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.