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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Several numbers of the " Transactions and Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society " for exchange. Wanted Lyeli's 

 "Principles of Geology." A. King, lo De Crespigny Park, 

 Denmark Hill, S.E. 



Will give four vols. "Races of Mankind," handsomely bound 

 in two (half calf), for latest edition of Sowerby's "Wild 

 Flowers" (coloured plates). — Edwin E. Turner, High Street, 

 Witham, Essex. 



Wanted Quekett, Carpenter, Beale, or some other good work 

 on microscopic subjects. Will give 2-inch English objective (no 

 name). — E. Withington, Balliol, Oxford. 



Pupa umbilkata, var. alba, in exchange for other specimens of 

 land and freshwater shells. Micro slides of grain gold, silver, 

 and copper (pure), well mounted, slides in ex., for other micro 

 slides of interest.— W. H. Boland, 23 Paxton Road, All Saints, 

 Birmingham. 



Wanted, 6 small Venus chione, 2 large trilobites, 6 good 

 fossils from Black Down, 6 fossil crabs, any bed, 6 good fossil 

 shark teeth. Will give for each of the above, 12 British shells, 

 rare sorts, or 6 to 8 beautifvd Polish slabs of Devon corals, worth 

 \s. to \s. dd. each.— A. J. R. Slater, Bank Street, Teignmouth, 

 Devon. 



Wantcd, recent British or foreign shells, land or water, in 

 exchange for about 100 British birds' eggs. — T. J., care of 

 F. Wotton, 13 Moira Crescent, Cardiff. 



Foreign- shells wanted. Will give in exchange a number of 

 rare and local British plants, British shells, or Lepidoptera. — 

 Wm. Jordan, Cockfield, Sudbury, Suffolk. 



For exchange, stuffed hooded crow, and chaffinch, in case, 

 several bird and animal skins (British). Wanted micro slides, or 

 magic lantern slides, or offers. — Jas. Ingleby, Eavestone, Ripon. 



British marine, land and freshwater shells, for exchange. 

 Lists exchanged. — R. Ley, St. Leonard's Lawn, Exeter. 



About 200 foreign stamps, in two blank books, with room for 

 eight times the number, mostly common, but all different, one 

 half of them being unused. Will take 15^-. for all, or exchange 

 all or part for exotic (diptera or longicornia preferred) insecta. 

 List of stamps sent. Only specimens in fair condition accepted. 

 — E. A. Brunetti, 14 & 15 Lower Grosvenor Place, London, S.W. 



What offers for Science-Gossip, unbound, in good condition, 

 for the years 1S75, 1876, 1880, and July to December 1879, 

 inclusive? — G. S., Elm Grove, Ealing, W. 



Offered to exchange, for other British birds' eggs, grass- 

 hopper, reed, sedge, and wood warblers, lesser wbitethroat, 

 blackcap, crested tit, white wagtail, snow bunting, bullfinch, 

 red-winged starling, downy and golden-winged woodpecker, 

 yellow-billed cuckoo, passenger pigeon, quail, pheasant, par- 

 tridge, Virginian colin, killdeer plover, Barlram's and spotted 

 sandpipers, curlew, whimbal, Egyptian and Canada goose, 

 eider-duck, com. guillemot, com. and Arctic tern, herring, and 

 lesser black-backed gull. — R. Turnbull, 8 Cemetery Road, 

 Crewe, Cheshire. 



I have some good, named, foreign shells, and some first-class 

 inferior oolite fossils to spare. Would like good skins of British 

 birds, or any of Darwin's works, in exchange. — Science, 165 

 White Ladies Road, Bristol. 



Gilbert White's " Natural History of Selborn," with 200 

 illustrations, and notes by Rev. J. G. Wood (new). I have 

 only read it through. What offers ? Fossils, botanical speci- 

 mens, another Natural History, or anything. — Jno. Watson, 

 Old Trafford, Manchester. 



Slides of Uratiia riphisiis, Prepoita, Dcinophon, Papilio 

 buddha, and diamond beetle, for other well-mounted and in- 

 teresting objects. The above are of exquisite beauty, and 

 Deraophon and Buddha very rare. Specimens of the Uranias : 

 Riphceus, Sloanus, Leilus, and Fulgens, or British lepidoptera, 

 for Professor Westwood's " Observations on the Uranias," in 

 the Transactions of the Zoological Society. Copy with coloured 

 plates required, or would give cash. — Joseph Anderson, junior, 

 Alve Villa, Chichester. 



Offered, British and foreign shells for British Crustacea 

 and foreign land shells. — Rev. W. Hey, 24 Portland Street, 

 York. 



Will exchange a good collection of 170 silver and copper 

 coins and medals.(mostly British), for minerals, fossils, or a magic 

 lantern. Also for exchange a good microscope and good rock 

 specimens. What ofiersV — Hy. Hunson, 153 Great Horner 

 Street, Liverpool. 



A perfect ivory palette, 9X6, for Rimner's " Land and 

 Freshwater Shells " ; also 500 British wild plants, some very rare. 

 What offers ?— B. ^L C, 76 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, 

 London. 



SciENCE-GossiP, parts for 1870, 1871, 1877, 1878, and 1880, in 

 good condition. What offers in natural hibtory specimens? — 

 A. Foster, Roger Street, Ansiruther, N.B. 



For exchange : redshank, dunlin, oystercatcher, black- 

 backed gull, common tern. Wanted live birds for aviary, gold- 

 fuiches, siskins, crossbills, hawfinches, and many other com- 

 moner species. — Geo. Dawson, 6 English Street, Carlisle. 



Haik of OrnithorJiynchns paradoxus, mounted in balsam, 

 for other good slide ; also several slides, in exchange for books, 

 shells, &c. — Mrs. Skilt^n, London Road, Brentford. 



Wanted a small compound microscope, suitable for field 

 work, in exchange for six-barrel revolver, mutual approval.— 

 J. R. Marten, 4 Eastgate Row, Chester. 



Good collection of West Indian products (spices, &c.), m 

 exchange for fossils, or micro slides. — Edward Oliver, ii Alma 

 Road, Canonbury, N. 



Either herbarium of 120 species of British mosses, or 120 

 species of British phanerogams, in perfect condition, offered 

 for Gray's " British Seaweeds " (published at laf. 6ij'.). Good 

 slides of insects wanted in exchange for good botanical and 

 other slides. — X , 14 Sherborne Road, Bradford. 



Splendidly preserved, and correctly named, specimens ot 

 Swiss Alpine and other plants, to be had, from single specimens 

 to any number, at ()d. each. — D. B., care of Editor, Science- 

 Gossip. 



Wanted, first-class mo.mted and unmounted microscopic 

 objects for other microscopic objects, mounted and unmounted. 

 — The Secretary, The Birmingham Exchange. 



Wanted, the Christian Knowledge Society's set of botanical 

 diagrams. Roots of foreign ferns in exchange, or state wants. 

 — Miss Ridley, HoUington House, Newbury. 



Duplicates of Tortrices, Tineinae, Pterophorinse, and other 

 Lepidoptera;, in exchange for other species. Send lists. — Sidney 

 Smith, Castle Street, Walmer, Kent. 



Will exchange (i) Lubbock's " Prehistoric Times" (1878), 

 (2) Slack's " Marvels of Pond Life," (3) Newman's " Insect 

 Hunters" (2nd edit.), (4) Lockyer's "Spectroscope" (Nature 

 Series), (5) Theodore Hook's Humorous Works, (6) "Respon- 

 sibility in Mental Disease "(International Series), all as good as 

 new, for books on Natural History, or for cash. Wanted espe- 

 cially Cook's " Handbook of British Fungi," 2 vols, (last edit.), 

 Leighton's "Lichen Flora," &c. — W. G. WooUcombe, 13 

 Museum Terrace, Oxford. 



Will exchange my collection of about 400 (species) Lepido- 

 ptera for Coleoptera (individually or collectively). Lists sent. 

 Also wanted to exchange correspondence with Coleopterists, 

 with view to mutual assistance. — H. B. Pim, Leaside, Kingsford 

 Road, Upper Norwood. 



For a beautiful double-stained section of cat's tongue, well 

 mounted and finished, send a good object of interest, also 

 mounted. — J. Edwards, 39 Bridge Street, Wednesburj'. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves." Bj' Dr. I. 

 Rosenthal. London : C. Kegan Paul & Co. 



" Land and Water." February. 



"The Midland Naturalist." February. 



" Entomologist." February. 



"Transactions of the Epping Forest Naturalists' Field Club." 

 Part II. 



"Proceedings of the Geologists' Association." Nos. 8 and g. 



" Natural History Notes.' No. 2. 



" Etudes des Coupes de Diatomees." Par W. Prinz. 

 Bruxelles. 



" American Monthly Microscopical Journal." J.inuary. 



" Canadian Entomologist." January. 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." January. 



"The Homing Pigeon." January. 



" The American Journal of Microscopy." January. \ 



" Science." January. 



" Medical Herald." January. 



" Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History." Bulletin 

 No. 3. 



" Botanical Gazette." January. 



" Revista." February. 



" La Science pour Tons." January. 



" Le Monde de la Science." January. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." January and February. 



" Proces-verbal de Societe Beige de Microscopic." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to qth ult. from :— 

 J. B— R. W. S.-F. L. R.— N. E. B.- T. J. L.-C. V. R. 

 —J. S.— G. D. S.— W. R. W.— H. W. W.-R. L.-G. B.— 



E. B.-W. E. D.— G. W. C— W. K. M.— A. B.— H. H. W.— 

 J. S. W.— H. W. L.— H. B.-R. E.— R. I. C.-A. M.— W. G. 

 — H. L.— J. G. W.-A. W.— M. P. M.— M.-G. H.^S. S.— 



F. W. M.— R. A. B.— A. C. S.— H. F. A.— J. A. O.— T. M. R. 

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

 F. W. D.— G. D.— J. F. G.— C. W. H.— W. P. L.— E. D. M. 

 — G. W.— J. H. W.— H. C. B.— F. P.— W. H. N.— J. L.- 

 E. B.-W. S.— D. B.— W. G.— T. L.— T. W.— W. W.— 

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

 — M. S.-F. W. E. S.— W. B.— R. E. S.-P. Z.— T. J.— 



B. J. G.— H. J.— W. J.— J. W.— J. I.— R. L.— G. S.— J. R.— 

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



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

 — L. S. G.-B. M. O.— A. F.— R. B.— G. D.— J. N.— A. G. W. 

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

 J. S. H.— A. J.— W. D. C — A. B.— J. T. T. R.— H. J. T.— 

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

 E. L.— A. W.— J. C. C— S. S.— Miss R.— H. W. S. W.— 

 S. J. H.-W. F. H.-J. B.-&C. 



