydon. 



Wanted, a really good \ objective ; will give in exchange a 

 first-class o'xyhydrogen microscope for attachment to lantern 

 front, has three powers, rack-work, etc., in mahogany box with 

 lork.— John James Stead, Heckmondwike. 



Wanted, unmounted microscopic material, viz. : any rare 

 insects preserved in weak spirit, micro fungi or Foraminifera 

 (British or foreign), of as many species as possible in exchange 

 for live microscopic objects, viz.: Hydra viridis, Mehccrta 

 ringens, Desmids, and other pond-life as obtainable.— W. H. 

 Pratt, 49 Dryden Street, Nottingham. _ 



What offers in books (history preferred) in exchange for 

 " Engineering " for May to October, 1885, twenty-six numbers, 

 including Inventions double number, and Science-Gossip, 

 March to December, 1884? The whole in clean condition.— 

 G. Stanton, Darwood Place, St. Ives, Hunts. 



Wanted, natural history books; microtome; also book, 

 " Ed^eworth (M.P.) on Pollen." Will give in exchange first- 

 class micro slides. — W. S. Anderson, 7 Granby Street, Ilkeston. 



Will send two dozen varieties of animal hair in exchanee for 

 other unmounted objects. — A. Harvey Williams, Hythe, Kent. 



Science-Gossip for 1865, 1868; " Quekett Journal," vol. i. ; 

 "The Microscope," Hogg (new edition); "Natural History 

 Review,'' 1865 ; " Buffon's Natural History," W. Smellie, 1828 ; 

 " Valentine's Knife." Wanted, Science-Gossip, 1866, 1869-72, 

 I 875-i8-9; "Naturalists Library" (Jardine), odd vols.; good 

 3-in. and ^-in. objectives ; diatom material ; Newman's " Butter- 

 flies and Moths," or offers.— C. S. Bouttell, 7 Irene Road, 

 Fulham, S.W. 



Well-blown eggs of rare British and American birds for 

 others not in collection. — J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, near Sunder- 

 land. 



Egg cabinet to exchange for English or foreign nests or eggs, 

 photos of American Indians, Catlin's or other works on American 

 Indians (not Schoolcraft's). Particulars of cabinet from — 

 George A. Widdas, Woodsley View, Leeds. 



A good {J micro objective, 30 of angle, by Wheeler ; as good 

 as new; offers requested. — T. B. Forty, Market Square, Buck- 

 ingham. 



What offers for three dozen microscopical slides and cabinet ? 

 Desiderata: Pisidium fontinale, I'alvata piscina! is, Helix 

 lapicida, vertigo, Cyclostoma elegans, etc. — W. E. Collings, 

 Springfield Place, Leeds. 



What offers for Woodward's " Geology of England and 

 Wales ;"also "Manual of Mollusca "1 Wanted, Eocene fossils. 

 George E. East, jun., 10 Basinghall Street, London, E.C- 



Splendid model horizontal engine, copper boiler, cylinder 

 (2 in. by 1 in.), numerous cocks, etc. ; cost £8. What offers '.' 

 40-inch bicycle. — C. T. Fennessy, Pallasgreen, co. Limerick. 



Wanted, plants of Cypripedium spectabile or Cypripedium 

 insignc, or other cool orchids. Will give in exchange British 

 and exotic Lepidoptera and birds' skins. Also wanted, No. 2 of 

 " Knowledge ;" will exchange Lepidoptera. — Joseph Anderson, 

 jun., Aire Villa, Chichester, Sussex. 



Science-Gossip for 1872-1875, bound in two vols. ; Nichol- 

 son's "Advanced Text-book of Zoology" (pub. 6s.), nearly 

 new; Youman's "First Book of Botany " (300 illustrations) ; 

 Robertson's " Daily Readings in Natural Science ;" Dr. W. J. 

 Hooker's " British Flora " (pub. 1835, but clean and complete) ; 

 " Journal of Naturalist." In exchange for ornithological vols, 

 of Jardine's "National Library." — J. H. Keen, 18 Church 

 Street, Spitalfields, E. 



Scalaria pretiosa and many other rare shells. What offers? 

 Micro apparatus or slides prelerred. — J. E., 3 Eton Grove, 

 Dacre Park, Lee, S.E. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 "An Intermediate Physical and Descriptive Geography" 

 (London: Edward Stanford). — "Synopsis of the Natural 

 Orders of British Flowering Plants," by J. W Oliver (London : 

 Simpkin & Marshall). — "A Photograph, and How to Take It," 

 by A. A. Wood (London: E. G.Wood, Cheapside). — "Lecture 

 Notes and Problems in Sound, Light, and Heat," by C. Bird 

 (London: Relf Bros.). — "Journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society" (April). — "Graphic Microscopy," No. 1, by E. T. 

 Draper.—" Transactions of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' 

 Club," 1884-85. — "The Scientific Enquirer," No. 3.—" Report 

 of Bath Microscopical Society." — " Journal of Microscopy and 

 Natural Science " (April). — "Illustrated Science Monthly." — 

 "Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society." — 

 " Science." — "Journal of the New York Microscopical Society." 

 — "The Canadian Entomologist." — "The Amateur Photo- 

 grapher." — " Ben Brierley's Journal." — " The Rochdale Field 

 Naturalists' Journal." — " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." — 

 "The Garner."— "The Naturalist."— " Botanical Gazette."— 

 "The Victorian Naturalist," Nos. 7, 8, 9, to.— "The Midland 

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

 — "The American Naturalist." — " Proceedings of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia." — "American Florist." — 

 "Sixteenth Annual Report Wellington College Natural History 

 Society." &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from : 

 S M. P.-S. H.— W. K. M.— J. W. W.— B. H— F. W. S.— 

 T. H. L.— A. W. H.— H. H.— S. A. B.— D. D.— A. G. McR. 

 _A P.— D. B.-W. B. R.— W. E. C— W. H.-F. M. H.— 

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

 _T. W.— W. H.— J. E. L.-F. M. H.-W. S. H.— R. F. M. 

 _ F . K.— W. F.-G. A. G— J. A. jun.— A. H.— W. S. C T. 

 -T D. A. C— F. C— E. L.— P. H. S— Dr. H. W.— H. U.— 

 S . F ._j. E. G.-W. G.-W. J.-A. T. E.— J. C— W. B. C— 



0. R.— M. T. M— H. W. L.-S. C. C— G. E. T.— T. H. B.— 

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

 W. E. C.-G. E. E. jun.— T. B. F.— W. F. jun.-G. S.- 

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

 —A. H. W.— C. S. B.-I. T. T. R.-M. E. T.— A. H. W.— 

 S. A. B.-R. C.-S. M. M.-J. W. W.-J. L.— J. J. S.— 



1. H. K.— J. A. jun.— C T. F.— E. F. S.-J. E.— O. S.— 

 F. R. L.— &c &c 



