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HARD WICKE ' S S CIE NCE - G O SSIP. 



Aquaria Desiderata. — If any of your readers may be 

 disposed to cultivate in an aquarium Vallisncria spiralis, I, 

 having some to spare, will forward with pleasure plant on receipt 

 of address and stamp. — B. M. Watkins, Treddow, Hentland, 

 Ross, Herefordshire. 



A. B.— Apply to Mr. Alfred Allen, 1 Cambridge Place, Bath, 

 for all information respecting the Postal Microscopical Society. 

 Mr. Allen is now Secretary, and also Editor of the " Scientific 

 Enquirer." 



S. Smith. — The plants are as follows : 1, Lousewort (Pcdicu- 

 laris sylvatica) ; 2, wood sanicle (Sauicula Europwd) ; 3, guelder 

 rose {Viburnum opulus) ; and, 4, butterfly orchis [Habcnaria 

 bi/olia). 



S. A. B. — The bumble-bees you sent up appear to have been 

 partly devoured by field-mice. 



A Correspondent very wisely suggests that we should get. 

 writers to give their various methods of mounting and prepar- 

 ing their various specimens, such as animal parasites, etc. Will 

 our friends take the hint? 



V. A. L. — The addresses are as follows: "Journal of the 

 New York Microscopical Society," 12 College Place, New 

 York ; " The American Naturalist," Messrs. Macalla and 

 Stavely, 9 Dock Street, Philadelphia. 



T. G. B. — The best means of getting rid of the Aphides in 

 your conservatory, would be by using Hughes' Aphicide. It is 

 sold in is. 6d. bottles with directions, and can be easily applied 

 by means of the spray to the under surfaces of the leaves, etc. 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, sets of eggs : long-tailed tit, white wagtail, land- 

 rail, sandpipers, curlews, snipes, etc., for sets of stonechat, 

 Ray's wagtail, ring-ouzel, twite, lesser redpole, goldfinch, etc. — 

 James Ellison, Steeton, Leeds. 



A carefully selected series of micro fungi on leaves in situ, 

 accurately named and localised. What offers in slides, shells, 

 plants, coins or otherwise? — Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., 

 Worksop. 



Teesdalia and other British plants in exchange for other 

 natural history objects. — Hilderic Friend, Worksop. 



British mollu=ca, nearly 400 species and varieties, well 

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



Wanted, " Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc," Nos. 1-30, 47, 51, 55. 

 56, 62, 74-76, 87, 129, or any of these, in exchange for geological 

 works, fossils, or British shells. " Midland Naturalist,'' com- 

 plete set for disposal.— F. G. S., 2, The Polygon, Clifton, 

 Bristol. 



For exchange, a few good examples of Clausilia biplicaia 

 from Putney, and of Pupa sccale from Leckhampton. Wanted, 

 Helix pisana, Zonitcs Draparnaldi, Testacella Maugei, with 

 their respective localities ; also Balea, Azeca, other Pupae, Ver- 

 tigoes, or offers. — Wilfred Mark Webb, 31 Aynhoe Road, 

 Brook Green, W. 



Wanted, a swarm of Carniolan bees. Will give in exchange 

 twenty-three first numbers of Cassell's " Dore's Dante " and 

 cuttings of good double and single geraniums and fuchsias, and 

 some greenhouse ferns. — MissE. Smith, Piperstown, Drogheda, 

 Ireland. 



Wanted, the " London Catalogue " of British mosses, second 

 edition. — James Sinns, 3 Fairfield Street, Bolton. 



American moths, butterflies, and insects; imagoes of Lunar, 

 Imperials, Cecropia, Promethia, and Polyphemus, eggs, larvae 

 and cocoons in season, rare and characteristic fossils of the two 

 American Silurians, for European moths, butterflies, insects, 

 and cocoons and chrysalides of all kinds, and good microscopical 

 mounts, etc. — H. A. Furniss, 56 Orange Street, Indianapolis, 

 Ind., U.S.A. 



British land and freshwater shells, including Pal. contecta, 

 V. pellucida, Z. crystallinus, H. pomatia, H. arbitstorum var. 

 flavescens, H. cantiana var. rubescens, H.pulchella, H. lapicida. 

 Car. minimum, Cy. elegans, etc. Desiderata : Pal. vivipara, 

 Plan, nitidus, H. revelata, H. scricea, H. lamcllata, and 

 foreign Gasteropoda, especially Bulimi. — G. T. Rope, Blaxhall, 

 Wickham Market, Suffolk. 



Offered, fifteen odd parts of " Geologist " (fine plates), good 

 natural history and other books, foreign stamps (many rare), 

 birds' eggs, including siskin, brambling, cirl bunting, etc., for 

 well-set named specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera or 

 store boxes. — '1'. Mackie, 66 Barking Road, Canning Town, E. 



Wanted, a good microscope, with not many accessories ; 

 state full particulars.— H., 8 Tothill Street, S.W. 



Side-blown eggs of willow wren, gold crest, sedge warbler, 

 meadow pipit, skylark, wheatear, Piet and Ray's wagtail, mag- 

 pie, rooks, hooded crow, ringdove, partridge, red grouse, lap- 

 wing, curlew, oyster catcher, coot, mallard, teal, and eider 

 ducks, artic tern, black-headed gull, grebe, cormorants, black 

 guillemot. Wanted, duplicates in exchange. — A. Kelly, 5 Canal 

 Lane, Aberdeen. 



Fossils from chalk, Thanet sands, Woolwich bed-, etc., in 

 exchange for English silver or copper coins, medals, and tokens, 

 or rare foreign siamps. — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Two dozen mahogany slips for mounting opaque microscopical 

 objects. Wanted, lumps of chalk containing Foraminifera, or 

 anything useful to a microscopist.— Fred Beddow, Derby. 



Duplicate slides of Foraminifera, diatoms, starches, hairs, 

 etc., to exchange for named single species of Foraminifera, or 

 will give two slides for one insect mounted without pressure. — 

 Edward Halkyard, The Firs, Knutsford, Cheshire. 



Figuier's " Reptiles and Birds " to exchange for Lubbock's 

 " Ants and Bees," or book containing illustrations of the Dip- 

 tera.— Edward Halkyard, The Firs, Knutsford, Cheshire. 



"Entomologist" for 1882-1885, " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine " for 1883 (unbound), Lubbock's "Ants, Bees, and 

 Wasps," Cox's "Handbook of Coleoptera" (2 vols.), and Tay- 

 lor's " Aquarium," all quite new, in exchange for " Carpenter 

 on the Microscope," Huxley's "Lay Sermons," Darwin's 

 " Descent of Man," other books, micro slides, or Coleoptera. — 

 A. E. J. Carter, Argyle Crescent, Portobello, N.B. 



Wanted, loan of Micro-slides for Photographic purposes. 

 Slides given in exchange. — A. B., 115 Camden Road, Tunbridge 

 Wells. 



Wanted, choice specimens of land and freshwater shells in 

 exchange for marine species. — Chas. Jefferys, Tenby. 



Wanted, all kinds of insects, especially the following. 

 Water beetles, cockchafers, wasp beetles, cardinal beetles, dor 

 beetles, glow-worms, grasshoppers, saw flies, ichneumon flies 

 and sheep-ticks, good slides of whole insects or others, in 

 exchange. — W. S. Anderson, Ilkeston. 



For piece of skin of Spotted Dog-fish cleaned and dried, 

 ready for mounting, send stamped addressed envelope to H. E. 

 Hurrell, 1 Church Plain, Great Yarmouth. 



What offers for " Science-Gossip " 1878 to 1885 ; two 

 volumes " Encyclopaedia Britannica," new ed. ; " How to Work 

 with the Microscope," Beale, new ed. ; "Natural Law in the 

 Spiritual World," Pollen, M. P. Edgeworth ; " Chemical History 

 of the Six Days of Creation," " British Sea-weeds," Lands- 

 borough ; and many other standard works, send for list to 

 F. C. King, 2 Clarendon Street, Preston, Lanes. 



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. 



" Smithsonian Report," 1884 (Washington). — " Eleventh 

 Annual Report, U. S. Geological Survey," (Washington). — 

 " Malt and Malting," by H. Slopes (London : F. W. Lyon).— 

 "Horticultural Buildings," by F. A. Fawkes (London: Son- 

 nenschein & Co.).— " Little Asker," by J. J. Wright (London : 

 Swan Sonnenschein). — " British Fungi, Lichens, etc.," by E. M . 

 Holmes and Peter Gray (London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) — 

 " British Petrography," by J. J. Harris Teall, part 6 (Birming- 

 ham, Messrs. Watson Bros.). — "On Beds of Sponge-Remains 

 in the Lower and Upper Greensand of the South of England," 

 by G. J. Hinde, Ph.D.—" History of Fossil Crocodiles,"— 

 " Literature and Nomenclature of British Fossil Crocodilia," 

 and " The Genus Notidanus," all by Mr. A. Woodward Smith. 

 — "Proceedings of American Academy." — " Report of Rugby 

 School Nat. Hist. Soc." — " The Amateur Photographer." — 

 "The Camera." — "The Scientific Enquirer" (June). — "The 

 Hoosier Naturalist."— " The Garner" (June).— "The Natu- 

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

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

 "Science." — "Journal of Conchology." — "Journal of Trenton 

 Nat. Hist. Soc." — " Belgravia." — " The Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine." — " Le Monde de la Science." — " American Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal." — "The Midland Naturalist." — ■ 

 " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." — "The American Natu- 

 ralist." — &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from: 

 C. T. M.— T. I. D.— R. S. P.— I. H. A.— M. R.— S. A. B.— 

 G. E. G— H. G.— T. W.— A. H. jun.— J. H.— A. E. J. G— 

 Dr. C. C. A.— J. J. R.— J. R.— A. E. H.— W. O.— J. T. R.— 

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

 H. B. P.— T. D. A. C— G. H.— J. M.— W. J. S.— A. K.— 

 V. A. L.-F. M. B. C— E. W.— F. S.— W. M. W.— E. S.— 

 J. S.— H. M.— S. S.— W. G. W.— J. C— S. L. M.— W. W — 

 W. W. W.— R. S. P.— W. C.— J. J. C— G. R.— J. C— H. P. 

 —A. W. H.-J. E.— J. T.— B. M. W.— H. F.— J. A. jun.— 

 C. T. H.— H. M. A.— W. S. A.— F. C. K.— H. W. K.— 

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

 — C. E. P.— H. W. K. &c. &c. &c. 



