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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879-01-01 Excerpt: ...or Gosse's " Evenings with the Microscope," or Martin's "Manual of Microscopic Mounting," or Cook's "Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould."--A. C. King, South Parade, Ledbury. Offers in exchange (cither in foreign land, or foreign marine shells, the former most acceptable) for any of the following British land and freshwater shells which I have duplicate specimens of at present--namely, S. oblonga, Z. tnvoluta, L.. Burnetii, P. ringens, V. pusilla, V. snbstriata, V. alpestris, V. minutissima, V. angustior, V. Moulinsiana, --W. Sutton, High Claremont, Ncwcastle-on-Tyne. Exotic insects of every description from India, Peru, China, America. Java, Africa, Ceylon, &c., exchange arranged by letter. Foreign correspondence specially requested. Selections forwarded on approval, before exchanging.--Sissens, Sharrow, Sheffield. Living water newt (Lissotriton palmipes) in exchange for living polyzoa, &c.--J. B., 36 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow. Wanted, in exchange for fossils, seaweeds, and other natural objects, any old MSS. deeds, books, prints, &c., relating to Kent, Thanet, or Margate.--F. Stanley, Margate. Pathological crystals, cystin, leucin, tyrosin, &c., in exchange for good mounted or unmounted objects.--J. W.t 10 Evering Villas, Clapton, E. Small packet of diatomaceous earth (Stoneyford, Ireland) sent upon receipt of stamped envelope; any object of interest will be thankfully accepted. I have some very fine selected slides of diatoms, some arranged in pattern, that I will exchange for fragments of Hyalonema mirabilis, or other good spicula bearing sponges.--W. White, 18 Convent Street, Nottingham. Offbked Hooker and Baker's "Synopsis Filicum," 2nd ed., coloured plates. Wanted, Sach's "Text Book of Botany...
