METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, FOR DECEMBER, 1837, AND JANUARY, 1838. The very low state of the thermometer has not been equalled during the past eighteen years; upon reference to our Journal for January 1820, we find two remarkable coincidences, viz. that during the previous days of the week, the wind had been, as now, from the N.E., changing on the morning of the 15th to the S. W., and the thermometer falling to 1o, it is singular enough that just the same date of the present year marks the same low degree of temperature, and precisely the same change of the wind. The still lower state of the thermometer on the morning of the 20th, when it was 5° below Zero, or 37° below the freezing point, has not been equalled since the 25th December, 1796, when it was one degree and a half lower, viz. six degrees and a half below Zero, which we believe to be the lowest degree ever registered in Great Britain. Edmonton. CHARLES HENRY ADAMS. Latitude 510 37 32 N. Longitude 8 51 West of Greenwich, To AUGUSTUS APPLEGATH, of Crayford, in the county of Kent, calico printer, for his invention of certain improvements in printing calico and other fabrics.— [Sealed 15th November, 1836.] PLATE XIV., fig. 1, represents in elevation the wheel side of a machine for printing six colours; fig. 2, is the opposite side of the machine; fig. 3, is an end elevation of the same; and fig. 4, a horizontal view of the upper parts. The same letters refer to similar parts in all the figures: A, A, is the cast iron frame; B, B, the moveable frames or heads to which the block tables c, c, are attached by means of hinges, which permit the block tables to be turned over when the blocks require brushing &c.; D, D, are the blocks which are cut, cast, coppered, pinned, or engraved in the usual manner; they are fixed to the block tables by means of screws VOL. XI. .. 2 V or T-headed holders, as further explained in the diagrams. Figs. 5,6,7, and 8; E, is the impression tables, which is made of cast iron or stone, and which should be flat, solid, and heavy, in order to receive the blow or impression. At each end of the impression table is a roller, which serves to guide the cloth to and from the impression table; F, F, are the rubber carriages, which support the rubbers G, G, in the notches; the under surface of the rubber carriages is made with inclined planes, so that when the carriages advance, they lift the rubbers one quarter of an inch; H, H, are the hammers or mauls which give the impressing blow to the block tables c, c. The hammers are fixed to the wrought iron shafts I, I, by means of the sockets and binding screws, which permit them to be adjusted, so as to strike the block tables simultaneously: K, the feeding drum, which advances the printing cloth and the material to be printed, and the periphery should contain or be divisible into any certain number of spaces, each equal to the set of the blocks or the quantity of cloth which each block prints at one impression in this machine; it contains fifteen spaces of three inches each, which is the set of the pattern here shown. The feeding drum is furnished with a wheel L, having ninety teeth of half-inch pitch, and it has also fifteen stop pins accurately pitched, which regulate and govern the advance or feeding in of the correctness of the cloth and the material to be printed, and upon which the joining of the pattern depends; M, is a double pinion or two pinions fixed upon the same axis; the small pinion has twenty-four teeth, and is always in the gear with the wheel L; the large pinion has forty-eight teeth, and is |