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HARDWICKKS SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



ring-ousel, red-lesged partridge, Arctic tern, black-headed 

 bunting, black guillemot, kittiewake, herring gull, and coote. — 

 K. H. Jones, St. Bride's Rectory, Manchester. 



Electrical. — Frictional and galvanic apparatus, good as 

 "new. Will exchange for good magic-lantern and part cash, 01 

 offers.— G., 35 Caversham Road, N.W. 



A good collection of British and foreign land, freshwater, 

 and marine shells, consisting of over three hundred species, 

 and many varieties, including fifty lots of shells, neatly 

 mounted, in glass tubes. For full particulars apply to — P. R. 

 Shaw, 48 Bidston Road, Birkenhead. 



Tate's "Land and Freshwater Molluscs," coloured plates, 

 clean copy, good as new. What offers — geological ? Also 

 Science-Gossip for 1886, unbound.— G. H. Corbett, 13 Church 

 Road, Nechells, Birmingham. 



Desiderata. — Testacella haliotidea, maugei ; Zonites 

 glaber, radiatuius, excavatus, purus, futvus ; Helix aspersa 

 var. exalbida, arbusiorum var. jlavescens, sericca, fusca, 

 virgata, var. uigrescens, tessellata, eruetorum var. instabilis, 

 Pygjn&a ; Clausilia. laminata, Acme lineata. Oblata. — H. 

 ritfescetis var. alba, rubens, and minor, kispida, concin?ia, 

 rezielata, pisana, virgata, and vars. ?najor, minor, albicans, 

 ru/ula, luiescens, submaritima, alba, caferata, and vars. 

 obliterata, alba, Julva, ornata, ericetontm, and vars. lutescens, 

 leucozofia, major, minor, rotundata, rupestris, lapicida; 

 Bulimus obscurus, Pupa secale, umbilicata,'marginnta ; Balea 

 perversa, Clausilia rugosa, and var. tumidula, dubia, Cyclo- 

 stoma elegans. — S-, 40 Braybrooke Road. Hastings. 



Wanted, back numbers of Science-Gossip for 1866, 1868- 

 1871, 1873, 1879, 18S2-1884, in exchange for micro, slides or 

 cash. Also, would like to exchange a few slides for others.— 

 F. S. Morton, 158 Cumberland Street, Portland, Maine, 

 U.S.A. 



Wanted, freshwater, sea shells, and corals, in exchange for 

 chalk polyzoa, flustra, lituola, rotalia, serpula, spicules, geodes 

 (flint), crystals of selenite from London clay. — W. Gamble, 

 2 West Street, New Brompton, Kent. 



Helix vittata^t) large, and far flatter than type; H. tran- 

 quebarica, Velosita cyPrinoides, Neritina orialanensis, Nassa 

 Jacksoniana and Tympauotomus Jluviatilis, from Tra van- 

 core ; also various marine shells from Cape Comorin (un- 

 named), for foreign helices.— Rev. J. W. Horsley, Woolwich. 



Herbarium. — Offered, British, Norwegian, and North 

 American plants, for those of other countries. Printed list of 

 duplicates. — H. Fisher, 26 Stodman Street, Newark, Notts. 



Science-Gossip (unbound), for 1867, 1887-89. What offers 

 in foreign postage-stamps for same? — W. Harris, 136 Drayton 

 Park, Highbury, London, N. 



Wanted, back numbers of Science-Gossip. "Zoologist," 

 " Naturalist," " Naturalist's Gazette," and " Field Club " ; 

 bound vols, preferred. Will exchange books, eggs, &c. Also 

 wanted, works by Hewitson and Morris. — W. R. Riley, 

 Savile Lea, Halifax, Yorks. 



Foreign land and marine shells, offered in exchange for 

 orchids or foreign birds. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, 

 Twickenham. 



Exchange. — Fine Lingida scotica, lower carboniferous, in 

 ironstone nodule; photo free. Pnotographic books or offers 

 to value of 50s. — W. J. Heslop, West View, Lemington, 

 Newcastle, 1 



Exchange. — Side-blown eggs of capercaillie, sociable plover, 

 Canada goose, ring-ousel, eider duck, ptarmigan, twite, gold- 

 crest, teal, Manx sherewater, &c. Desiderata, other eggs or 

 insects. — J. Ellison, Steeton, Keighley. 



Exchange fine series of crag fossils ifor eggs, insects, or 

 offers.— J. Ellison, Steeton, Keighley. 



Wanted, micro, slides showing organs of generation in 

 thallophytes, and sections of seeds. Will give good botanical 

 slides. Address — T. B., Conservative Club, Hinckley. 



Wanted, to correspond with collectors who may have rare 

 British shells to offer in return for other very rare British 

 shells. Mutual exchanges. — Thomas E. Sclater, Strand, 

 Teignmouth. 



Wanted, a few specimens of the following : labradorite, 

 crocodolite (from the Congo), and any other good bright 

 crystal minerals, about two or three inches in size and up- 

 wards, in exchange for British shells, micro, objects, fossils, 

 polished madrepores. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., Natural 

 History Stores, 43 Northumberland Place, The Strand, 

 Teignmouth. 



Wanted, British mammals, alive or in the flesh (fresh 

 killed), particularly bats, mice, shrews, voles, wild cat, pine 

 and beech marten, badger, otter; also varieties of mole, hedge- 

 hog, &c. ; must be in good condition for stuffing. Apply to — ■ 

 W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Science-Gossip, Nos. 241-264, having four numbers missing, 

 and a deal cabinet containing about one hundred British wild 

 bird and gull eggs, in exchange for curios.— G. Waters, 

 21 Westbourne Park Road, Bayswater, W. 



What offer for a splendid collection of Helix nemoralis, 

 including eight named vars., and forty variously banded, 

 nearly all named : also ten various H. arbusiorum, including 

 var. alba. — H. Blaby, Brackley, Northants. 



Tertiary and cretaceous fossils wanted. Sends lists to— 

 J. A. Ellis, 1 Pomona Place, Fulham, London, S.W. 



Offered, Ramsbotham's " Obstetric Surgery " {published at 

 22s.), Nicholson's ''Zoology" (7s. 6d.), Orme's "Heat" 

 (3s. 6d.), Cleland's "Animal Physiology" (2s. 6d.), Saarner's 

 " The Microscope." Wanted, good minerals and fossils. — 

 W. H. Olver, 2 Adelaide Terrace, Truro. 



To naturalists in India. Wanted, pupa; or ova; of wild silk 

 moths: A. alias, A. sclene, A. cynt/u'i, A. tnytitla, C. tri~ 

 fenestrata, &c. Will give cash or full exchange, as desired. 

 Correspondence invited. — Mark L. Sykes, F.R.M.S., 31 Derby 

 Street, Moss Side, Manchester. 



Offered, British land, freshwater, and marine shells for 

 others, or offers. — A. H. Shepherd, 81 Corinne Road, 

 London, N. 



Eocene fossils for exchange, named and localised, also 

 Cornish rock and mineral specimens. Wanted, named speci- 

 mens of minerals, micro, rock sections, or perfect terebratula; 

 from any formations, or offers. — E. H. V. Davies, 46 Upper 

 Belgrave Road, Clifton, Bristol. 



Wanted, fossils from various localities, especially British 

 and foreign tertiaries. — Thomas W. Reader, 171 Hemingford 

 Road, London, N. 



I wish to dispose of thirty 8X6 photographs of locomotive 

 engines (cost 2s. each), for which I will take offers in exchange. 

 Wanted, a microscope, clarionet, violin, safety, or other useful 

 thing. — Reginald E. M. Bleasdall, Dale End, Birmingham. 



Vol. 41 of "Nature," clean, unbound, in exchange for 

 anything entomological. — W. S. Rolfe, Hazeldene, Tooting 

 Junction, S.W. 



Duplicates. — Fine stuffed specimen of cormorant in first- 

 class preservation, from the Isle of Wight, also P. ovale, L. 

 siagnalis, L. glabra, S. elegans, H. arbttstorum, H. cantiatta, 

 H. nefescens, H . pisana, and var. alba, H. virgata, and var. 

 albicans, H. capcrata, H. cricetorum, H. rotundaia, B. 

 acutus, B. obscurus, P. umbillicata, C. rtigosa, C. lubrica, 

 C. elegans, Sec. Desiderata, many varieties of common species 

 and offers, birds' eggs, or British butterflies and moths. — 

 W. Hewett, 12 Howard Street, York. 



Offered, Pis. amuicum, Pal. vivipara, Byth. ientaculata, 

 Plan, carinatus, H. nemoralis, H. kortetisis, H. arbusto-rum, 

 Bui. obscurus, Vert, pygmwa, Coc/i. tridens, in exchange for 

 British land and freshwater shells not in collection; also for 

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

 Matlock Bridge. 



For exchange, P. co?itecta, V. piscinalis, V. crisiaia, Lim. 

 glabra, L. tnmcatula, L. palustris, P. spirorbis, P. glaber, 

 P. dilatatus, S. putris, H. sericea, C. tridens, C. minimum. 

 Wanted, Pis, nitidum, Z. excavatus, H. cartusia?ia, CI. 

 biplicata, &c. — F. C. Long, 32 Woodbine Road, Burnley, 

 Lanes. 



Wanted, B. monianus, P. nitidum, P. roseuvz, A. lineata* 

 Offered, P. secale, Gonisbasis plicifera, Neritina pupa, H. 

 strigella, H. umbrosa, H. obvia, CI. papillifera, CI. itala, 

 Pupa avenacea, CI. parvula. — G. H. Gude, 5 Giesbach Road, 

 Upper Holloway. 



A splendid series of nearly fifty animal hairs, in return for 

 six well-mounted micro, slides.— Arthur H. Williams, Hythe. 



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

 Shells of the British Islands," Gray's Ed. of 1857; Reeve's 

 "Land and Freshwater Molluscs," 1363 ; and Tate's " Land 

 and Freshwater Molluscs," 1866.— H. W. Kew, 5 Giesbach 

 Road, Upper Holloway, N. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 

 "Delagoa Bay: Its Natives and Natural History," by Rose 

 Monteiro {London: Philip & Son). — "Annals of British 

 Geology," 1890," by J. F. Blake (London: Dulau & Co.). — ■ 

 " Larranga's Photo-Phonograph," by Julius Maier. — "Report 

 of Norwich Science-Gossip Club, 1890." — "Journal of the 

 Institute of Jamaica." — " Proceedings of the Geologists* Asso- 

 ciation." — "The Essex Naturalist." — Wesley's "Nat. Hist, 

 and Scientific Book Circular." — "American Microscopical 

 Journal." — "American Naturalist." — " Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist." — "The Naturalist." — "The Botanical Gazette." — "The 

 Gentleman's Magazine." — "The Midland Naturalist." — 

 " Feuilles des Jeunes Naturalistes." — "The Microscope." — 

 " Nature Notes," &c.» &c. 



Communications received up to the izth ult. from : 

 A. H. S.— J. W. S.— H. G. W. A.— J. R. H.— E. W.— H. S. 

 — T. L.— J. H. C— O. W. J.— A. E. B.— W. J. P.— R. H. Y. 

 —J. H. A. H.— G. H. W.— J. A. E.— J. E. L.— H. E. G.— 



F. S. M.— F. V. T.— W. D.— C. K.— A. G. F.— H. I. B.— 

 T. S.— E. M. P.— C. L. S.— C. J. L.-G. H. C— J. A.— 

 P. R. S.-R. H. T— F. L. J.— F. L. D.— W. G-— T. R. J.— 

 R. B.— E. H. V. D.— C. E. R.— W. H.— T. W. R.— A. E. H. 

 — W. S. R— T. S.— A. F.— H. E. C— J. E. K.— E. P.— J- 

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

 K. G.— F. C. L.— J. H. B. G—M. L. S — W. H. O.— H. B.— 



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

 S.— F. G. E.— W. R. R.— A. H. S.— C. P.-C. R-— W. P. H. 

 T. S. B.— J. E.— T. S.— F. E. H.— P. F. T.— C. D. S.— J. A. 

 R.-T. S. M.-J. H. C.-J. A. S.-A. H. P. W.— A. J. S.- 

 J. w. F,— H. W. K.— Dr. A. M. C— &c, &c. 



