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HA R D WICKE ' S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



To our Recent Exchangers.— We are willing to be helpful 

 to our genuine naturalists, but we cannot further allow dis- 

 guised Exchanges like those which frequently come to us 

 to appear unless as advertisements. 



L. Wright. — Yes, stones do groiu, but they grow less! 

 that is by weather and chemical action. The too common 

 notion that "stones grow" (like potatoes) is absurd. The 

 idea usually applies to the stones ploughed up from the 

 boulder clays. 



Agrion. — Apply to Mr. W. Harcourt Bath, 193 Ladywood, 

 Old Birmingham. 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, a collection (herbarium specimens, accurately 

 named} of British grasses and sedges. — Mr. Turner, The 

 Gardens, Buile Hill, Pendleton, Manchester. 



B. Leachii, L. glabra, C. Rolphii, H . Jenkinsi, and many 

 others, offered in exchange for P. roseum, L. glabra, L. 

 radiatula, H. lamellata, H. revelata, etc. — Arthur S. Poore, 

 Seivour Cottage, Abbey Road, Belvedere, Kent. 



Jurassic brachiopoda from the Cotteswolds, offered for 

 brachiopoda from other localities. Lists exchanged. — Chas. 

 Upton, Merton Lodge, Stonehouse, Glos. 



Wantep, to exchange eggs of roseate tern, laughing gull, 

 noddy, sooty tern, Bartram's sandpiper, etc., for others not in 

 collection. Please send lists to — W. Wells-Bladen, Stone, 

 Staffs. 



Exotic butterflies: Urania rhypiuus, fulgens, Papilio 

 Paris, vernalis, Morpho Menelaus, Orji. Brookiana, aritaua, 

 and other rare and splendid species in duplicate ; also wings 

 of ditto for the microscope. Wanted, P. ascauhis, Photitius 

 cacicits, 'aristens, epaminondas, etc. — J. C. Hudson, Railway 

 Terrace, Cross Lane, Manchester. 



Wanted, odd vols, of Sowerby's "English Botany" (3rd 

 ed.), except 7, 8, and 9; also Boreau's "Flore du Centre." 

 Offered, classical or theological works. — E. F. Linton, 

 Crymlyn, Bournemouth. 



Micro, slides. Selected or strewn slides in exchange for 

 insect or botanical mounts. — T. B. Bessell, 8 Elmgrove Road, 

 Bristol. 



Offered, fossils and minerals from all formations, in ex- 

 change for modern theological works, bound volumes of 

 "Great Thoughts," or novels by G. Macdonald, J. M. Barrie, 

 or Conan Doyle. Good value given. Send lists to — James 

 Marsden, Enterprise Buildings, Preston. 



Van Tieghiem's "Traite de Botanique" (1891), Bower 

 and Vine's "Practical Botany (36 slides to illustrate same), 

 Strasburger's "Practical Botany," Asa Gray's "Structural 

 Botany," Aitken's "Botany," Morgan's " Flowering Plants," 

 and other Botanical works. Want works on Calculus, or high- 

 class geological literature, or rocks, minerals, rock slides, or 

 fossils. — Wilmore, Trawden, Lanes. 



Marine shells from New Zealand offered for foreign land 

 and freshwater shells, microscopic slides illustrating useful or 

 noxious insects, or botanical or entomological lantern slides. — 

 — W. A. Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Offered, a few butterflies and moths, English and Cana- 

 dian, in exchange for diptera, English or foreign. — Miss G. R., 

 25 Cleveland Square, London, W. 



Wanted, the skull of a dog.— Parritt, 8 Whitehall Park, 

 Hornsey Rise, N. 



For exchange, Cambrian and Silurian trilobites and grapto- 

 lites, corals, etc. Wanted, foreign shells and fossils from all 

 formations. Lists exchanged. — W. H. Banks, Ridgebourne, 

 Kington, Herefordshire. 



Wanted, the nests, cells of bees, and a few specimens of the 

 bees themselves ; also lantern-slides of animals and vegetables, 

 in return for my microscopical slides. Apply to the Rev. 

 J. E. Vize, Forden Vicarage, Welshpool. 



One hundred micro, slides in exchange for other slides, 

 material, accessories, or books.— John T. Neeve, 68 High 

 Street, Deal. 



What offers for 72 numbers of Science-Gossip, 1886-1892 ; 

 also 26 numbers of "Journal of Conchology," 1886-1892, in 

 good condition, some uncut? — T. E. Sclater, Natural History 

 Stores, 43 Northumberland Place, Teignmouth. 



Offered, preserved (dry) specimens of star-fish, sea-urchins, 

 etc., and microscopic material ; also " Dr. Carpenter on the 

 Microscope " (pub. 1857), 760 pages, 345 wood engravings. 

 Wanted, the rarer British land and freshwater shells, or foreign 

 shells.— F. W. Wotton, Mount Stuart, Rothesay. 



Science-Gossip wanted for 1869-74, and also for 1878, r88o, 

 1883, and 1884 ; must be clean and in good condition. — Walter 

 E. Collinge, Editor "The Conchologist," Birmingham. 



Wanted, single copies of " British Naturalist " for January, 

 1891, September to December (inclusive), 1891, and January 

 to September (inclusive), 1892. Offers to — E. W. Swanton, 

 Doddington, Sittingbourne. 



Fossils, etc., from Faringdon (sponges), Swindon, Devizes, 

 Isle of Wight, Barton clay, Isle of Purbeck, etc. ; also phos- 

 phatic chalk from Taplow, in exchange for fossils or other 



geological specimens. — A. C. Salter, 8 Venetia Road, Finsbury 

 Park, N. 



Wanted, material or dredgings containing foraminifera 

 from all parts of tiie world. I will give named and mounted 

 forms in exchange, or slides in other departments of micro- 

 scopy. — Frank S. Morton, *is8 Cumberland Street, Portland, 

 Maine, U.S.A. 



Wanted, "The Monthly Review," 23 volumes, 1793-1800. 

 Offers, conchological (British), microscopical, or as part ex- 

 change for telescope. — Rev. W. H. Skan, St. John's, Hendon, 

 Middlesex. 



Shells from the Pleistocene clays, Paisley, for exchange. 

 Wanted, foreign stamps, or geological or conchological litera- 

 ture. Lists exchanged. Sdence a negative. — Walter C. 

 Shields, 36 Garturk Street, Crosshill, Glasgow. 



Exchange— 8 vols. Waverly Novels (cost 72^. ), 2 vols. 

 " History of the World (half-calf, 2ts.), "Science and Art of 

 Religion" {js. 6d.), Figuier's "Human Race" (7^. 6d.), 

 "Dulce Domum" [5s.), vol. i. "Science Siftings " (bound, 

 5$. 6d.) ; the above all new; 5 vols. " Union Jack" (bound), 

 and many other books. No reasonable offer refused. Wanted, 

 Morgan's " Animal Biology," Huxley's " Biology," Hurst's 

 " Zoology," and other standard works on kindred subjects. — 

 Shoosmith, Stopsley, Luton, Beds. 



Wanted, "Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides," by 

 Buckley and Harvie-Brown. — P. Ralfe, 4 Queen's Terrace, 

 Douglas, I. of Man. 



Offered, a lapidary's hand-machine for cutting rock 

 sections, strong and well made Wanted, books on petrology 

 or geology, micro. -spectroscope, or offers. — R. de H. St. 

 Stephens, 25 Fordwych Road, West Hampstead, N.W. 



Colwnbetia mercatorea, Fissurella barbadensis, Phasiunella 

 barbadensis, Planaxis lineatus, Tellina Rombergii. 7'. 

 tigerina, Voluta musica, and other West Indian shells, 

 offered in exchange for land or marine shells not in collection, 

 or Lyell's "Student's Manual of Geology." Lists exchanged. 

 — J. Burman Rosevear, 51 Crouch Hill, London, N. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED FOR NOTICE. 



" Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society 

 and Field Club" (London: Gurney & Jackson).— " The 

 Entomologist's Record" (London: Elliot Stock). — "The 

 Naturalist's Journal" (London: W. Longley). — "The Cana- 

 dian Entomologist " (London : London Printing and Litho- 

 graphing Co.). — "Man and the Glacial Period," by G. F. 

 Wright, D.D., LL.D., etc. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 

 Triibner & Co.). — "A Memorial of Joseph Henry " (Washing- 

 ton: Government Printing Office). — " U.S. GeologicaliSurvey " 

 1889 and 1890 (Washington: Government Printing Office). — 

 "List of Members of the Geologists' Association" (London: 

 University College, Gower Street). — "The Botanical Gazette" 

 (Bloomington, Indiana). — "The Annals and Magazine of 

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

 Life" (Washington: Government Printing Office). — "Tech- 

 nics." — " Nature Notes " (London : H. Sotheran & Co.). — 

 " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalisles." — "The Naturalist" (Lon- 

 don: Lovell Reeve & Co.) — "The Chemistry of Life and 

 Health," by C. W. Kimmins, M.A. (London : Methuen & 

 Co.). — " Health and Beauty in Dress," by Mrs. Ada S. 

 Ballin (London: John Flack). — "The Geological Magazine" 

 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.). — "The 

 Mining, Manufacture, and Uses of Asbestos," by Mr. J. 

 Alfred Fisher (Office of " West Ham Guardian," Stratford). — 

 "The Midland Naturalist" (London: Simpkin, Marshall & 

 Co.). — " Observations on Dew and Frost," by the Hon. R. 

 Russell, F.R. Met. Soc. i(London: Edward Stanford).— " The 

 Idler " (London : Chatto & Windus). — " Baby" (London: The 

 Hansard Publishing Union). — Longman's "Notes on Books." 

 —"The Herald of Health" (London: Messrs. Nichols & Co.). 

 — "A Few Remarks on what has been done with Screw- 

 Propelled Aero-Plane Machines," by F. G. Stringfellow 

 (Chard: Young & Sons). — "The Building of the British 

 Isles," by A. J. Jukes-Browne, B.A., F.G.S. (London: 

 George Bell & Sons). — " Les Champignons de France," (Paris : 

 Imp. Hy. Tribout, to Rue Jacques Cour). — "Child-Life 

 Almanac," 1893. — "The Naturalist on the River Amazons," 

 by Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S. (London: John Murray, 

 Albemarle Street), etc., etc. 



Communications received up to the ioth ult. from : 

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

 E. H.— C. E. A. M.— R. S.— Mrs. A.— C. H. J. B.— E. W. S. 

 — H. C. S.— F. H. D.— P. R.— F. S. M.— Rev. W. H. S.— 

 J. L — A. D.— J. T.— D. J. B.— R. B. P.— M. A. D.— W. E. C. 

 — W. E. S.— W. C. S.— L. C. H. — E. A. M.— H. F.— F. W. W. 

 —J. E. V.— T. E. S.-I. T. N.— W. H. B.— H. W. P.— G. R. 

 — W. H. H.— W. A. G.-A. W.— J. M.— C. R— R. Botanic 

 Society.— J. E. C— C. H. B.— E. W. S.— J. C. S.— J. B. B.— 

 C. U. — E. H.— H. N. H— W. H. B.— J. T.— W. W. B.— 

 E. F. S.— P. G. K.— R. Institution.— H. G. W.— A. S. P.— 

 J. W. T.— J. W. D. K.— R. de H. St. S. — F. R.— J. B. R., 

 etc., etc. 



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