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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



A few specimens of land shells from Madeira and Porto 

 Santo for exchange. Wanted, land, freshwater, or marine 

 British or foreign shells. Write for list and state offers to 

 F. W., Drapers' College, Tottenham. 



Exchange, duplicates, Suffumata, Procellata, Affinitata, 

 Decolorata, Geoffrella. Many common species wanted. — W. 

 Macmillan, Castle Cary, Somerset. 



Wanted, British marine shells. Exchange shells or micro 

 slides. — J. T. Lightwood, Hope House, Lytham. 



Wanted, Rye's "British Beetles," and Staveley's "British 

 Spiders." Exchange shells, micro slides, or books. — J. T. 

 Lightwood, Hope House, Lytham. 



For exchange, "The Naturalists' World," ist vol. ; Science- 

 Gossip, June to December, 1885, with plates, perfectly clean 

 and in very good condition. Desiderata, Pisidium, Valvata, 

 Bulimus, Pupa, Vertigo, Balea perversa, Acfiatina acicula, 

 Cyclostoma elegans. — C. H. Pierson, 16 Brunswick Place, 

 Leeds. 



Send stamped addressed envelope for leaf of Dcutzia scabra, 

 showing stellate hairs on both surfaces, dried and ready for 

 mounting. — H. E. Hurrell, 1 Church Plain, Great Yarmouth. 



Wanted, stone implements, coins, flint gun, or any kind of 

 old armour, in exchange for English and foreign minerals, 

 geological specimens, bison bones of the Pleistocene period, 

 perfect and rare.— G. W. Wood, Castleton, Derbyshire. 



Wanted, to correspond with a worker in Ascidians and 

 Sponges. — Geo. Merritt, 282 Commercial Road, London, E. 



440 British wild plants, correctly named and localised. 

 Many rare ; some very rare. What offers? — C. A. O., 7 Caven- 

 dish Terrace, Wellesley Road, Torquay, 



Foreign butterflies : collectors having duplicates, especially 

 Papilionidas, please send li^ts at once, in return for my new 

 one just ready. Correspondence — in English, where possible, 

 would greatly oblige. — J. C. Hudson, Railway Terrace, Cross 

 Lane, Manchester. 



Exchange "Roxburgh Ballads," with quaint cuts, as new ; 

 " Compendium of the English Flora," 2nd ed., 1844; "Reign 

 of Law," People's ed. ; Lee's "Introduction to Botany," 1765. 

 Fresh plants in flower of Potentilla Norvegica for natural 

 history books or shells. — George Roberts, Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



For exchange, a small microscope, good repair, and classical 

 books. List on sending stamped envelope. Wanted, larger 

 microscope or Shuckard's " British Bees." — G. F. G.llett, the 

 School House, Norwich. 



Will exchange Turner's "Anatomy" and Nicholson's 

 " Zoology " (latest editions, new) for Sachs' " Botany," or books 

 on grasses, mosses, fungi. — G. A. Grierson, 74 Market Place, 

 Sheffield. 



Wanted, named Irish, Scotch, and other British mosses 

 and Hepaticse. Will give land and freshwater shells, or offers. 

 — C. T. Musson, 23 Mapperley Hill, Nottingham. 



Wanted, books on British mosses. Exchange or cash. 

 Offers. — C. T. Musson, 23 Mapperley Hill, Nottingham. 



Wanted, a good mount of Noctiluca -miliaris, fluid pre- 

 ferred. Good exchange or cash.— C. H. Griffith, Turgiss, 

 Winchfield, Hants. 



Geological collection ; will exchange whole or in part for 

 books on chemistry or apparatus.— H. B. Stocks, 41 Moorfield 

 Villas, Halifax. 



What offers in mounted slides or micro material for Science- 

 Gossip for 1885, unbound.— Geo. J. Wightman, 1 St. Mary's 

 Hill, Stamford, Lincolnshire. 



This season's eggs, sideblown one hole, separate or in 

 clutches : ring-ouzel, lesser redpole, twite, stonechat. Ex- 

 change for others same value data. — Jas. Ellison, Steeton, 

 Leeds. 



Offered, some vols, of Jardine's " Naturalist's Library," 

 and other natural history books. Wanted, Wood's (larger) or 

 Cassell's (Duncan's) " Natural History," in vols, or parts. — 

 J. H. K., 18 Church Street, Commercial Street, E. 



Slides of Hczmatopinus bovinus, wing of Urania rhipheus, 

 inner and outer lining of cocoon of Hylotoma ros&, for polari- 

 scope, and many others, in exchange for other slides. — Rev. 

 J. Stroud Williams, Livingstone Villa, Iffley Road, Oxford. 



Wanted, ova of any of the hawkmoths, or Bombycidae, &c. 

 I will endeavour to make a suitable return.— R. Laddiman, 

 Hellesdon Road, Norwich 



Wanted, some good polished specimens of flint coral madre- 

 pores from the island of Antigua. Also small recent corals, 

 not larger than a man's fist, and any curious shells from Japan 

 and Ceylon. Will give polished slabs of Devon corals, Haldon 

 fossils, and other varieties, British sea-shells, land and fresh- 

 water shells, minerals, micro sections, &c. — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Wanted, mounted sections of corals in flint. Will give three 

 unmounted fine sections of Devon coral for each slide sent. — 

 A. J. R. Sclater, Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Small compound achromatic microscope, about i-in. power, 

 ball and socket stand, in case, complete. Wanted, botanical 

 books, phanerogams, or mosses.— W. P. Hamilton, 2 Underdale 

 Villas, Shrewsbury. 



Ten or twelve years of Science-Gossip. What offers for 

 the same in coins or rare foreign shells ? — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Micro slides to exchange for books, as "Good Words," 

 " Quiver," Dickens's Works, and one on ferns. — W. S. Ander- 

 son, Ilkeston. 



Wanted, larvae of any of the silk moths. Exchange in 

 insects, birds' skins, or eggs. — S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park 

 Museum, Huddersfield. 



For exchange, 3 vols. Tennant's " British Zoology," quad- 

 rupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, Crustacea, mollusca, testacea, 225 

 plates, old edition, 8vo. Wanted, Hooker's or other " British 

 Flora." — P. F. G., 80 Leathwaite Road, Clapham Common, 

 London. 



Have a copy of Tate and Blake's "Yorkshire Lias," pub- 

 lished at 28^., which I will be pleased to exchange for other 

 geological books of equal value, or for very good fossils. — 

 R. Cairns, The Grove, Currier Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne. 



Geological Tour. — A gentleman would like to hear of 

 another who would join him in the above. Very fossiliferous 

 locality. Start end of July. —Geologist, 7 Wharton Street, W.C. 



Wanted, Morris's " Nests and Eggs of British Birds," m 

 exchange for Kirby's " European Butterflies and Moths," in 

 61 numbers unbound, and for the most part uncut. — D. A. 

 Keogh, 7 Castle Terrace, Broughty Ferry. 



L. C. 7th ed. Offered 41, 812, 1327, etc. ; many desiderata. 

 — Wm. A. Clarke, The Grove, Chippenham, Wilts. 



Micro slides offered, Hepaticae, freshwater Algae, marine Poly- 

 zoa, spiders, parts ofinsects, hair of sea-mouse, etc. Wants, insect 

 and other good slides, old vols, of Science-Gossip, also books 

 on spiders and inseets. — Lists to W. E. Green, 24 Triangle, 

 Bristol. 



Wanted, the tops of Hyoscyamus niger (about six inches) 

 when in perfect flower — a dozen or two. — Mr. Higginson, 

 Newferry, Birkenhead. 



Wanted, large harmless water-beetles {Hydrous picetis), 

 also water-spiders for aquaria. Exchange for Vallisneria 

 plants, &c. — Miss Lyon, 73 London Street, Reading. 



Wanted, in exchange for beautiful Red Crag fossils, eggs of 

 the following : Golden eye, great northern diver, black- 

 throated diver, little auk, green cormorant, gannet, Sandwich 

 tern, whiskered tern, gull billed tern, Fulmar petrel, great 

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

 pipit, mountain finch, lesser redpole, mountain linnet, chough, 

 raven, rook, common swift, wood-grouse, little ringed plover. — 

 E. H. B., care of Editor of Science-Gossip. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Her Majesty's Colonies" (London : W. Clowes & Sons). — 

 " Bright's Guide to Bournemouth." — " Holiday Notes in East 

 Anglia."— " The Rotifera." by Dr. C. T. Hudson and P. H. 

 Gosse, part iv. (London: Longmans & Co.). — "British Petro- 

 graphy," by J. J. Harris Teall, part v. (Birmingham: >Watson 

 Bros.). — " Ninth Annual Report of Hackney Microscopical 

 Society." — "Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society" 

 ( lune) — "The Scientific Enquirer" (June). — "The Hoosier 

 Naturalist."— " The Garner" (June).— "The Naturalist."— 

 "Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club." — "Air and 

 Water and Soil, as affecting Health," by W. J. Simmons. — 

 "The Botanical Gazette." — "Ben "Brierley's Journal." — 

 "Illustrated Science Monthly." — "Journal of the New York 

 Microscopical Society." — " Science." — " Bulletins of the U. S. 

 Geol. Survey," 15 to 23. — "Journal of Conchology." — " New 

 York Medico-Legal Journal." — "Journal of Trenton Nat. Hist. 

 Soc." — "Belgravia." — "The Gentleman's Magazine." — "Le 

 Monde de la Science." — "American Monthly Microscopical 

 Journal." — "The Midland Naturalist." — " Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes." — "The American Naturalist." — &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from : 

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 —J. W.— G. F. G.— G. F. H.— U. J. S.— C. T. M.— C. H. G. 

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 W. B. C— F. R.— G. I. W.— S. M.-F. E.-M. G.— J. E. N. 

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 G. W. W.— E. D.— T. G. T.— W. M. H.— G. R. T. F.— 

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

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 C. A. O.— M. H. R.— H. E. H.— H. M.— W. B. D— T. W.— 

 F. W.— W. E. H.— I. A. F.-J. E. B.— W. F. jun.— G. A. G. 

 —J. E.— W. M.— I. H. K.— W. R. H.— C. P.— R. L.— J. S. W. 

 — H. M. A.— A. J. R.— J. F.-R. A. R. B.-W. M.— P. T. R. 

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