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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Fern fronds pressed. Wanted, specimens of T. radicans, 

 H. Wilsoni, and O. vulgatitm ; have duplicates of C. montana, 

 C. alpina (one), A. lanceolatnm (several), A. Germanicum, 

 G. leptophylla. R. Po.tans, Midhurst, Springfield Road, 

 St. Leonaids-on-Sea. 



Twenty specimens of cones, including Cedrus Libanii, 

 Finns pinca, Abies spectabilis, &c., collected in 1869, having 

 attached collector's label, in perfect condition, in exchange for 

 any of Ruskin's works, 1S80 edition. — Rev. J. Buck, 87 London 

 Road, Lowestoft. 



"Report on Fauna of Liverpool Bay and Neighbouring 

 Seas, 18S6," edited by Professor Herdman, D.Sc, with ten 

 plates and two maps, price 8.?. 6d. Will exchange for good set 

 of selenites prepared for the microscope. — H. Kendall, B.A., 

 17 Marmion Road, Liverpool. 



Histological slides for exchange ; also cloth from Egyptian 

 mummy, mounted as slide, great curiosity. — R. S. Stephens, 

 25 Fordwych Road, West Hamp-tead, London, N.W. 



L. C, 7th edition, offered, 31, 57, 59, 67, 588, 595, 620, 699, 

 809, 1012/', 1024, 1043, 1149, 1287, 1288, 1417, &c, in exchange 

 for other rare British plants. — A. Sangster, Cattie, Oldmildrum, 

 N.B. 



Wanted, a secondhand cabinet to hold about 1000 slides. 

 Exchange in books or micro material. Mounts of starches, 

 human histology, &c, in exchange for insect eggs, &c. — 

 W. Grierson, The Owens College, Manchester. 



Wanted, Wood's book on Shells or Index Testaceolo- 

 gicus, or "Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign," pub- 

 lished 1828, in exchange for British shells, fossil*, minerals, 

 micro sections of Devonian corals, Polish slabs of Devon coral 

 madrepores, &c. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, 

 Teignmouth, Devon. 



Wanted, G. B. Sowerby's "Illustrated Index of British 

 Shells." Will give good exchange in fossil=, minerals, land and 

 sea shells, and other curio ities. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 

 23 Bank Street, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Microscopic slides illustrating any science in exchange for 

 apparatus, lanterns or slides, or scientific works. — S. Harrison, 

 Dalmain Road, Forest Hill. 



"Violin Making," by Ed. H. Allen; "The Stamp Col- 

 lectors' Handbook, " by E. L. Pemberton ; some good fishing- 

 tackle and a rod, never used, for zoological and micro works. 

 Wanted, Sachs' "Botany" (Trans.), Claus' "Zoology," and 

 Nicholson's " Student's Manual of Zoology." Some duckbill 

 hairs in exchange for zoological micro slides. — Miles Johnston, 

 Oban House, Balham Park Road, Balham, S.W. 



First-class microscopic slides in exchange for foraminifera, 

 diatorr.s, fungi, leaves, and other unmounted material, large or 

 small quantities. — Anderson, Ilkeston. 



Wanted, book of ladies' fancy leatherwork ; first-class micro 

 slides in exchange, any class. — Anderson, Ilkeston. 



Micro slides: a number of brilliant wings of foreign Lep:- 

 doptera and other miscellaneous slides. Exchange other goods, 

 slides, or material. — Mathie, 42 McKinlay Street, Glasgow. 



Offered, turtle bone, rhinoceros horn, snake skins, insect 

 scales, rose and bramble brand, and other unmounted objects 

 for microscope, also duplicate British land and freshwater shells. 

 Wanted, numerous British land and freshwater shells. — John 

 R. B. Masefield, Rosehill, Cheadle, Staffordshire. 



Mid containing foraminifera from Valentia, co. Kerry, in 

 exchange for similar material from other localities. — Rev. A. H. 

 Delap, Clonmel, Ireland. 



A lot of fossil shells, etc , from the Cooshaw river, offered in 

 exchange for anything microscopic. — Kilgour, 2 Ogilvie's Road, 

 Dundee, N.B. 



Packets of 1 dozen unmounted micro-material assorted, in 

 exchange for interesting slides. Wanted most mos-es, etc. in 

 fruit, spiral or other vegetable structure, rock and other hard 

 sections, good insects or parts ; not leaves, wood sections, or 

 crystals. — J. E. Read, 44 Newmarket Street, Norwich. 



Wanted Cassell's books on figure painting, animal drawing, 

 and trees, in water colour; or any other works on painting, as 

 Prout's "Landscape," by Ackerman, etc., in exchange for 

 shells, fossils, or plants. — E. R. F., 82 Abbey Street, Faver- 

 sham. 



Will Mr. David Smith, who replied to the offer of exchange 

 of E. R. F., 82 Abbey Stieet, Faversham, oblige by sending 

 his address (which he omitted) to E. R. F., as the letter E. R. F. 

 wrote to him has been returned owing to inuifficiency of 

 address. 



WELL-mounted slides of Batrachospcrnncm moniliforme in 

 fructification for exchange. — W. Stott, Lostock, Bolton. 



Wanted, to borrow, a few at a time, Cook's plates of British 

 fungi. Will pay reasonably for the loan, keep the plates clean, 

 and defray all costs. — J. Harrison, 19 Victoria Road, Bedford. 



Offered \i packets of unmounted objects for other un- 

 mounted material. — W. Sim, Gourdas, Kyvie, N.B. 



What offers for two years' "Northern Microscopist "? 

 — H. Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



Injected tissues from rabbit, cat, guinea pig, snake, frog, 

 mouse, monkey, etc., e : ther in bulk or ;ections, for insect or 

 botanical slides. — Henry Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



DuUBLE-stained, tran-sections of dahlia, mimulus and lily, 

 antlers, stigmas, and pollen, of malvaceas, and other good slides, 

 offered in exchange for other good mounts or good unmounted 

 material ; offers to — P. Kilgour, 2 Ogilvie's Road, Dundee, N.B. 



Latham's "Ethnology of the British Is'ands," 8vo., 1852 ; 

 "Reign of Law," "Argyll," People's Ed. (sixteenth) ; "Rock- 

 sculptures on Rombald's Moor," pamphlet, scarce ; MS. list of 

 Wakefield shells, for conchological books or pamphlets. Gray's 

 "Turton's Manual" wanted. — Geo. Roberts, Lofthouse, near 

 Wakefield. 



Wantep, John's "British Birds in their Haunts," " Familiar 

 Wild Birds," birds' eggs side-blown, Lepidoptera well stt, com- 

 mon species. Exchange well set Lepidoptera, stuffed birds 

 cased, well preserved.— J. Bates, 10 Orchard Terrace, Welling- 

 borough. 



Will exchange for other books on botany, the following : — 

 Loudon's "Gardener's Magazine," 9 vols., complete ; " Flori- 

 cultural Cabinet" (coloured plates), 13 vols. ; Loudon's "En- 

 cyclopedia of Gardening ;" Maund's " Botanic Garden " (several 

 parts) ; Linnaeus, " Flora Lapponica," 1792 ; M'Intosh's "Prac- 

 tical Gardener ;" Donovan's " British Insects " (coloured plates) ; 

 "Magazine of Botany and Gardening;" Gordon's "Pinetum" 

 [supplement); "A New Orchard and Garden House " (Black 

 Letter), by Lawson, 1623 ; Abercrombie's " Practical Gardener;" 

 Balfour's " Elements of Botany ;" Wakefield's " Botany ;" Cul- 

 pepper's "Herbal;" "Popular Geography of Plants;" New- 

 man's "Grammar of Entomology;" Withaung's "British 

 Botany," 4 vols., complete ; Hooker's " British Flora ;" Rivers' 

 " On the Rose ;" Miller's "Gardener's Dictionary." Wanted, 

 Loudon's " Arboretum," etc. ; or works on trees, shrubs, etc. — 

 A. D. Webster, Llandegai, Bangor. 



Wanted, Howes' "Atlas of Biology," also a double or treble 

 nose-piece, with universal screw for microscope ; good exchange 

 given. — H. W. Parritt, 103 Camden Street, Camden Town, N.W. 



Swiss Plants — Dr. B. (care of editor of Science-Gossip) has 

 a magnificent herbarium of dried plants, correctly named, to 

 dispose of. Price is. each, in small or large numbers. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 "United States Fish Commission: Report for 1883" (Wash- 

 ington : Government Printing Office). — " Poets in the Garden," 

 by May Crommelin (London: T. Fisher Unwin). — "Micro- 

 scopic Fungi," by M. C. Cooke, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S., fifth 

 edition (London: W.H.Allen & Co.). — "Handbook of His- 

 torical Geology, ' by A. J. Jukes-Browne, B.A., F.G.S. 

 (London: George Bell & Son.-). — "British Fungi," by Rev. 

 John Stevenson (Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood 

 it Sons). • — " Studies in Comparative Anatomy. iii. The 

 Structure and Life-History of the Cockroach," Miall and Denny 

 (London: Lovell Reeve & Co.; Leeds: Richard Jackson). — 

 "The Goldfield of Victoria." Reports of the Mining Registrars 

 for June 1886 (Melbourne: Government Printer). — "Canadian 

 Entomologist," vol. xviii. — "The Rochester Naturalist." — 

 "Transactions of the Hertford-hire Natural History Society," 

 vol. iv. parts 1-3. — " Liverpool Geological Association," Annual 

 Report, 1886. — " Bedford Park Natural History and Gardening 

 Society." — "Journal of Microscopy" (October 1886). — "Notes 

 on the Glacial Geology of the District around Loch Sween, 

 Argyllshire," by Henry W. Crosskey, LL.D., F.G.S.—" Vox 

 Clamantis : the Poet Laureate," by Eric Mackay. — " How 

 Plants Climb," by H. W. S. Warsley - Benison, F.L.S.— 

 "Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum," by Charles Marvin. 

 — " A Sketch of the History of the Rivers and Denudation of 

 West Kent, etc.," by F. C. J. Spurrell. — Cole's " Studies in 

 Microscopical Science." — "Journal of Royal Microscopical 

 Society." — "Proceedings of American Academy." — "The 

 Amateur Photographer." — "The Camera." — "The Scientific 

 Enquirer." — "The Garner." — "The Naturalist." — "The Bo- 

 tanical Gazette." — " Journal of the New York Microscopical 

 Society." — " Belgravia." — "The Gentleman's Magazine."— 

 " Le Monde de la Science." — " American Monthly Microscopi- 

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

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



Communications received up to the 13TH ult. from : 

 E. A. S.— H. A.— Dr. R. L.— W. R.— W. C. F.— J. A. F.— 

 R. P.— J. S.— F. E. R— J. B.— J. S.- C. S. W.— H. S. L. N. H. 

 —J. H. M.— G. F. G— G. A. B.— L. L.— W. L'A. C— E. L— 

 J. VV. S.— M. A.— J. W. C— R. H. N. B.— H. M.— H. W. K. 

 — C. H. W.— E. W. M— D. B.— G. A. G— A. T.— E. B.— 

 J. A. H.-A. W. P.— J. H. L.— J. B. B.- M. L. S.— W. L. W. E. 

 — M. F.— Dr. P.— E. A. P.— T. W.— K. H.— R. S. S.— Rev. J. B. 

 — H. C. E. V.— F. G. J.— A. J. R. S.— J. J.— W. G— W. C— 

 T. D. A. C— D. B.— A. L— T. J. G.— J. H. A.— A. P.— C. R. 

 —Rev. A. H. D.— J. R. B. M.— \V. M.— W. S. A.— S. H.— 

 M. J.— W. S— H. V.— R. P.— H. J. B.— E. R. F.— W. D. W 

 —P. K.— J. H— W. S— G. R.— J. E. R.-J. B — J. W. K.— 

 M. D. -W. A. S.— &c &c. 



