The NATURALIST. 



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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Hertfordshire Natural Hist. Society's Transactions — \'ol. ULpts. i & 2. [Society. 

 Scient. Trans. Royal Dublin Soc, Vol. I. pts. 20 to 25, Vol. TIL pts. i to 3. [Society. 

 Scient. Proc. Royal Dublin Soc, Vol IH. pts. 6 to 7, Vol. IV. pts. i 104. [Society. 

 The Honey-Bee, its nature, homes, &c. — W. H. Harris. 8vo. 272 pp. [Reli.T. S. 

 *Rotherham Naturalists' Soc. — Records & Observations. No. i, July 1884. [Society. 

 South Lond. Micro. & Nat. Hist. Club. — 13th Rpt., &c. INIar. 1884, 32 pp. [Society. 

 Chester Soc. of Nat. Sci. — Hand-b. Nat. Hist, for Conversaz., (S:c. 1884, 28 pp. [Soc. 

 *The ' Entomologist ' Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera. [West, Newman & Co. 

 Synopsis of the Bacteria and Yeast Fungi. — By W.B. Grove, 1884. [Chatto&Windus. 

 The Dynamo, how made and how used. — S. R. Bottone, 1884. [Sonnenschein & Co. 

 Flowers : a Fantasy. — Cornelia Wallace, 1884. [Sonnenschein & Co. 



Series of Young Collector's Handbooks. Various authors. 1 Sonnenschein & Co. 

 A season among the Wild Flowers^ — Rev. H. Wood, 1883. [Sonnenschein & Co. 



jMemoirs marked * will be noticed in our Annual Bibliography of the Literature of the Physi- 

 cal Features and Natural History of the North of England. 



EXCHANGES. 



Notices of Exchange inserted free of chaj'ge to Sitbscribers. 

 Lichens. — Wanted, 'British Graphideae,' By Rev. W. A. Leighton, B.A. — 

 Frederic Bower, 6, Dryden Street, Chorlton-on-Med!ock, Manchester. 



Shells. — Wanted, Pisidiitm nitidion, P. roseiim, P. Benslowamcm, P. 

 ciyiereiun.) P. pidchelhim. Vertigo Lilljeborgi {West.), V. Mo7ilinsiana {Ihip.), V. 

 tumida, V. alpestris, V. piisilla, V. angiistior, V. tnimdissinia, and Planorbis 

 glaber. Will exchange for either of these a 4^ in. Unio pictoriini from Ossingtcn 

 (See Naturalist, Aug., p. 20), or other Unios, Anodons, &c. State wants. — W. Gain, 

 Tuxford, Newark. 



Plants — Duplicates of Nos. (L.C. 7th edit.) 40, 41. 42, 131, 270, 273, 274, 

 275, 280, 374, 398, 406, 564, 568, 572, 576, 577, 587, 594, 813, 823, 835, 856, 

 858, 998, 999, 1,008, 1,031, 1,039, 1040, 1261, 1,265, I5280, 1,281, 1,282, 1,283, 

 1,285, 1,290, 1,291, 1,294, 1,296, 1,297, 1.305, 1. 311, 1.316, 1,3*18, 1,323, 1,325, 

 1,327, 1,330, 1,333, Ij334» &c. — H. Goss, Berrylands, Surbiton Hill. Surrey. 



Duplicates. — Catlow's ' Greenhouse Botany'; Lubbock's 'Ants, Bees and 

 Wasps'; birds' eggs. Desiderata. — Any spare ova, larvce, pupse or imagos 

 of Lepidoptera (preferred), or rare birds' ejigs. Lists exchanged. — A. E. Hall, 

 Norbury, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. 



Common Field-slugs wanted alive from any of the following 



counties: — Channel Isles, E. Cornwall, Devon, Wilts, Dorset, Lie of Wight, 

 Sussex, E. Kent, N. Essex, Berks, Oxon, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Beds, 

 Hunts, Monmouth, Salop. Cheshire, W. Lancashire., Northumberland, Cumberland. 

 Isle of Man, and any Scottish, Welsh, or Irish counties. Should be sent alive 

 in tin box. State desiderata in Shells. — W. Denisox Roeuuck, Sunny Bank. Leeds. 



