ADVERTISEMENTS. 
V. 
To Collectors !—Send two half-penny stamps for prospectus and specimen copy 
of a new Monthly for collectors—A really interesting, bright and readable monthly 
budget of Notes and News for all who are interested in birds and insects. Remember 
to send two halfpenny stamps for particulars and specimen copy. Address.—Man¬ 
ager, “C. M,”38a, Upcerne Road, Chelsea, London, s. w. 
Wanted by the Naturalists’ Publishing Company, Birmingham, 100,000 works 
relating to all branches of Natural History (new or second-hand) ; state price and 
condition. 
EXCHANGES. 
Articles for Exchange and Wanted (not involving a money transaction) are adver¬ 
tised in this column without charge ; an advertisement must not contain more than 
forty words. 
W 7 ANTED.—Live specimens of Helix pomatia. Will give shells, fossils, or minerals, 
in exchange.—C. A. Benn, Pudleston Court, Leominster. 
Fossils.— Large quantity of fossils from nearly all the British strata. Offers 
requested in foreign land shells, British land and marine shells, or old collection of 
postage stamps.— Cairns. Queen Street, Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne. 
Lepidoptera.—D uplicates : fine Conflua from Shetland, also young larvae of Sau- 
cia. Desiderata : healthy pupae of any species.—T. Salvage, Arlington, .Sussex. 
Lepidoptera.—W ill exchange 50 pupae Carpini for any Southern Lepidoptera or 
pupae.—W. L. Carter, Summergate, Parkinson Lane, Halifax. 
Lep idoptera.—A bout 50 British butterflies in papers, 1 2 species, including Paphia 
Adippe , Atalanta, Megcera , W-album , etc. Exchange for well-set specimens of 
Rhccmni, Aglaia, Selene , Polychloros , Sybylla, Galatea , and Cardui; liberal exchange 
effected.—Ernest H. Blackmore, 13 Bull Ring, Ludlow. 
Wanted.—N ewman’s British Butterflies and Moths, in one volume : will exchange 
birds eggs, side blown, in clutches or singles.-—H. L. Wood, Old Grammar School 
House, Ashford, Kent. 
Wanted.—A pair of dormice, not with cage, will exchange books, etc., including 
new “ Nicholas Nickleby ” (2/6).—R. M. A. Eaton Turner, 58 Adelaide Square 
Bedford. 
Coins.— 30 coins, all different, several silver, many good ; will exchange for books, 
birds’ eggs, skins, insects, or other Natural History objects.—S. D. C., 213, Sher¬ 
wood Street, Nottingham. 
British Birds’ Eggs for exchange.—cormorant, kittiwake, lesser black-backed 
gull, guillemot, razorbill, Norfolk plover, etc. Also good lepidoptera in exchange for 
British birds’ eggs. Send for list.—E. G. Potter, 19, Price Street, York. 
Birds’ Eggs.—O ffered : eggs of twite, capercaillie, raven, merlin, great grey 
shrike, bee-eater, eagle od, pochard, nonpariel, ring-ouzel, crested tit, ptarmigan, 
&c. Wanted : hawks, shrikes, owls, great crested grebe, terns, swift, nightingale, 
wood wren, buzzard, plovers, gulls, and many common sorts, side blown with one 
hole.—J. Ellison, Steeton, Keighley. 
Books.—O ffered: “Boy’s Own Paper'’Vol. 9 (bound), Vols. 10, 14, 15, (parts), 
and “ Boys ” Vol, 1. Wanted: Brown’s “Practical Taxidermy,” Wood’s “Field- 
Naturalists’ Hand-book,” St. John’s “Larva-collecting and breeding,” and Wood’s 
“Fresh and Saltwater Aquarir.t is.”—E. H. Blackmore, 13, Bull Ring, Ludlow. 
Duplicates.—A bout 500 species of British coleoptera, all correctly named and 
neatly carded, including man.’ rare and local. Desiderata: British and foreign 
coleoptera and foreign diurni.— A. Ford, Glen Mount, Braybrooke Rd., Hastings. b 
Vipers.—W ill any readers kindly send me what information they may possess as 
to the distribution of the Viper in Cornwall ? I shall be pleased to send shells, micio- 
slides, books, etc. in return for spirit specimens of this reptile from any British locality 
or will purchase examples.-George Mason, 203, Ebury Street, Eaton Square, London 
