seats for carriages.-Sealed 13th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Charles Barnard, of the city of Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, ironmonger, for his invention of an improved mangle.-Sealed 13th January-6 months for inrolment.

To George Chapman, of Whitley, in the county of York, engineer, for his invention of certain improve ments in steam-engines. Sealed 13th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Henry Hewitt, of Stockwell-common, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, for his invention of a new or improved chemical compound or medicine to be used in the form of pills, for the cure or amelioration of sciatica, rheumatism, and gout,lumbago, ague, and other diseases of a similar nature.-Sealed 18th January-6 months for inrolment.

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To Julian Augustus Tarner, of Henry-street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, architect, for his in-. vention of an improved method of propelling vessels through water.-Sealed 18th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Luke Barton, of Arnold, in the county of Nottingham, frame-smith, for his invention of certain improvements in machinery for framework-knitting.— Sealed 20th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Frederick Oldfield Ward, of Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, medical student, for his invention of an improvement or improvements in clothes and other brushes. Sealed 20th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Ambroise Ador, of Leicester-square, in the county

of Middlesex, chemist, for his invention of certain improvements in producing or obtaining motive power.Sealed 20th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Herbert George James, of Lower Thames-street, in the city of London, wine merchant, for an improvement in making bread, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad. - Sealed 23d January6 months for inrolment.

To Thomas Hancock, of Goswell-mews, in the county of Middlesex, patent waterproof cloth manufacturer, for his invention of improvements in the method of manufacturing or preparing caoutchouc, either alone or in combination with other substances.-Sealed 23d January-6 months for inrolment.

To Robert Garton, of Beverley, in the county of York, millwright, for his invention of improvements in presses. -Sealed 25th January-6 months for inrolment.

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To Francis Charles Parry, of Brompton, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., and Charles de Laveleye, of King's Head-court, in the city of London, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 25th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Charles Hancock, of Grosvenor-place, Hyde-park, in the county of Middlesex, animal painter, for his invention of certain improved means of producing figured surfaces, sunk and in relief, and of printing therefrom; and also of moulding, stamping, and embossing,— Sealed 25th January-6 months for inrolment.

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 1°, 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,

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No. LXXII.

Recent Patents.

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

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