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HA RD WICKE' S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



antkus, Corydon galaihea, Ligustri caja, Dlspar chy., Bctu- 

 iaria vinula, Silago lanestris, Jacobs pudibunda, and others, 

 for side-blown birds' eggs, one hole. — F. J. Rasell, 61 St. 

 James Road, Northampton. 



Will anyone help me to obtain some male crickets [Acheta 

 domestica), say, three or four dozen or more? I will'arrange 

 with correspondents about exchange. — A. Witt, Hale Rec- 

 tory, Salisbury. 



A few novels (Kingsley's, Scott's, &c.) to exchange for 

 geological specimens correctly named, and with locality, &c. 

 List on application.— Walter C. Shields, 36 Garturk Street, 

 Crosshill, Glasgow. 



Wanted, any fossils not in my collection, also violin, 

 clarionet, microscope, &c. Exchange photos of locomotive 

 engines (including Stephenson's "Puffing Eilly," Hedley's, 

 and Treverick's engines). — Reginald E. M. Bleasdale, 104 Dale 

 End, Birmingham. 



Offered, minerals, fossils, shells, micro, objects and mate- 

 rial, Devonian polished and rough corals and sponges, and 

 rock specimens, as quartzites, quartz royalites, Murchisonites 

 and granites, and other porphyretic specimens, in exchange 

 for any of the following: good microscope with accessories, 

 telescope, opera glass, secondhand watch that will keep time, 

 or a collection of stamps in album, or any of the following 

 shells: — Vertigo] Moidinsiana, V. pusilla, Isocardia cor, and 

 Livtfura involuta. Good exchange guaranteed. — T. E. Sclater, 

 Northumberland House, Teignmouth. 



A large number of school and text books offered in ex- 

 change for fossils, shells, rocks, minerals, or slides. The 

 subjects embrace Greek, Latin, French, German, science, 

 divinity, history, geography, mathematics, and English. List 

 of any subject from — Mr, A. E. Salter, 8 Venetia Road, 

 Finsbury Park, N. 



Offered, a complete set of entomological apparatus, in- 

 cluding setting house with perforated zinc door, ten setting 

 boards and drawer for pins ; also collecting tin store boxes,P&c. 

 Will sell cheap, or exchange for good trout rod. — W. C. 

 Wright, Lauriston, Derrievolgie, Belfast. 



Offered, variety of specially mounted first-class micro, 

 slides for oxyhydrogen microscope. Desiderata, foraminifera, 

 polycistina, diatoms, sponges, &c. — H. W. Case, F.R.M.S., 

 Cotham, Bristol. 



Wanted for a museum, a few cut and polished ammonites 

 in halves or pairs, not less than six inches in diameter — larger 

 ones preferred — for which I shall be pleased to send in return 

 thirty nice named specimens of minerals (not rocks) from 

 Devon and Cornwall. Also wanted, large fossil ammonites, 

 unpolished, from the district in Yorkshire where they are 

 plentiful, and other large fossils and large minerals of crystal- 

 lisation, or any of the following books: — Tate's "Land and 

 Freshwater Molluscs," Turton's "Manual of the Land and 

 Freshwater Shells of the British Islands," Reeves' "Land and 

 Freshwater Molluscs," in exchange for fossils, British and 

 foreign shells, rock specimens, micro, objects, and Devon 

 corals. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., Natural History Stores, 

 43 Northumberland Place, Teignmouth. 



Offered, Bythinia tentaatlata, B. Leachii, Hydrobia 

 ventrosa, H. Jenhinsi, Valvata piscinalis, V. cristata, 

 Planorbis comeus, Physa hypnorum, Limnea glutinosa, 

 Succinea putris, Hyalina cellaria, Helix arbustorum, H. 

 cantiana, H. ru/escens, H. pisana, If. virgata, H. virgata 

 var. submaritana, H . ericetorum, Pupa umbilicata, Clausilia 

 rugosa, &c. Wanted, other land and freshwater shells not in 

 collection.— C. Baldock, 21 Chapel Street, Woolwich. 



Wanted, European dragonflies, British locusts, field cock- 

 roaches, male crickets, field crickets, British hawk moths and 

 British mammals (stuffed or in the flesh), particularly bats, wild 

 cat, marten, polecat, otter, badger; also varieties of common 

 species. Offered, natural history books and pamphlets, British 

 butterflies, dragonflies, land and freshwater shells, marine 

 shells, and geological specimens; also small cabinet suitable 

 for eggs, shells, &c— W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birming- 

 ham. 



Wanted, good illustrated works relating to European 

 odontata, orthoptera, and rhopalocera, also first-class aneroid 

 barometer, and combined opera and field-glass. A good return 

 will be made in natural history books or specimens, &c. — 

 W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Duplicate clutches of sooty tern, golden-winged wood- 

 pecker, little grebe, mute swan, moorhen, bullfinch, pied wag- 

 tail, Manx sherewater, tits, and others, side-blown and with 

 data. Wanted, turnstone, divers, ducks, and offers. — F. W. 

 Paple, 62 Waterloo Street, Bolton. 



Wanted, British or foreign shells or fossils, in exchange 

 for others. Foreign correspondence specially desired. — Rev. 

 John Hawell, Ingleby Greenhow Vicarage, Middlesbrough. 



Duplicates. — A large number of correctly named and 

 perfect specimens of British coleoptera, also a few hemiptera, 

 and a few land and marine shells. Desiderata, lepidoptera, 

 coleoptera, and other orders, and named types of British and 

 foreign shells, or offers. — A. Ford, Claremont House, Upper 

 Tower Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. 



Wanted, L. C, 8th ed. : — 21, 22, 27, 45, 143, 155, 193, 259, 

 354, 368, 402, 405, 459, 470, 492, 533, 559, 611, 626, 634, 676, 

 700, 726, 729, 739, 789, 805, 875, 879, 885, 898, 1011, 1025, 1040, 



1043, 1045, ins, ^S 1 * T 3 8 °> 1606, 1771, 1800, &c. Send 

 complete desiderata to — H. Fisher, Stodman Street, Newark, 

 Notts. 



Wanted, bound volumes of "Great Thoughts," novels by 

 J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, or " Q." Good exchange given 

 in fossils and minerals from all formations. — James Marsden, 

 3 Schleswig Street, Preston. 



Wanted, minerals or fossils in exchange for carboniferous 

 fossils or emu's eggs. Address— John Millie, Echobank, 

 Inverkeithing, Fifeshire, N.B. 



Birds' eggs. Duplicates of red grouse, puffin, lesser red- 

 pole, sandpiper, black-headed bunting, whinchat, yellow 

 wagtail, &c. Desiderata, swift, hobby, merlin, barn owl, 

 buzzard, and many others.— W. G. Clutten, 19 Berkeley 

 Street, Burnley. 



Offered, Pis. amnicum, Pal. vivipara, Byih. tentacidata > 

 Plan, carinatus, H. nemoralis, H. hortensis, H. arbustorum. 

 Bid. obscurus, Vert. pygm&a, Coch. tridens, in exchange for 

 British land and freshwater shells not in collection ; also for 

 foreign shells. Foreign correspondence invited. — H. E. Craven, 

 Matlock Bridge. 



Wanted, fossils from the London clay, Woolwich and 

 Reading, and Thanet sands. Good exchange given from 

 other strata. — T. W. Reader, 171 Hemingford Road, Earns- 

 bury, London, N. 



Wanted, minerals and terebratula in exchange for eocene 

 fossils, Cornish metallic minerals, and rock specimens. — 

 E. H. V. Davies, 46 Upper Belgrave Road, Clifton, Bristol. 



The following numbers of Science-Gossip, clean and 

 perfect — Nos. 73, 119, 151, 173-178 inclusive, 220, and 253. 

 The lot for $s. 6d., post free, or any single number sent by 

 post for yd. each.— H. Allingham, The Mall, Eallyshannon, 

 Ireland. 



.Offered, microscopic objects — entomological, polar, &c. — 

 three dozen professionally mounted. Wanted, fly-rod, tackle, 

 &c, or books. — G. Barker, 24 Avenue Villas, Cricklewood, 

 N.W. 



Offered, "The Microscope," by Hogg (sixth edition), 

 Davies' " Practical Microscopy" (second edition), and Balfour's 

 " Manual of Botany, 1 ' all in good condition. Wanted, volumes 

 of Science-Gossip, bound or unbound, for 1867, 1870-1872, 

 1875, 1876, 1S78-1881, or works on cryptogamic botany. — 

 W. P. Quelch, 8 Eccleston Road, Ealing Dean, London, W. 



What offers for Science-Gossip for about twenty years, 

 also last edition of " Micrographic Dictionary"? — A. Draper, 

 179 Cemetery Road, Sheffield. 



For exchange, Plan, complauatus, Zonites cellarius, var, 

 albinos, Z, glaber, Z. nitidulus, Helix nemoralis, H. hor~ 

 tensis and var. lutea, H. arbusiorum, H. rufescens, H. 

 hispida, H. virgata, H. ericetorum, H. rotundaia. Wanted, 

 Limnwa, vars. Umax, succi?iea, "vertigo, &c, or offers. — 

 A. H. Shepherd, 81 Corinne Road, London, N. 



Wanted, a few good specimens of malachite and rock 

 crystal ; must be in crystals. Will give Alston Moor minerals 

 in exchange. — William Hetherington, Nenthead, by Carlisle. 



Offered, XylopJtaga dorsalis. Wanted, Terebratula cra- 

 nium, Argiope (all), Anomia striata, Pinna nudis, Lima 

 Loscovzbii, L. Sarsii, Modiolaria nigra, Nucula sulcata, 

 Limopsis aurita, Area obliqua, A. pectimculoides, Lepton 

 (all), Axinus crouliensis, Diplodonta rotundata > Catdium 

 aculeatum, C. nodosum, C. ?iod. var. papillosum, Astarte 

 var. clliptica, Tapes, var. samiensis, Tellina balaustiana, T. 

 Pusilla, Psammobia costulata, Donax politus, D. trunculus, 

 Donax var. magna, Lutraria oblonga, Trochus amabilis, T. 

 Dunningi, T. montacuta, T. occidentalis , T. striatus, Lit- 

 iorina neritoides, Scalaria Trevelyana, lanthina, Natica 

 Islandica, Velutina plicatilis, Tropiwn muricaius, Fusus 

 Norz'egicus, F. Islandicus, F. propinqnus, F. buccinatus, F. 

 Berniciensis, F. Jenestratus. — J. Smith, Monkredding, Kil- 

 winning. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 

 "The Realm of Nature: an Outline of Physiography," by 

 Dr. H. R. Mill (London: John Murray).— "Power and Force, 

 Spiritual and Natural," by J. E. Keene (London: T. Fisher 

 Unwin).— "An Account of British Flies," Part 3, Vol. 1, by 

 F. V.Theobald (London: Elliot Stock).— "The Microcosm," 

 Nov. (New York). — "The Entomologist's Record," No. 12, 

 Vol. 2. — "Manipulation of the Microscope," by E. Bausch 

 (London: W. P. Collins).— " The Collector's Monthly."— 

 " Gentleman's Mag." — "Midland Naturalist." — "American 

 Naturalist." — "American Microscopist," &c. ( &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult 

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