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HA R D WICKE ' S S CIE NCR - G O SS/P, 



by Souerby, and Dante's "Inferno and Purgatorio," illustrated 

 by Dore, for volumes or numbers of " The Geological Society's 

 Journal," or " Proceedings of the Geological Association," con- 

 taining articles on Lias or Oolites. — E. W., 21 West Bar Street, 

 Banbury. 



Good geological cabinet required in exxhange for a new and 

 beautiful threefjld screen, co-.t ijio. — E. Walford, 21 West Bar 

 Street, Banbury. 



"Penny Cyclopaedia" (with .appendix), recently purchased 

 in uncut parts, and bound in cloth in 16 double vols. Would 

 exchange for good astronomical telescope. — The Master, 

 Danbury School, Chelmsford. 



Skeleton, human, in perfect condition, with ring from skull 

 to suspend by ; telescope, by Dixey & Son, New Bond Street, 

 30 inches long when open, loi when closed, li-in. objective glass, 

 leather cover, caps and sling, brass work all dead black; one 

 pair of roller skates, two pairs ordinary skates ; fishing tackle : 

 medical works, suitable for student, all modern — list sent if 

 required. Wanted, ^ or i objective, by good maker, B, C, or D 

 eye-pieces ; portable microscope (such as Murray & Heath's) ; 

 Science-Gossip, Nos. 13, 99, io5, and 107, also vols. 10, 11, 12, 

 13. 14. — R. C. J., Robin's Nest, Blackburn. 



Mounted slides of anchors and anchor plates of Sytiapta 

 Gallietiica, arranged in patterns — beautiful objects for the 

 polariscope or spot lens, in exchange for good unmoui.ted 

 material. Wanted good forms of spicnla, &c. — W. White, 

 7 Warden Place, York Street, Nottingham. 



BiNOCi'LAK microscope with polariscope and objectives, cost 

 £1^ ; exchange good astronomical telescope. — S., 76 Blackman 

 Road, Leeds. 



Small superior cabinet, containing 13 drawers, 7" X s", 

 suitable for moths, &c., cost £2 los. ; exchange good physio- 

 logical slides. — S., 76 Blackman Road, Leeds. 



BiELLAMv's " Natural History of South Devon," and many 

 f'ther books, in exchange for works in natural history. — W. 

 Macmillan, Castle Gary, Somerset. 



Wanted, a cock canary, must be healthy, imder 4 years old, 

 of good breed, and nicely coloured. I will send in exchange, 

 carnage free, my splendid, perfectly new, unused and complete, 

 " Myriograph " (an excellent apparatus for producing a large 

 number of copies from one writing) 10s., i.e. letter size (9+ in. 

 ^,y y^] with ink and full directions. (It is inadequate to my 

 requirements on account of size.)— A. F. Kitching, Prospect 



Street, Hull. ... . . .^ 



Wanted, microscopic slides ; will give in exchange scientific 



books, store cases, &c. Send list.— F. S. Lyddon, 2 Oakland 



Villas, Redland, Bristol. 



Fifteen diagrams, good as new, on "The Literary History 



of the Bible," each 3 feet by 4, coloured on cloth, cost £1 i8s., 



will exchange for micro objects, or offers.— E. Tye, Stony 



Stratford, Bucks. _ -r, •-,_/- 1 



Wanted, exchange correspondents in British Coleoptera. — 

 T. Wood, 5 Selwyn Terrace, Jasper Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. 



Wanted to exchange, British land and freshwater shells, for 

 ditto, birds' eggs, minerals, and fossils.— H. Pollard, Philoso- 

 j.hical Hall, Leeds. 



MofNTED hairs of Polar bear, mouse mole, in exchange for 

 other slides. — John Moore, 12 Porchester Street, near Clifford 

 Street, Birmingham. 



Wanted, slide of P. angnlata and fossil nummulites ; will 

 .■send slide of foot,trapdoor spider, foraminifera, unnamed grouped, 

 or anything I have. — G. Bryan, Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge. 



Over iooo British Plants, 850 mounted (some very rare). 

 Offer.— L. Tetlow, 19 Radcliffe Street, Oldham. 



Wanted, micro slides, British birds' eggs, or coins not in 

 collection, Darwin's works, or a 2-inch objective, for an ex- 

 cellent collection of vertebrate and invertebrate animals in 

 spirit.— G. A. Widdas, Swiss Cottage, Bond Street, Leeds. 



Wanted, in fruit, Brymn iiiclinatmn, Wariieiiin Inciisirc, 

 Barncsi, Marrattii, 7iliginosuvi, iiitermedhtm, pallcsccns, 

 Smitcri, turbhiatum and rosenin ; aUo Lcskea ni/esccus, and 

 any species of Phascum.— Miss Ridley, Hollington House, 

 Newbiiry. 



I have some micro material and duplicate micro slides. I 

 will be glad to exchange for micro objects, particularly those of 

 geological interest. Lists exchanged.— William Gray, Mount 

 Charles, Belfast. 



For exchange Oppen's "Postage Stamp Album," nearly 



new, containing over 600 British and foreign stamps, many of 



them very rare, and with space for several hundreds more. 



"•What offers in micro slides, or back vols, of Science-Gossii' in 



parts, ntite, 1878? — Rex, ic8 Broomgrove Road, Sheffield. 



Will exchange parasites and animal hairs fur other 

 objects of natural history; butterflies preferred. — T. Pickin, 

 8 1' Bridge Str.:et, i\Ianchester, 



Sin.ENDini.v preserved and correctly named Swiss Alpine 

 and other plants, including grasses, sedges, &c. Sets of not 

 less than three specimens sent post free for (>d. each specimen. 

 —Dr. B., care of Editor Science-Gossip. 



Long series of several species of beetles from Madagascar, 

 in exchange for good eg.gs. Pupil of Lepidoptera or unset 

 exotic butferflies.— W. K. Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, 



Bristol. , . , 



Complete set of tools, &c. for drawing and engraving on 

 -vnod, comprising 14 gravers, pad, eye-glass, oil-stone, Chinese 



white, Indian ink, printing ink, dabbers, special pencil, saucer'- 

 &c. and engraver's globe, all except the globe in rough box 

 with fittings Wanted in exchange good microscopic objects 

 (physiological preferred) or human skull.— Frederick Greening, 

 50 New Street, Kennington Park Road, London, S. E. 



W.-NNTED microscopic material of all kinds, especially sound- 

 ings, cleaned Foraminifera, Polycystina, diatoms (the larger 

 kinds) in exchange for varnishes (black, white, red and green), 

 glycerine, balsam, gold size, spring clips, &c. &c. Lists to— 

 E. W. Wilton, Northfield Villas, Leeds. 



Wanted the seeds or a young plant of tobacco [Kkotiana re- 

 panda preferred).— F. Proud, Binchester Lodge, Bishop Auck- 

 land. 



Well ^ mounted slides of 3fyxotrichine ckartai-inn and 

 Lycopodium spores, for other well-mounted objects. — W. S. 

 7 Rowland Street, Trafl'ord Road, Salford. 



" Insects Abroad " by Rev. J. G. Wood. " How to work with 

 the Microscope," 4th edit, by Lionel S. Beale ; 2 vols, and six 

 first numbers of 3rd vol. of " Midland Naturalist," all almost new 

 in exchange for rare or very good diatomacean material in quan- 

 tity or offers. — J. Tempere, Storrington, Sussex. 



Wanted, a pocket spectroscope by Browning : mi:st be in 

 perfect order and cheap. Apply F. I. \ . S., Raby House 

 Bath. 



For exchange, shells, minerals, birds' eggs (in original sets, 

 side-blown with description) fossils, and marine specimens. 

 AVanted in exchange, shells, eggs and rare minerals ; would 

 like shells, especially Helices from any country foreign to the 

 United States. Specimens must be in prime condition. Parties 

 wishing to exchange will please send lists and receive mine. — 

 Charles 0. Tracy, Taftsville, Windsor County, Vermont, 

 U.S.A. 



Land, fresh-water and marine shells of the U.S., W. Indies, 

 cretaceous, carboniferous, Silurian and Devonian fossils of the 

 U.S. to exchange for recent or fossil species of any other region. 

 List of 500 species of duplicates sent upon application. Will 

 make no exchange without having first seen list of species 

 offered.— Berlin H. ^\■right, Penn Van, New Vork, U.S.A. 



A COMI'OUND achromatic microscope by Crichton on firm 

 brass tripod stand, with 6-inch, 5-;nch, 4-inch, 3-inch, 2-inch, 

 i-inch, 4-inch and i-inch in ojectives, stage forceps, live box, 

 bull's-eye condenser, spherical siher reflector, S:c. and 100 best- 

 mounted objects in exchange fur a good microscopic stand 

 (monocular or binocularl by any good English m.aker ; address, 

 in reference — Arthur Duherty, 20 Lean.ington Street, Oxford 

 Road, Manchester. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Report of Un'ted States Commission of Fi.sh and Fisheries 

 for 187S." Washington : Government Printing Office. 



" General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves." By Dr. 

 Rosenthal. London : C. K. Paul & Co. 



"Uncle Remus, and his Legends of the Old Plantation." 

 By J- C. Harris. London: D. Bogue. 



" Bulletin of the Essex Institute." Vcl. XII. 



" Science." February. 



" American Monthly Micro-copical Journal." February. 



" British Lichens : How to Study Them." By Wm. Phillips, 

 F.L.S. 



" fournal de Micrographie." December 18S0. 



" Revista." l\Iarch. 



"Journal de I'Agriculture." March. 



" Land and Water." March. 



"Journal of Applied Science." March. 



"'I'he Midland Naturalist." March. 



"Northern Microscopist." March. 



" Natural History Notes. ' March. 



" The Natural History Journal." March. 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" C;ood Health." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Commvnications received up to qth vlt. from:— 

 J. B.— W. J. R.— W. G. W.— E. J. W.-J. E.-J. B.- 

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

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

 — C. I. W. R.— J. W.-R. W. C— R. A.-J. D. H.— W. H.— 

 H. W. M.-A. J. D.-A. C. S.-S. J. H.-M. P. M.-F. L.- 

 F. M. R.— J. F.— C. D. F.-G. H. P.— R. B.— J. G.— A. D.— 

 R. T. R.— H. A. F.— W. W. R.— H. H.— F. M. H.— H. F.— 

 C F. W.— F. R.— T. A. T.— C. F. V.— C. F. W. T. W.— 

 T. M. v.— W. W. R.— G. M.— W. G.-J. A. W.— H. L.— 

 H. P. M.— A. B.— W. S.-A. W.— P. Q. K.-C. E. C— 

 F. J. R.— H. J. J.— L.— C. A. H.— H. P.— R. B.-L. T — 

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

 _H. W.— A. F. K.— F. S. L.— R. R.— C. W. B.-E. T 

 J. w.— E. B. P.— W. M.-F. B.— J. B.— T. J. L.— W. 

 -N.— R. E. H.— J. F.-W. G. W.-E. J. W.J. T.— P. S 

 E. W. A.-E. W. A.— F. C. k.— R. E. P.— A. L.— J. O. 

 — C. H. W.— W. W.-G. B.— H. J. R— W. A. P.— J. P 

 H. H. S.— W. G.— T. F.— W. R.-&C. 



