_Dollop_, subs. This word, as well as the one last-named, is very expressive in the vocabulary of the vulgar. It is applied to lumps of any substances, whether food or otherwise. Such a phrase as this might be heard: "What a _dollop_ of fat you have given me!" "Well," would be the reply, "if you don't like it, _clunk_ it at once." I should be glad to be enlightened as to the etymology of this term. ISAIAH W. N. KEYS. Plymouth, Devon. * * * * * Miscellaneous. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. A NARRATIVE OF THE HOLY LIFE AND HAPPY DEATH OF MR. JOHN ANGIER. London. 1685. MOORE'S MELODIES. 15th Edition. WOOD'S ATHENAE OXONIENSES (ed. Bliss). 4 vols. 4to. 1813-20. THE COMPLAYNTS OF SCOTLAND. 8vo. Edited by Leyden. 1804. SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS. Vol. V. of Johnson and Steevens's edition, in 15 vols. 8vo. 1739. *** _Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to send their names._ *** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. * * * * * {66} Notices to Correspondents. _Owing to the necessity of infringing on the present Number for the Title-page of our_ Seventh Volume, _we are compelled to omit many interesting communications, and our usual_ NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. ABREDONENSIS _must be referred to the_ Philosophical Transactions, vol. xliii. p. 249., _for a reply to his Query. It will be sufficient here to state, that the Willingham Boy was at his birth of gigantic form, and an object of great curiosity to the philosophical world. It is not stated how long he lived, or what education he received, so that we cannot ascertain whether he distinguished himself in any "department of literature or art."_ H. N. _will find in our_ Seventh Volume, p. 192., _that the quotation--_ "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love," &c., _is from J. P. Kemble's Comedy of_ The Panel, _altered from Bickerstaff's_ 'Tis well 'tis no worse. MR. POLLOCK'S PROCESS.--"_In answer to_ N. T. B., _a saturated solution of hypo. saturated with iodide of silver._ "21. Maddox Street. HENRY POLLOCK." T. B. (Coventry). _Paper positives are seldom varnished. The glossy appearance which they possess may depend either upon their being printed on albumenised paper, or upon their being hot-pressed. The latter process always much improves the picture. Where the size has been much removed, it is well to re-size the paper, which may be done by boiling a few parchment cuttings in water, and soaking the prints in the liquor._ H. H. H. (Ashburton). _All the best authorities concur in the uncertain properties of the salts of gold. We have seen some Daguerreotypes which have been executed about three years, and were treated with the salts of gold, and which are now mere shades._