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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



roaches, earwigs, and crickets (especially mole and field- 

 crickets). Offered, books, butterflies, and shells. — \V. Har- 

 court Bath, 195 Ladywood Road, Birmingham. 



Duplicate North. American land and freshwater shells. 

 Desiderata, European zonites, any locality, or shells not in 

 collection. — Robert Walton, M.A.A.C., Houghton Street, 

 Lower Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. America. 



Wanted, micro, accessories or slides, in exchange for 

 "Boy's Own Paper," vols, xii., xiii., 1890, 1891, and Science- 

 Gossip for 1888 and 1889, both in monthly parts.— C. W. Lyne, 

 18 The Avenue, Eastbourne. 



Wanted, foreign and British land and marine shells, and 

 birds' eggs; also tokens issued from the following places: 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, Sunderland, Stockton, South Shields, and 

 other north of England towns. Can offer in exchange foreign 

 stamps and coins.— J. S. Wood, Walker Gate, Northumberland. 

 Oldham 1 a, graptolites, trilobites, ammonites, polished 

 Devonian corals, Silurian and carboniferous fossils would be 

 given for early volumes or parts of "Journal of Society of 

 Chemical Industry," "Journal of Chemical Society," "Che- 

 mical News," Allen's "Commercial Organic Analysis," and 

 original parts of Dickens', Lever's, or Thackeray's works.— 

 G. W. Davies, F.C.S., 8 Longshut Lane, Stockport. 



Wanted, good secondhand cabinet for birds' eggs, con- 

 taining about 150 partitions. Please send offers to — W. G. 

 Clutten, 19 Berkeley Street, Burnley. 



A. compound monocular microscope with E eye-piece, 1 in., 

 i-in., and i-in. dividing lens, sliding-tube and fine screw adjust- 

 ment, stand, etc., all finished brass and lacquered. Wanted 

 in exchange, good i-plate camera, or offers, photographic or 

 microscopic. — Peter Kilgour, 164 Lochee Road, Dundee, N.B. 

 Exotic butterflies : Urania rkypheus, Orn. Brookiana, 

 Priamus, and Morpho cyPris, the four most beautiful butter- 

 flies known — five duplicates ; also many other rare and splendid 

 species. Also wings of morphos, uranias, etc., for the micro- 

 scope. — J. C. Hudson, Railway Terrace, Cross Lane, near 

 Manchester. 



L. C, 8th ed. Offered, 202, 271, 814, 923, 1192, 1540, 1720, 

 1726, 1745, 1760. Desiderata numerous.— T. M. Lowry, 

 Kingswood School, Bath. 



Wanted, eggs of kestrel, buzzard, kinefisher, tree-pipit, 

 shrike, woodpecker, sea-birds, goshawk, and many others, in 

 exchange for rare duplicates.— Jas. Ellison, Steeton, Keighley. 

 Wanted, well-mounted microscopical slides of pathogenic 

 bacilli, comma, anthrax, etc., in exchange for West African 

 insects, all orders, and land shells. — Dr. Clements, Frindsbury, 

 Rochester. 



Wanted, some pups of Smerinthus ocellatus, S. fopuli, 

 and larvae of Lasiocampa quercifotia ; also pupse of Telea 

 cynthia, Samia cecropia, etc. (from America preferred). Will 

 give good returns ; store-boxes, book pattern, perfectly new, 

 etc., offered. Write for particulars. — R. Laddiman, 25 Hel- 

 lesdon Road, Norwich, England. 



Wanted, a few numbers of " Nature," 1892 preferred. Will 

 give Alston Moor minerals in exchange. — William Hethering- 

 ton, Nenthead-by-Carlisle. 



L. C, 8th ed. : 65, 115, 137, 145, 315, 320, 335, 402, 493, 503, 

 5*5, 544» 574. 587. 636, 648, 691, 705, 771, 783, 885, 942, 955, 

 958, 1013, 1097, 1100, 1101, 1116, 1126, 1134, 1142, 1262, 1316, 

 1324, 1427, 1437, 1465, 1476, 1477, 1479, 1496, 1497, 15 10, 1529, 

 1533. 1538, 1544. 1570. 1616, 1698, 1755, 1757, 175.3. Desiderata 

 in cyperacea; and graininea; particularly wanted.— W. Biddis- 

 combe, 60 St. James's Place, Plumstead, Kent. 



Offered, "History and Natural Arrangement of Insects," 

 Swainson and Stuckard, Newman's " Entomologist," Nos. 1 

 to 6, containing analytical notice of above work, "Lectures on 

 Entomology," by J. B. Burton {coloured plates), Wood's 

 "Aquarium" (plain plates). Exchange land or freshwater 

 shells, coleoptera, lepidoptera, or birds' eggs. — C. Coles, 

 61 Barrington Road, Brixton, London. 



Offered, Helix rlwdoclieila, etc., for helices not in collec- 

 tion. Also flint arrow-heads, etc., cave period, from South of 

 France.— W. A. Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Offered, Quadrant tandem bicycle, and two ladies' bicycles, 

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

 W Kirk, 20 Lombard Street, West Bromwich. 



Duplicate clutches of great northern diver, fulmar, Manx 

 shearwater, red-breasted merganser, carrion crow, little grebe, 

 ring-dove, sooty tern; couples, mute swan, Canada goose, 

 capercaillie, side-blown and with data. Wanted, others. — 

 F. W. Paple, 62 Waterloo Street, Bolton. 



Wanted, good botanical slides, also any of the following 

 shells: Vertigo Moulinsiana, var. pus ilia, Limneza involuta. 

 Acme lincata, Avicula kintndo, Isocardia cor, Terehratula 

 caput-serpentis, in return for other rare shells, microscopic 

 objects, etc.— T. E. Sclater, Natural History Stores, Teign- 

 mouth. 



The "Entomologist," 7 vols., bound, 1882-88. Will ex- 

 change for back numbers of Science-Gossip previous to 1884, 

 1876 excepted, or botanical works.— G. E. Nowers, Blackpool 

 Street, Burton-on-Trent. 



A microscope by Johnson, 1 in. and i-in. objectives, spot 

 ens, line troughs, condenser by Baker, and about four dozen 

 choice slides, etc. Exchange for a safety bicycle of good 

 make.— HeatoD, 80 Frampton Park Roid, South Hackney. 



Duplicates. — A. aglaia, V. Atalanta, V.cardui,S. hyf>er- 

 anthus, C. davus, C. painphilus, L. Alexis, Z. lo?iicer<£, C. 

 yacobaa, C. caja, L. monadia, and eggs, A. uhnata, eic. 

 Wanted, marine or exotic shells.— J. W. Boult, 17 Finsbury 

 Grove, Fountain Road, Hull. 



Good fossils offered in exchange for British dragon-flies, — 

 A. Tarver, n Westbury Road, Croydon, Surrey. 



Offered, sets and eggs of peregrine, chough, s. hawk, 

 dipper, stonechat, goldcrest, coal-tit, long-tailed tit, creeper, 

 rock-pipir, corn-bunting, reed-bunting, twite, hooded crow, 

 magpie, nightjar, rock dove, pheasant, ringed plover, oyster- 

 catcher, c. sandpiper, snipe, landrail, mute swan, tufted duck, 

 red-breasted merganser, little grebe, gannet, cormorant, shag, 

 black guillemot, ringed guillemot, razor-bill (white), puffin, 

 swift tern, noddy, herring gull, kittiwake, Manx shearwater, 

 storm-petrel, and nests with small eggs. Wanted, complete 

 clutches equally good. — R. J. Ussher, Cappagh, Lismore, 

 Ireland. 



What offers in foreign land, freshwater or marine shells, for 

 good live shells of isocardia, pinna, Fjtsus antiquits, etc. ? — 

 F. W. Walton, Mount Stuart, Rothesay. 



Offered, British and foreign land, freshwater and marine 

 shells, darts of helices, etc. Wanted, foreign shells. Foreign 

 correspondence desired. — A. Hartley, 14 Croft Street, Idle, 

 near Bradford, Yorkshire. 



What offers for "The Student," vol. ii. (half-bound); 

 Science-Gossip for 1890 (unbound), and General Index to- 

 same for first 12 vols.; "The Ludgate Monthly," vol. i. in 

 7 parts (unbound); Harris and Power's "Manual for Physio- 

 logical Laboratory," 4th ed.? — E. Pratt, Northendene, Streat- 

 ham Common, S. W. 



Duplicates. — Ova of Liparis salicis, Hespialus kectus 

 and velleda. Desiderata, lepidoptera in any stage not in 

 collection.— Thos. Sparkes, 92 Hey wood Street, Moss Side, 

 Manchester. 



Wanted, H. nemoralis and /torleusis with band formulas : 

 I2 3°5» 12340, 12005, 12 3°°, 02045, 02305, 02340, 10305, 10340, 

 12005, 12040, 02005, 02040, 02300, 10040, 12000, 10000, 02000, 

 in exchange for others or fossils. — G. K. Gude, 5 Gresbach 

 Road, Upper Holloway, N. 



Wanted, foreign land shells in exchange for European and 

 exotic butterflies, or moths. List sent. — Col. Parry, 18 Hyde 

 Gardens, Eastbourne. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



"The Migration of Birds," by Charles Dixon (London: 

 Chapman & Hall). — " Smithsonian Report " for 1890 (Washing- 

 ton : Government Printing Office). — " Missouri Botanical 

 Garden Report," 1892 (St. Louis, Mo., published by the Board 

 of Trustees). — "The Entomologists' Record" (London: EllioE 

 Stock). — " Bulletin of the Microscopical Society of Calcutta." 

 — "The Fauna and Flora of Gloucestershire," by Chas. A. 

 Witchell and W. Bishop Strugnell, assisted by numerous con- 

 tributors (Stroud : Geo. H. James). — "A Primer on the Art of 

 Massage," for learners, by Dr. Stretch Dowse (Bristol: John 

 Wright & Co. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, 

 Kent & Co. Ltd.). — "Woodwork, Carpentry and Joinery," 

 by Thos. C. Simmonds. (London : Bemrose & Sons, 32, Old 

 Bailey; and Derby). — " The Truth about Alcoholic Drinks," 

 scientifically considered, by W. K. Fulleylowe. (Coventry: 

 Curtis & Beamish). — " Journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society," (London : Williams & Norgate). — " Penzance 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Society." (Plymouth : 

 William Brendon & Son). — "The Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History." (London : Taylor & Francis).—" Nature 

 Notes," The Selborne Society's Magazine. (London : H. 

 Sotheran & Co.). — " Geological Magazine." (London : Kegan 

 Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.) — " The Entomologist." (Lon- 

 don : West, Newman & Co.) — "The Naturalist." (London: 

 Lovell Reeve & Co.)— "The Botanical Gazette." (Bloom- 

 ington, Indiana). — " The Naturalist's Journal," July and 

 August. " Proceedings of the Geologist's Association," 

 (London: Edward Stanford). — "The Art of Modelling in Clay 

 and Wax," by Thos. C. Simmonds. (London : Bemrose & 

 Sons).—" Supplementary Report upon the Testaceous Mollusca 

 of the L.M.B.C. District," by the late Francis Archer, B.A. 

 — " Experimental Evolution," by Henry de Varigny, D. Sc. 

 (London : Macmillan & Co.), etc , etc. 



Communications received up to the iith ult. from: 

 W. W.— W. W. B.— J. E N.— C. H. A.— W. T. S.— J. I. W.— 

 G. T. W.— W. P. W.— W. H. G.— A. H. D.— D. S. S.— W. 

 H. N.— W. L.-S. C— C. M.— H.— A. H. S.— J. S. W.-W. 

 G.— C. W. L.— W. L.— E. D. M.— J. H.-L. G.— J. G.— T. A. 

 W. R.— W. K. F.— I. I. V.— R. W.— W. H. B.— A. E.— L. C. 

 H-— T. E. S.— T. M. L.— W. H.— W. H. B.— W. A. G.— E. 

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

 W.— K.— R. J. U.— G. R.— W. G. C— J. E.— G. W. D.— E. 

 M. N.— G. E. N.— T. H. E. A.— W. G. C— J. C. H.— R. T.— 

 M. L. S.— P. K.— R. B.— A. H. S.-G. K. G.— G. S. P.— V. 

 C. M.— W. M. R.— W. P.-F. Z. S.— T. H. W.— E. B.— D. 

 C— E. K.— J. W. T.— etc., etc. 



