to call forth a superior degree of genius in design, and skill in execution.

No. 1538, a two oared skiff, built by James & Joseph Albertson, Beach street, Kensington, with an oak frame, cedar planking, copper fastened throughout, and having the rowlocks faced with brass; is an elegant piece of workmanship, and deserves the first place in this department. For this we recommend the award of a silver medal.

No. 1631, copying presses, of excellent workmanship, by Charles Evans, of Philadelphia, deserves a silver medal.

No. 1503, a horizontal steam engine, built by James Brooks, of Frankford, acting as the motor of the working models in the lower saloon, appears to be a good and serviceable piece of work, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1504, a locomotive boiler, built by J. W. & J. F. Starr, of Kensington, which is now employed to supply steam to the preceding engine, is an excellent specimen of work, and fully sustains the high reputation of that well known firm; it deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1516, a slide rest, by William Bien, of Philadelphia, is well. made, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1530, a box of shuttles, by E. S. & R. O. Tripp, of Trenton, N. J., are very well made, and deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1531, four platform scales, made by J. D. Dale, of Lansingburg, N. Y., appear to be of a very serviceable character, and deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1570, an ice apparatus, which, by distributing water upon a plane surface in thin jets, appears to be well calculated to make ice of a considerable thickness, at temperatures but little below the freezing point; it deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1577, a log brace for saw-mills, by Mr. Cushwa, of Washington county, Md., is designed to support the middle of a log near the saw, by means of a roller and lever; this seems to be a useful contrivance; it supplies a want often felt in cutting long timber, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1582, an apparatus for corking bottles of mineral water, is a machine ingeniously devised, by D. C. Palmer, to cork up gaseous waters without loss of gas; and it deserves a certificate of honorable mention, both for its design and workmanship.

No. 1583, a sub-soil plough, by D. O. Prouty, dealer in agricultural implements, is a good specimen of this new tool, which is producing such admirable effects in England, when properly applied to the tillage of soils; and we think it deserving of a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1596, an abridged set of stencil plates, by George W. Duncan, of Philadelphia, in which, by a judicious arrangement of straight and curved slits, representing the elementary lines which form letters, and numbers, the whole alphabet, and all the digits are produced with facility; this deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1598, a small lathe, by William M. Davis, machinist, Philadelphia, of which the work is of a fair character, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1617, fire proof chest, water coolers and filters, by David Evans, of Philadelphia, the fire proof having an escutcheon that masks the keyhole in a manner so ingenious and effectual, as to make it very difficult for any one not possessed of the secret, to effect an entrance. All the articles exhibited by Mr. Evans, are creditably made, and deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1618, hatters' heating irons, by John McCoun, are good specimens of work, and deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1619, three bricks, made by George Snyder, are very smooth, well shaped, and dense; they seem to be machine made, and deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1634, several shuttles, for looms, by Ellis Jackson, of Philadelphia, are very well made, and deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1640, a power loom shuttle, by Jacob Senneff, is a neat piece of workmanship, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1654, a blacksmith's bellows, by S. W. Metz, of Philadelphia, is very well made; it has a new mode of inserting the tuyere pipe, which appears to be a real improvement, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1661, Laubauch's patent blacksmith's tuyere, deposited by John Murphy, of Philadelphia, furnishes an efficient blast from the bottom of the fire; it has been very favorably reported upon by the Committee on Science and the Arts, and well deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1665, a model of a hipped roof slated, by Wm. Elliott, blue slater, of Francisville, in which plane, diamond, spade, and scale slating, are very neatly executed upon the four pitches of the model roof; these several varieties, with sufficient fineness of finish, give indications of being perfectly weather proof, and well deserve a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1689, a small steam engine, by Greer, Amer & Newell, of Philadelphia, made upon the plan long since used by Mr. Greer, of causing the supply pump to form the piston guide, is a very good and substantial piece of work, which has all the requisites of a serviceable engine, without any extraneous display. This machine well deserves a certificate of honorable mention, if not a silver medal.

No. 1702, a machine for cutting tenons, by Mahlon Gregg, of Philadelphia, is well made, appears to be efficient, and deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

No. 1715, a slide lathe rest, by J. H. Schrader, Philada., is made with very great nicety; it possesses all the requisites of this important appendage to the lathe, and, in addition, has regulating screws to give it the proper direction in conical and angular tenoning. This well deserves a certificate of honorable mention.

A number of models of locomotive and other steam engines, were before us, in which we could trace such disproportion amongst the

parts, and such defects in plan, that if it were not for the fact, that their errors are generally so glaring, we could wish them dismissed from the exhibition, but which, as it is, will but form exemplars, not to be imitated by the young mechanic.

Stillman & Co., of the Novelty Works, New York, exhibit a small horizontal steam engine, of which the workmanship is fair, and some of the parts of which are very well arranged, but came too late for competition.

Landreth & Munns, D. O. Prouty, and Edwin Chandler, dealers in agricultural implements, deposit a number of tools of value to the farmer, amongst which we notice some excellent corn shellers, straw cutters, ploughs, and winnowing machines, all apparently well made, and efficient implements of tillage.

James Young, of the patent agency, No. 50 Commerce street, Philadelphia, exhibits a number of ingenious machines of considerable value in various branches of industry.

To Landreth & Munns, D. O. Prouty, Edwin Chandler, and James Young, we recommend the award of certificates of honorable mention, for the number and general ingenuity of the machines exhibited by them.

Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, exhibits a self-adjusting counter spring, which deserves to be brought before the Committee of Science and the Arts; he also exhibits a capital rectangular provision chest and water filter, with an ice apartment, which, after a whole summer's use, appears to be as good as if new.

B. G. Wilder, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., exhibits several of those celebrated salamander book safes, which stood so well an actual test by fire in the city of New York some time ago; they seem to deserve their reputation, and we regret that they came too late for competition.

W. H. Howard exhibits a machine for pressing hats and bonnets, which, in point of ingenuity of design, and excellence of workmanship, is not surpassed by any machine in the exhibition; it seems, in all respects, to be admirably adapted for its purpose, and we must regret that the late hour of its arrival, deprives us of the pleasure of awarding to it a premium, such as it well deserves.

Cottrall's lattice weighted bridge, possesses peculiarities which render it a fit subject for examination by the Committee of Science and the Arts.

Gideon Cox, of Philadelphia, exhibits a variety of specimens of wooden ware for household use, all of which are well made, and appear to be very well adapted to their several purposes. We recommend the award of a certificate of honorable mention to Mr. Cox, for the superior wooden ware exhibited.

Professor Cresson, of the Gas Works, deposits a small iron steamboat, called the "Coquette," which has two small horizontal engines, and has been run at the rate of seven miles per hour; it deserves notice, as adding another to the many successful examples of the

superiority of iron over wood, as a material for the construction of vessels.

Jordan L. Mott's stationary cowl, or ventilator, No. 7, of his advertisement, richly deserves a certificate of honorable mention, if not a medal, as Ewbank's experiments have proved it to be much superior to a cone, showing its apex to the wind, as well as to other forms in common use. Besides, being stationary, it neither screeches when the wind blows, nor is it at all likely to get out of order, there being no moving, or wearing parts.

In fine we think we can perceive, in the style of the workmanship on some of the machines now exhibited, a sure precursor of future triumphs for American artisans, so soon as the several branches of mechanical industry shall extend themselves further, and occupy more ground in the field of utility.

Report on Stoves, Grates, &c.

The Committee of Judges on Stoves, Grates, &c., have examined the numerous collection of stoves and cooking ranges, and have been gratified to witness the spirited competition which exists among the manufacturers of these important appliances of domestic economy.

This branch of manufactures appears to have attained to one of those stages of maturity at which the further progress of improvement seems to be for a season stayed. Certain general principles, founded on reason and experiment, have been developed and applied to practice, under so many modifications of form, that the ingenuity of inventors is at a stand.

The parlor and hall stoves exhibit under various forms, modified according to the fancy of the maker, but generally involving the principle of diffusing the heat of the fire over an extensive radiating surface; a principle of acknowledged excellence, but one which may be, and is sometimes, carried so far as to impair too much the draught of the fire. The stoves of this class which are thought most worthy of notice, are

No. 1501, a radiator, by Pleis, Færing & Thudium.

No. 1620, a radiator, by Jacob F. Pleis.

No. 1707, a radiator, by Weaver & Volkmar.

No. 1720, a radiator, by Williams & Hinds.

No. 1721, an air-tight wood stove, by A. Brenizer.

No. 1714, the crescent stove, invented and deposited by J. W. Kirke, is new and curious in its arrangement; it carries the principle of radiation to its utmost useful limit, and may probably be found to have its draught somewhat impaired by the attempt to obtain the whole heating effect of the fuel.

All of which are considered to be worthy of certificates of honorable mention.

The remarks made above as to the absence of any notable improvement, apply to the cooking stoves and ranges, equally with the ornamental stoves, all of which very much resemble those exhibited for the last two years.

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No. 1608, a cook stove, by Durell, and No. 1698, by J. Kisterbock, are both of well known and approved construction, and may be considered deserving of honorable mention. The like distinction is due to No. 1686, a summer stove and baker, by M. Stewart, who has also deposited a double stove on the summer baker principle, which involves the trouble of making two fires in one stove, and is, therefore, not thought to be a judicious arrangement.

The cooking ranges exhibited are four in number, deposited respectively by Lloyd & Feltwell, Julius Fink, F. McIlvaine, and Henry Hallman; the two first named have already received the silver medal of the Institute at previous exhibitions, and, consequently, can now receive no higher mark of commendation than certificates of honorable mention. The other two bear a strong resemblance to each other, and approach so nearly in construction to the former, that they may with propriety be recommended to a like distinction.

In addition to the above, the committee would recommend the award of honorable mention to De Witt C. Mott, of New York, and to C. W. Warnick, of Philadelphia, for the extensive and creditable display of stoves, furnaces, boilers, &c., which they respectively contributed to the exhibition. All which is respectfully submitted by the committee.

Report on Cabinet Ware:

The Committee of Judges on Cabinet Ware, respectfully report as follows:

It is a source of some surprise to your committee, that, in this city, where the manufacture of cabinet furniture is carried on to a remarkable extent, both in the variety, style, and excellence of workmanship, so limited a display should have been presented to the public eye on this occasion. Notwithstanding, however, the paucity in amount, many of the articles present beautiful models of taste, ingenuity, and excellence of construction; the workmanship, as usual, being of such superior accuracy as to challenge competition, and fully support the well earned reputation of this city, in this department of manufacturing industry.

The committee desire, especially, to call the attention of the Institute, to the centre table, and other articles, Nos. 1319 to 1321, made of American woods, as a branch of the arts deserving of its fostering hand. The workmanship justifies the encomiums bestowed by the public, and is worthy of the beautiful material employed, which cannot be excelled by the productions of this, or any other, continent.

These articles are recommended for the most favorable award within the ability of the Institute to bestow.

The committee would also call attention to the pointed, or Gothic, style of furniture, Nos. 1330 to 1332. Upon such articles as these is based the reputation of our city for superiority of workmanship, and the selection of tasteful forms, in which these articles can scarcely be