turning metals and other substances.-Sealed 19th December-6 months for inrolment.

To James Berington, of Winckworth-place, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, gentleman, and Nicholas Richards, of Camomile-street, in the city of London, builder, for their invention of certain improvements in curing or preventing smokey chimneys, which improvements are also applicable to the purposes of ventilation.Sealed 19th December-6 months for inrolment.

To Christopher Nickels, of Guildford-street, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, and Henry George Collins, of Queen-street, Cheapside, in the city of London, bookbinder, for his invention of improvements in bookbinding, parts of which improvements are applicable to the cutting paper for other purposes.-Sealed 19th December-6 months for inrolment.

To John Robertson, Jun., formerly of Tweedmouth, Berwick, now of Great Charlotte-street, Buckinghamgate, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for his inveniion of improvements of architecture, as regards its construction, or in the description or properties of the forms and combinations, and also of the superficial figures which may be employed; the application of these improvements or of the principles or method thereof, being also for supplying forms, figures, or patterns, in various arts or manufactures; also for an improvement or improvements with regard to the surfaces of buildings, whether interior or exterior, for protecting them from decay, and also giving them a more finished appearance.-Sealed 19th December-6 months for in

rolment.

To William Henry Pitcher, of the West India Dock House, Billiter-square, in the county of Middlesex, merchant, for his invention of improvements in the construction of docks, and apparatus for repairing ships

and vessels.-Sealed 19th December-6 months for inrolment.

To Neal Clay, of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, manufacturing chemist, for his invention of improvements in the manufacture of iron.-Sealed 19th December-6 months for inrolment.

To William Sandford Hall, of Strathearn Cottage, Chelsea, Lieutenant in the Army, for his invention of improvements in paddle-wheels.-Sealed 19th December-6 months for inrolment.

To William Henry James, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, civil-engineer, for his invention of certain improvements in telegraphic apparatus, and in the means of communicating intelligence by signals.Sealed 22d December-6 months for inrolment.

To Charles Button, of Holborn-bars, chemist, and Harrison Grey Dyar, of Mortimer-street, Cavendishsquare, gentleman, both in the county of Middlesex, for their invention of improvements in the manufacture of white-lead.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for in

rolment.

To William Brindley, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, patent paper-tray manufacturer, for his invention of improvements in the construction of presses.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment.

To William Losh, of Benton Hall, in the county of Northumberland, Esq., for his invention of improvements in decomposing muriate of soda (common salt), parts of which improvements are also applicable to the condensing vapours of other processes.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment.

To Jehiel Frankling Norton, of Manchester, merchant, for certain improvements on stoves or furnaces,

being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad. -Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment.

To John Elvey, of the city of Canterbury, in the county of Kent, millwright, for his invention of improvements in paddle-wheels.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment.

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL,

FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1837.

Remarkably mild on the 17th, and three following days; and 22nd, and three following days.

Edmonton.

CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

Latitude 510 37 32 N.

Longitude 3

51 West of Greenwich.

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No. LXXI.

Recent Patents.

TO MILES BERRY, of Chancery-lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer and mechanical draftsman, for a certain improvement or improvements in power looms for weaving, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-[Sealed 5th December, 1835.]

THESE improvements in power looms for weaving, consist in the adaptation of certain parts and appendages to a power loom, for the purpose of enabling such looms to weave bristles, horse-hair, whalebone, reeds, straw, cane, or other materials of limited lengths, as weft or shoot, with warps of silk, cotton, flax, wool, or other fibrous strands or threads for the production of webs for various useful purposes.

Plate XI., fig. 1, is a front elevation of a loom, capable of being worked by rotary power, to which the improved parts are attached. Fig. 2, is a horizontal view 2 M

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