List of Patents for New Inventions, — Meteorology, 375 



veying. coals and other minerals in the working of mines, or 

 below ground, and of returning the empty vessels and car- 

 riages. April 27. 



To William Bell, of Birmingham, in the county of War- 

 wick, engineer; for his improvements in making pipes, or 

 pumps, for conducting water and other liquids. April 30. 



To Edward Coleman, Professor at the Veterinary College, 

 in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex ; 

 for certain improvements in the construction and application 

 of a horse-shoe, which will completely prevent several dis- 

 eases to which the feet of horses are subject, more espe- 

 cially that very general disease called contraction of the 

 hoof; and is also particularly adapted for flat convex feet,' 

 for horses of cavalry, and for hunting ; and for all other 

 purposes where the loss of a shoe is productive of great in- 

 convenience. April 30. ^ 



METEOROLOGY. 



Meteorological observations in a tabular form compress so 

 much information in a small compass, and facilitate com- 

 parisons in such a manner as to render them highly useful. 

 In both of these views the following tables cannot but prove 

 acceptable to many of our readers. The estimate of rain 

 has been given to the public for several years : Dr. Clarke's 

 meteorological table did not commence till last June, but 

 we understand that gentleman means steadily to pursue the 

 game plan. 



To facilitate pursuits of this kind, it is of importance that 

 such a rain gauge should be provided as may collect all the 

 snow as well as rain that may fall, and so arranged that the 

 danger of bursting in a time of frost may be averted. A 

 correspondent suggests that this object may be gained by ad- 

 mitting the common gauge into a hot-house kept at the tem- 

 perature of 60"" of Fahrenheit's thermometer, placing the 

 large end of the cone at the top, in one of the squares now 

 . occupied by a pane of glass. Should any better method for 

 pbtaining such a desideratum present itself to any of our 

 readers, we shall be happy in being enabled to communicate 

 \i to the public. 



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