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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP 



Miocene plants from CEningen, in collections of 20 to 200 

 species, offered in exchange for fossil plants from other locali- 

 ties.— B. Schenk, Naturalist, Ramsen (Schaffhausen), Switzer- 

 land. 



Foraminiferous sand (miocene) from New Zealand offered 

 for other foraminiferous deposits. — R. Haeusler, Aarburg, 

 Switzerland. 



Offered, 175 birds' eggs, sixty-four species, including many- 

 rare species. Wanted, microscope, field-glass, or entomological 

 specimens. — W. Roseburgh, 54 Market Street, Galashiels. 



Wanted, micro, mounts of the different alcoholic ferments, 

 or offers of unmounted material. — T. B., Conservative Club, 

 Hinckley. 



Offered, Pecien similis. Wanted, British marine shells 

 not in collection. — James Simpson, 6 North St. Andrew Street, 

 Aberdeen. 



Wanted, a good coal section, also slides of Distoma he- 

 paticum. Will give good exchange in other slides.— Geo. 

 Parish, 124 Kingston Road, Oxford. 



Spectroscope or micro, spectroscope wanted. Offered, 

 "Carpenter on the Microscope" (1881), and large quantity of 

 scientific and engineering books, with a Beck's Star Micro- 

 scope.— Dr. Taylor, 26 Marchmont Street, London. 



Quantity of lepidoptera, shells, and fossils, duplicates from 

 own collection, to exchange for others, or for war medals and 

 decorations, or masonic festival jewels. — Frederick Stanley, 

 M.C.S., Margate. 



I have several nice pieces of coral (brainstone, branching, 

 mushroom, red organ-pipe) to exchange for fossils. — Thomas 

 W. Reader, 171 Hemingford Road, London, N. 



Duplicates.— Rhamni, edusa, paphia, var. valezina, adippe, 

 Atalanta, Sibylla, Galathea, Semele, Adonis, Corydon, Jacobsea, 

 hirtaria, perla, etc. ; also foreign butterflies. Desiderata, 

 other lepidoptera or offers. — A. H. Shepherd, 81 Corinne Road, 

 Tufnell Park, London. 



Wanted, entomological apparatus and microscopical acces- 

 sories in exchange for insects, reptiles, or microscopic animals 

 from here.— F. W. Urich, Trinidad, B.W.I. 



Acme lineata, var. alba, Vertigo antivertigo, V. substriata, 

 V. alpestris, V. Pygmaa, V. pusilla, V. angnstior, Pupa 

 ringens, Helix pygmcea, and other rare shells offered in ex- 

 change for Limucea involuta, Succinea oblonga, and Helix 

 olrvoluta, — A. Hartley, 14 Croft Street, Idle, near Bradford, 

 Yorkshire. 



Offered, rare birds' eggs, corals, case of sponges and 

 gorgonias, and two charts of fossils. Desiderata, eggs, books, 

 good modern atlas, or aneroid barometer. — Jas. Ellison, Stecton, 

 Keighley. 



Wanted, Cambrian, gault, and Jurassic fossils, also magic- 

 lantern slides. Offered, Cornish rocks and minerals.— W. 

 Holver, British Schools, Truro. 



Wanted, named and localised specimens of fossils from the 

 Cambrian, Devonian, and Old Red Sandstone, carboniferous, 

 permian, triassic, Jurassic (oolites and lias) ; also the rarer 

 minerals, and latest edition of Lyell's "Principles of Geology," 

 and British Coleoptera. — Dr. J. Reecham Mayor, Heaton 

 Chapel, Manchester. 



Wanted, Cox's "Handbook of British Coleoptera." Ex- 

 change glass-topped and store-boxes, etc.— C. Coles, 61 Bar- 

 rington Road, Brixton, S-W. 



Duplicates for exchange, L. C, 8th ed. : — 41, 97, 116, 120, 

 i55» =73. 30Q, 3 8 3» 394. 395. 402, 633, 652, 824, 836*, 876, 885, 



898, 965, IO34, Io6l, IO75, IIOO, H34, 1147, H56, 1197,. I20I, 

 I238, 1240, I383, 1547, 1563, 1571, 1572. l6lO, 1628, 1629, 1643, 



1645, 1654, 1660, 1661, 1662, 1675, 1685, 1699, 3737. Deside- 

 rata many, especially local Scotch ana Irish. — A. H. Wolley 

 Dod, 31 Nightingale Place, Woolwich. 



Lepidoptera. — Lutosa, phragmitidis, gothica, petisitis, 

 gemina, thalacina, and baciHna, and a few others, all good and 

 perfect, in exchange for other moths or butterflies. — F. 

 Womersley, 22 Bewsey Road, Warrington. 



Science-Gossip for 1S83-84 wanted, bound or unbound. — 

 Mr. S. S. Piatt, C.E., King Street South, Rochdale. 



Offered, "Insect Variety," "Knowledge" for 1890 (pub- 

 lisher's binding), also for 1891 and 1892, unbound. Wanted, 

 Goebel's " Botany," Newman's "'Moths," Saunders' *' British 

 Birds," or works on chemistry or botany of recent date. — G. A. 

 Mitchell, 109 Forth Street, Glasgow. 



Wanted, lists of desiderata and duplicate specimens in 

 British mosses, for the purpose of mutual exchange. — E. J. 

 Elliott, Middle Street, Stroud, GIos. 



Duplicates. — S. populi, dispar, Jacohaa, caja (large), Chi. 

 mentkrasta, P. vaurium, L. manacha, P. gamma, A. 

 Cynthia, adippe, Atalanta, cardui, janira, phlacas, icarus, 

 and a lot of others, for shells, insects, etc., not in collection. — 

 W. Turnbull, 1 Home Terrace, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, fronds of common ferns, and common land and 

 freshwater shells in quantities. Insects, etc., in exchange. — 

 S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. 



A four-drawer egg-cabinet, containing a small collection 

 of English gulls' and wild birds' eggs, in exchange for foreign 

 coins or stamps. — Dr. Waters, 21 Westbourne Park Road, 

 Bayswater, London. 



Beetles. — Will exchange Australian queen beetles for 

 Aromia -mosclzata, Cctonia aurata, Trichius fasciatus, Lu- 



canus cervas, Cicindela campestrisy Typlueus vulgaris, or 

 others.— John M. Whitehead, Albert Place, Galashiels, N.B. 



What offers for a number of guides and text-books for the 

 London Matric. Exam., also several books on photography?— 

 Parritt, 8 Whitehall Park, Hornsey Rise, N. 



What offers in exchange for twenty years' Science-Gossip, 

 all complete, many bound in half-calf, all clean? — A. Draper, 

 Cemetery Road, Sheffield. 



Offered, three Looloo Islanders' grass dresses. Would 

 take history or science books in exchange. — Arthur J. Marks. 

 17 Gresley Road, Hornsey Lane, N. 



Wanted, good botanical, geological, and other microscopic 

 slides ; also wanted, rare British shells and silver coins (old 

 issues). Return made in shells, rare unmounted microscopic 

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

 mouth. 



Tokens of the following places wanted: Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, Durham, Darlington, S. Shields, Stockton, Bewick 

 Main Colly, and others issued from North of England. Also 

 rare birds* eggs, foreign land and marine shells, and corals. 

 Can offer in exchange foreign stamps and coins. — J. S. Wood, 

 Walker Gate, Northumberland. 



Offered, Sowerby's "Conchological Manual" (4th edition. 

 29 plates), and Wood's "Field Naturalists' Handbook.' 

 Wanted, good works on conchology, or rare foreign shells not in 

 collection — J. E. Cooper, 93 Southwood Lane, Highgate, 

 London, N. . 



Wanted, the two volumes of Claus and Sidgwick's 

 "Zoology" (English). Can offer in exchange a large series 

 of first-class marine microscopical slides.— S. C, Post Office, 

 Lower Tottenham. 



Cassell's "Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England 

 and Wales," complete in thirty jd. parts; quite new. What 

 offers in foreign shells?— F. C Long, 32 Woodbine Road, 

 Burnley, Lanes. 



Mr. Louis Giraux, 22 Rue Saint Blaise, Paris, offers 

 several hundreds of species of fossils, well named, of Parisian 

 tertiary beds, presented by very fine samples. He will accept 

 in exchange fossils, shells, and postage stamps. Forward lists 

 of exchange. French and English correspondence. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



" The Victorian Naturalist."—" British Fungus-Flora." — 

 "The Electric Light." — "The Entomologists' Record" (Lon- 

 don: Elliot Stock).— "Population and Social Reform," by 

 Harry Roberts (London: R. Forder, 28 Stonecutter Street).— 

 "The Beauties of Nature," by the Right Hon. Sir John 

 Lubbock, Bart., M.P. (London: Macmillan & Co.).— "The 

 American Monthly Microscopical Journal" (Chas. W. Smiley, 

 publisher, Washington).— "The Microscope" (The Micro- 

 scopical Publishing Co.).— "Journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society" (London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate).— 

 " Castorologia," by Horace T. Martin, F.Z.S., etc. (London: 

 Edward Stanford).— "The Botanical Gazette" (Bloomington, 

 Indiana).— "The Gentleman's Magazine" (London: Chatto 

 & Windus).— "The Great World's Farm," by Selma Gaye 

 (London : Seeley & Co.).—" Natural Science."—" Feuille des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes " (November number ). — " The Naturalist 

 [London: Reeve & Co.).— " The Entomologist" (London: 

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

 Simpkin & Marshall).— "Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club" 

 (October number).— " Nature Notes" {London: H. Sotheran 

 & Co.).— Geological Magazine " (London : Keean Paul, Trench, 

 Trubner & Co.).— Strange Survivals," by S. Baring Gould, 

 M.A. (London: Methuen & Co.)— " Catalogue of Eastern and 

 Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera," by Colonel C. Swinhoe, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc. (Oxford: Clarendon Press).— " Finger 

 Prints," by F Gallon, F.R.S. etc (London: Macmillan & 

 Co.).— "British New Guinea," by J. P. Thomson.— "The 

 History of Creation," from the German of Ernest HseckeJ, 

 translated by E. Ray Lankester, M.A., LL-D., etc. (London : 

 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.).— "Ancient History, 

 from the Monuments— Sinai," by the late Henry Spencer 

 Palmer (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge), etc , etc. 



Communications received up to the iith ult. from : 

 C. A. D.-H. N. H.-J. E. N.-J. T. D.-J. S.-H. P.— 

 A. H. S.-G. D.-H. D.-Mrs. C.-J. H. H.-F. S. J. P-- 

 C P.— L. C. K.— F. M. H.— E. A.— F. S. L.— C. B. M.— 

 T . A . P.— A. Y. M. M.-C. S. W.— T. H. B.— 0. A. S.— 

 I. M. W.— W. H. M.— J. T.— G. W.— F. W. N.— W. I. S.— 

 P T.— P. S. S.— W. A. B.— R. H. M.-H. W. P.— T. E. S— 

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

 —A. H. S.— F. S.— J. R. H.— Dr. T.— G. P.— J. S.— A. J. A. 

 -A- A.-A. H. W. D.-S. G— C. C.-W. H.-D. F. B.- 

 A. D.-J. E.-J. W. D. K.— W. A. P.— S. S. P.— A. V. M.— 

 G. A. M.-H. E. C.-W. T.-E. J. E.-J. S. W.-A. J. M.- 

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

 A c. W.— F. T.— C. C D.— E. A. M.— L. G.— F. C. L — 

 T E. C— H. E. G.—I. E- P-— R- A. C— D. T.— T. W. S.— 

 A S.— T. S. E.— R. T.— M. W. W,— Dr. S. E. J —etc., etc. 



