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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



lecta), palate of limpet, &c. — H. McCleery, 82 Clifton Park 

 Avenue, Belfast. 



Wanted, mounted or unmounted parasites, parts nf insects, 

 &c, unmounted preferred. Will give slides or unmounted 

 objects in exchange. — George T. Reed, 87 Lordship Road, 

 Stoke Newington, London, N. 



Wanted, Braithwaite's " British Moss Flora," Parts 9 and 

 12. Exchange mosses and books.— J. A. Wheldon, 9 Chelsea 

 Road, Walton Vale, Liverpool. 



Duplicates, L. C, 8th ed. : 73, 189, 356, 620, 923, 11723, 

 I 3 I 5» J 397 c t *44i> 1669, 1838. Desiderata, 74, 106, 117, 160, 

 354> 374. 55 1 - 5 6 o, 619, 716, 731, 745, 760, 824, 932, 980, 1136, 

 1403, 1431, 1574, 1591, 1593, 1603, 1625, and many others.— 

 E. D. Bostock, Stone, Staffordshire. 



"Field Club," 1890, "Nat. Gazette," 1891, Science-Gossip, 

 1889, 1891, unbound, clean ; exchange or offers. — W. Turnbull, 

 1 Home Terrace, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, rook and rabbit rifle, rare birds' eggs and micro, 

 slides. Will give in exchange treadle fretwork machine, 

 almost new, by Trump Bros., two model yachts, cutter about 

 3 feet 4 inches, and yawl about 4 feet long, with sails, masts, 

 and spars complete, clinker built and sail well, duplicate birds' 

 eggs (blown, two holes), book of crests about 200, including a 

 few of the peerage, military and naval, thirty-five different 

 war-ships, and eleven different offices, hospitals, &c, Oxford 

 and Cambridge colleges; also several unbound vols, of "Boys' 

 Own Paper." — A. J. B., Frogmore Cottage, Tregony, Gram- 

 pound Road, Cornwall. 



Wanted, a treadle fret-saw, in exchange for good specimens 

 of British land and freshwater shells, correctly named and 

 localised, or for young plants of some of the best varieties of 

 the cactus tribe.— M. A. O., 82 Abbey Street, Faversham, 

 Kent. 



Exchanges desired in British mosses — about eighty dupli- 

 cates. Lists exchanged.— Miss E. Armitage, Dadnor, Ross. 



"Natural History of Insects" (Murray, London, 1830}, in 

 two vols., published at 5s. each, second edition, numerous 

 woodcuts. Will exchange for a few good foreign shells.— 

 W. J. Jones, jun., 27 Mayton Street, Holloway, London. 



What offers in fossils or minerals for yellow copper, grey 

 copper ore, biotite, atocamite, etannine, cassiterite, wolfram, 

 calcite, gabbro, steatite, &c. ; Hamblin Smith's '"Algebra," 

 Angel's "Animal Physiology," Ahn's " German Method," 

 Wrightson's" Agriculture," and Burton's "Anatomy of Melan- 

 choly"?— W. H. Olver, 2 Adelaide Terrace, Truro. 



Wanted, micro, slides; will exchange good microscope.— 

 Palmer, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. 



What offers for Science-Gossip vols, for 1885-91, complete, 

 1880, 1881, 1884, incomplete; all coloured plates complete; 

 also "The Naturalist," vols, for 1889-9:, complete, and the 

 " British Naturalist for 1891, complete — Lionel E. Adams, 

 Penistone, Yorks. 



Wanted, British coleoptera and lepidoptera, or books on 

 entomology, in exchange for periodicals. — Ihos. W. Wilshaw, 

 455 Shoreham Street, Sheffield. 



Wanted, any of the following varieties of Helix aspersa — 

 nigrescetis, conoidea, globosa, grisea, Helix arbustoruni var. 

 albinos, Pisidium nitidum, Helix nemoralis vars. albescens 

 and studeria. Offered, Planorbis glaber, Helix sericea, H. 

 rupestris, Pupa secale, Zonites glaber.— Rev. W. Eyre, 

 Swarraton Rectory, Alresford, Hants. 



Arctic tern eggs, perfect, for which I should be glad to 

 exchange lesser and common terns* eggs, jackdaws', sparrow- 

 hawks' (number for value), &c— T. R. Clephan, Middleton 

 St. George, near Darlington. 



Offered, Scibnce-Gossip for 1S90 and iSgr, also last two 

 vols, of "Science and Art" (iv. and v.), unbound, in perfect 

 condition. Wanted, birds' eggs, one hole. — Geo. Nicholson, 

 3 Crown Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Jardine's " British Birds," Waterton's "Essays on Natural 

 History," Galton's "South Africa," Rennie's "Insect Mis- 

 cellanies." Exchange lepidoptera, or offers. — F. Emsley, 98 

 West Street, Leeds. 



Offered, South African coleoptera and lepidoptera (unset) 

 in exchange for other coleoptera and lepidoptera (unset, and 

 foreign to Europe). — O. West, Poplar Villa, Lansdowne Place, 

 Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 



Wanted, cabinet to hold 200 or 300 micro, slides. State 

 requirements to— R. de H. St. Stephens, 25 Fordwych Road, 

 West Hampstead, London, N.W. 



Wanted, shells not in collection. Offered, other shells. 

 Foreign correspondence invited, especially in India or China. — 

 E. R. Sykes, 13 Doughty Street, London, W.C. 



What offers for " British Fungi," by M. C. Cooke, 2 vols., 

 newly bound, half-calf, nicely tooled ; set of plates of Cooke's 

 " Freshwater Algze," and " British Lichens," by W. C. Lindsey, 

 half-calf. — X., 28 Hampton Road, Bristol. 



Wanted, Johnston's "Non-Parasitical Worms," and Dal- 

 zell's " Powers of Creation." Exchange store-boxes and 

 British insects. — R. Clark, 21 Grove Street, Retford, Notts. 



Offered, Micro, slides, animal hairs, stomach and gizzard 

 of beetles, &c. Wanted, slides, materials, or offers. — John 

 Moore, 223 Great Russell Street, Birmingham. 



Small lathe for lens and object grinding, several lens tools, 

 laps, slitting discs, emery wheels, &c. ; also " Carpenter on 



Microscope," 18S1, air-pump, and materials for mounting. 

 Binocular or other exchange wanted. — Dr. Taylor, patent 

 expert, 57 Chancery Lane, London. 



Ceylon butterflies. Will exchange a collection of 150 for 

 good microscope or camera.— E. J. Woodward, Selwyn Road, 

 Eastbourne. 



Helix Bourcieri, Orthalicus Bensoni, Bulimulus arbuslrts 

 B. Mastersi, Succinea Australis, Hyria corrugatus, &c, 

 offered in exchange for land-shells from Java or New Guinea, 

 or offers. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Back numbers of Science-Gossip for exchange: 271-276, 

 282-287, 292-301, also "Naturalists' Gazette," complete, fur 

 1889 and 1850, all in good condition ; also quantity of minerals. 

 Wanted, Taylor's book on "British Fossils," or secondhand 

 cabinet for minerals, or what offers? — William Hetherington, 

 Nenthead, by Carlisle. 



Wanted, trilobites or fossil fishes in exchange for car- 

 boniferous fossils or igneous rocks of this district. — John 

 Millie, Echobank, Inverkeithing, Fifeshire, N.B. 



Wanted, foreign stamps in exchange for fossils. — Fred. 

 Cartwright, 20 Eldon Street, C.-on-M., Manchester. 



British land and freshwater shells to exchange for exotic 

 species not in collection. Foreign correspondence invited. — 

 R. Wigglesworth, 13 Arthur Street, Clayton-le-Moors, Ac- 

 crington, Lane. 



Wanted, numbers of Science-Gossip previously to 1874, 

 parts of "Thesaurus Conchyliorum," and Tate's "British 

 Molluscs," with coloured plates. Exchange in fossils, shells, 

 &c. — Rev. John Hawell, Ingleby Greenhow Vicarage, Middles- 

 brough. 



Hooker's "Student's Flora," "Naturalist" for 1878, &c, 

 in exchange for GremH's " Flora of Switzerland." — Rev. W. W . 

 Flemyng, Clonegam Rectory, Portlaw, co. Waterford. 



Unio ■margaritifer'wi exchange for lepidoptera, or offers.— 

 Rev. W. W. Flemyng, Clonegam Rectory, Portlaw, co. 

 Waterford. 



Have a few dozen minerals which I want to give to school 

 museum. Would any geologist kindly name them for me? — 

 Jas. Ellison, Steeton, Keighley. 



Wanted, good books on marine algse and zoophytes, and 

 other seaside studies, in exchange lor Dolland telescope, 

 micro, slides, or other books.— J. T. Neeve, 68 High Street, 

 Deal. 



Wanted, British and foreign star-fishes, sea eggs and crabs, 

 sea-horse, and a good specimen of arragonite mineral, in return- 

 for fossils, British and foreign shells, microscopic objects and 

 material, polished geological specimens of corals and spongy- 

 forms, or state wants. — T. E. Sclater, Northumberland House, 

 Teignmouth. 



Wanted, Lutraria oblonga, Terebratula caput-serpentis , 

 Crania a?iomala, Pholadidea papyracea, Sp/uenia Bingltami, 

 Dipiodonta rotundata, Cardium papillosum, pinna, Lima, 

 hians, Pecten Da?iicus, Pecten niveus, Trochus millegranus, 

 Trochus granulatus, Styli/er Turtoni, Eulima stenostoma, 

 Natica lielicoides, Lamellaria fierspicua, Aplysia depilans, 

 Qvula patula, Akera bullata, Bulla kydatis, Acme lineata, 

 in exchange for other rare British shells, &c — A. J. R. Sclater, 

 M.C.S., Natural History Stores, 43 Northumberland Place, 

 Teignmouth, South Devon. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



"United States Geological Survey," Tenth Annual Report, 

 1888-89, part i., Geology (Washington : Government Printing 

 Office). — "The Optics of Photography, and Photographic 

 Lenses," by J. Trail Taylor (London: Whiitaker & Co.).— 

 "Dumaresq's Daughter," by Grant Allen (London: Chatto 

 & Windus).— "The Idler" (Chatto & Windus).— " The Ento- 

 mologist's Review," No. 1, vol. iii. (London: Elliot Stock & 

 Co.).— "The Essex Naturalist" (Chelmsford : Durrant & Co.). 

 — "W. P. Collins's Monthly Catalogue of Books" (London: 

 W. P. Collins). — "The Journal of the Queckett Microscopical 

 Club" (London: Williams & Norgate). — "The Essex Re- 

 view " (Chelmsford: E. Durrant & Co..) — "Health at Home 

 Tracts," by Alfred Schofield, M.D., M.R.CS. (The Religious 

 Tract Society).—" The Victorian Naturalist " (London : Dulau 

 & Son). — *' Contributions towards a Flora of the Outer 

 Hebrides," by Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. — "The Collectors 

 Monthly," &c, &c 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from : 

 H. E. G.— O. M. M.— H. M.— A. S. O. S.— H. B.— K. H. J. 

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

 G. T. R.-B. W. W.— T. R. C— H.— S. W. W.— G. N.— 

 A. B.— W. L. W. E.— L. E. A.— J. J. C.-W. J. J— A. 

 W. St. C— A. B.— M. A. A.— J. A. W.— W. T.— Dr. P. Q. K. 

 —A. C— S. M.— J. H.— A. B.— E. D. B.— E. G.— A. E. G.— 

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

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

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

 — T. E. S.— R. C— R. D. H. S.— R. C. R.— M. D. D-— C. R. 

 — E. R. S--W. J. (good).— Dr. T.— J. W. H.— F. C. K.— 

 J. M.— J. C. N.— J. E. L.— W. R. R.— Miss L.— J. E.- 

 W. W. F.-&C, &c 



