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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



F. W. Mackenzie Skues.— You had best offer the ten vols, 

 of Science-Gossip in exchange, or advertise them for sale. 



G. W. Raper. — Thanks for your very pretty sketch of ihe 

 monstrous foxglove. The flowers are very liable to sport 

 terminally when grown in gardens. 



T. Postgate (Carlisle). — We do not think the fossil sent us 

 was found in your district. It is very fragmentary, and most 

 closely resembles one of the turrulites from the lower cre- 

 taceous beds. 



I. E. Dowdle (Melbourne). — Address Secretary of Royal 

 Microscopical Society, Burlington House, London ; Hon. Sec. 

 and Editor of Quekett Club, 15 Westfield Road, Hornsey, 

 London, for your fullest information. The "American Micro- 

 scopist" is published in London by W. P. Collins, 157 Great 

 Portland Street, from whom you can have all periodicals. 



A. E. Brothers. — There is a book on "Pebbles" published, 

 with coloured plates (by either Routledge or Warne), but the 

 descriptions are very misleading. You had best address a 

 query to our columns. 



M. L. Svkes. — Shall be very pleased indeed to accept the 

 moths. 



I. H. Smith (Barbadoes). — The following are excellent 

 books: — Thome's "Manual of Botany," edited by A. W. 

 Bennett (London : Longmans) ; Nicholson's " Manual of 

 Zoology," last edition (Black woods). Neither very expensive 

 books, and both among the best. Write to the Secretary of 

 the Quekett Microscopical Club, 15 Westfield Road, Hornsey, 

 London. 



L. Greenhalgh (Middleton). — We are always pleased to 

 get these floral "monstrosities" collected and sent by the 

 collectors. They are no longer "freaks of nature;" that 

 explanation is not good enough. They relate to some past 

 stage in the biological history of the order— sometimes possibly 

 they are a forecast of biological changes yet to come. The 

 common daisy is more liable to "sport" than perhaps any 

 other member of the Compo^itas. 



Mr. Harrv Burns, of the Free Library, Fulham, S.W., is 

 anxious to procure a colony of living ants (F. sanguineum), 

 and their slaves, F. Jusca. Will some correspondent kindly 

 communicate with him, and if possible, send him a colony? 



T. M. Jones. — The specimen of proliferous growth in a rose 

 is one of the most remarkable instances of vegetable teratology 

 we have seen. It is almost a duplicate of the well-known 

 " Hen-and-Chickens " Daisy in the Composite. Many thanks 

 for the specimen. 



I. B. C. (Salford). — You are correct in your surmise. The 

 plant is the beautiful flowering rush (Butomus umbeltatus), 

 rare in Lancashire, but abundant in the rivers and dykes of 

 East Anglia, where cartloads of them could be easily procured. 



EXCHANGES. 



Offered, 31 vols, of Jardine's "Naturalists' Library," 

 first edition, 1834 (scarce), containing 1036 exquisitely finished 

 plates, accurately drawn and hand-painted, besides numerous 

 woodcuts, together with steel engraved portraits and memoirs 

 of thirty-one eminent naturalists. Wanted, theosophical and 

 philosophical works. — D. S. Steuart, North Leigh, Prestwich, 

 Lancashire. 



For exchange, duplicates from a private museum, specimens 

 from Colonial and Indian Exhibition, shells, fossils, &c 

 Desiderata, fossils. Lists on application to— Miss B. Y. 

 Cresswell, Sugellay House, Teignmouth, Devon. 



Offered, Isocardia cor (dead), Acme lineata, var, alba, and 

 many other rare shells. Wanted, Limncra involuta and 

 Succinea oblonga.—G. W. Chaster, 42 Talbot Street, South- 

 port. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 1886 (except January), 1887 

 (except December), and parts 239-242 ; also fossils from the 

 Gault and carboniferous. Wanted, lignite, peat, anthracite, 

 native atum, native nitre, and Cornish rocks and minerals, — 

 E. Dixon, 55 Brownhill Road, Catford, S.E. 



Wanted, British shells in exchange for complete set of 

 . " Review of Reviews," and other good books, foreign stamps, 

 and land and freshwater shells. — A. Alletsee, 40 Milward 

 Crescent, Hastings. 



Wanted, British land and freshwater shells, in exchange 

 for rare and local South of Ireland plants.— R. A. Phillips, 

 Ashburton, Cork. 



Offered, Quadrant tandem bicycle and two ladies' bicycles, 

 nearly new. Required, microscope, camera, books, or offers. 

 — W. Kirk, 20 Lombard Street, West Bromwich. 



Offered, Kirby's "European Butterflies and Moths" (61 

 coloured plates). Wanted, Newman's " British Butterflies 

 and Moths."— T. Fletcher, 20 Park Road, W. Dulwich. 



Wanted, gatherings of living diatoms, either freshwater or 

 marine. Good exchange in mounted diatoms. — I. B. Bessell, 

 F.R.M.S., 8 Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



Pandora in&gucvalvis in exchange for Venus sulcata. — 

 H. Milnes, Winster, Derby. 



Offered, a collection of fossil shells from Paris Basin, 

 middle and lower tertiary formations. Best offer accepted.— 

 P. R. Shaw, 48 Bidston Road, Birkenhead. 



I have a number of bred (perfect) specimens of A. ricini 

 (N. American silk-moth), and shall be glad to exchange pairs 

 for other foreign lepidoptera. State exchange.— Mark L, 

 Sykes, 31 Derby Street, Moss Side, Manchester. 



Wanted, specimens of recent or fossil echinoderms, star- 

 fish, &c, from any strata or locality. Offered in exchange, 

 fossils, shells, or lepidoptera. — F. Stanley, " Rokeby," Edgar 

 Road, Margate. 



Wanted, Avicula cygnipes, Terebratula hasata, Ammonites 

 Jurensis. Amm. spinatus, Amm. planorbis, Amm. capri- 

 cornits, Amm. Humphricsianus, Stringoctpltalus. Any of the 

 following in exchange: — Ostrea Alarskii, Calymene Blnnten- 

 bachii, P/utcops candatus, section of ammonite, Amm. bifrons, 

 Holectypus depressus, Spirifera plenus, Productus semireti- 

 culatus. — P.J. Roberts, n Back Ash Street, Bacup. 



Sixty named specimens of New Zealand shells, also thirty 

 different New Zealand and Australian copper tokens. What 

 offers in birds' eggs and nests, or birds' skins.— G. W. Wright, 

 Karanaghape Road, Auckland, N.Z. 



Duplicates.- — Sphcerium ovale, S. ovale, translucent var., 

 Zonites draparnaldi. Helix arbustorum, var. canigonensiJ. 

 Planorbis dilatatus. Desiderata, Vertigo angustior, Vertigo 

 pusilla, Succinea oblonga, Limnaa involuta, foreign shells 

 not in collection. — R. Wigglesworth, 13 Arthur Street, Clayton- 

 le-Moors, Accrington. 



Wanted, side-blown eggs of heron, razorbill, guillemot, 

 shag, cormorant,, gannet, gulls, hawks, larks, warblers, and 

 many others, in exchange for rare duplicates. — Jas. Ellison, 

 Steeton, Kei l 'ey. 



For exchange, beautifully polished specimens of carboni- 

 ferous limestone and other corals. Wanted, Gault ammonites 

 and chalk fossils, or any good offer in fossils. — W. F. Holroyd, 

 Science Master, Greenfield, near Oldham. 



Offered, Blackie's "Imperial Bible Dictionary," 6 vols., 

 gs. 6d. each, 1886. Wanted, Darwin's works to equal value, 

 or offers. — W. J. Pollard, 22 Fairfield Terrace, Bedminster, 

 Bristol. 



Will any gentleman kindly name some entomological speci- 

 mens for me? — John A. Ellis, 1 Pomona Place, Fulhaoi, 

 London, S.W. ' 



For exchange, a number of long-eared owl's egg=. Wanted, 

 Norfolk plover, nightjar, petrels (leach and fork-tailed), raven, 

 oriole, or any of rarer hawks. Also several clutches of common 

 sandpipers eg^s. Wanted in exchange, dunlins', redshanks', 

 jays', bullfinches' ; other offers considered. The eggs are all 

 side-blown, and taken by me here this season. — R. Armstrong, 

 B.A.. Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



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

 "The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club" (London: 

 Williams & Norgate). — "Natural Science" (London and New 

 York: Macmillan & Co.) — "On the Origin of Elementary 

 Substances, and on Some New Relation of their Atomic 

 Weights," by Henry Wilde, F.R.S. (London: Kegan Paul, 

 Trench, Trubner & Co.)— "Charles Moor, F.G.S., and his 

 Work," by H. H. Windwood, M.A., F.G.S. ; with a List of 

 the Fossil Types and described Specimens in the Bath Museum, 

 by Edward Wilson, F.G.S. (Bath: printed at the Herald 

 Office). — "The Microscope" (The Microscopical Publishing 

 Company, Washington). — " Nature Notes " (London : H. 

 Sotheran & Co.) — "The Entomologist" (London: West, New- 

 man & Co.) — "The Annals and Magazine of Natural History" 

 (London: Taylor & Francis). — "The Midland Naturalist" 

 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.) — "The Maiden Natural 

 History Gazette" (C. W. Smith, Burlington Road, New- 

 Maiden). — "Butterfly and Moth Collecting," by G. E. Simms 

 (London : L. Upcott Gill). — " Proceedings of the Bristol 

 Naturalists' Society." — "The Microscope" (The Microscopical 

 Publishing Company). — " The American Monthly Micro- 

 scopical Journal."— "The Electric Light Popularly Ex- 

 plained," by A. Bromley Holmes [Bemrose & Sons, Limited, 

 London and Derby). — "The Botanical Gazette" (Bloomington, 

 Indiana). — "Daughters of Syria," Quarterly Record (Messrs. 

 Seelsy&Co., Essex Street).— "The British Moss-Flora," by 

 R. Braithwaite (London: 303 Clapham Road\ etc., etc. 



Communications received up to the iith ult. from: 

 F. T.— F. S. M.— G. B.— T. G.— F. R.— Rev. W. W. F.— 

 J. J. R.— J- S. L.— W. J. J., jun.— Dr. P. G. R— D. E. S.— 

 J. C. H.— P. W.— B. C— P. L. S.— J. S.— G. W. W.— 

 X. M.— J.— F. S.-C. W. M.-C. P. H.— G. W. C— F. W. 

 M. S.— E. D.— C. P. M.— J. H. B.— J. E. L.— T. W. W.— 

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

 —J. E— F. S.— W. F. H.— J. A. E.— P. R. S.— A. L.— 

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

 — C. R.— J. A. W.— A. B.-H. M.— T. D. A. C— A. A.— 

 J. S,— J. B. D.— B. A.— L. W. G.— R. S.— F. B.— Dr. 

 P. Q. K.— etc., etc. 



