76 New Patents. 



this remarkable phenomenon, which 1 made during its continuance, 

 through the night of the 25th, as it was seen by me and by others 

 from the neighbourhood of Chelmsford in Essex. — I was passing the 

 night at Boreham, and about nine o'clock P.M. I first noticed a very 

 remarkable light in the North, the sky became intensely red in the 

 N.N.E. and N., and afterwards very light all over the northern hemi- 

 sphere. Clouds, however, soon obscured it for a time, and I returned 

 to the house. At midnight on looking out of window, towards New 

 Hall, I noticed the sky to be remarkably luminous, and on going out 

 perceived every object as clearly as on a bright moonlight night. In 

 the North the most brilliant streams of light shot up into the zenith 

 from the horizon, generally in irregular diverging radii, whose centre 

 appeared to be at nearly N.N.W. by N. ; but other streamers of white 

 light in other directions becoming alternately brilliant and faint ap- 

 peared, while in E.N.E. and N.E. the whole sky seemed of a bright 

 yellowish light : the red colour which I perceived at nine o'clock had 

 quite disappeared, and the white light continued to prevail till it was 

 lost in the day-light of the following morning. It is recorded that on 

 two former occasions, one about twenty years since, and the other 

 early in the eighteenth century, bright auroras happened on the same 

 day ; namely, 25 th of September. I should like to have authenticated 

 particulars of this fact, as it would establish a most remarkable co- 

 incidence of dates with the occurrence of this rare and beautiful phe- 

 nomenon. 



With regard to the aurora of the last 25th of September above de- 

 scribed, I may observe, that 1 never saw distant objects so clearly on 

 the brightest moonlight night as I did on that occasion at midnight j 

 but its light more resembled that of the break of day than of the 

 moon, and hence the name of Aurora has not unaptly been applied 

 to this meteor. T. Forster. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To R. Wheeler, of High Wycomb, for improvements on refrigera- 

 tors for cooling fluids. — Dated the 22nd of November 1827. — 6" months 

 allowed to enrol specification. 



To W. J. Dowding, of Poulshot, Wiltshire, for improvements in 

 machinery for rollering wool from the carding-engine. — 22nd of No- 

 vember.— 2 months. 



To J.Roberts, of Wood-street, Cheapside, and G.Upton, of Queen- 

 street, Cheapside, for improvements on Argand and other lamps. — 

 24th of November. — 6 months. 



To J. A. Fulton, of Lawrence Pountney-lane, Cannon-street, Lon- 

 don, for a process of preparing or bleaching pepper. — 26th of Novem- 

 ber. — 6 months. 



To J. Apsey, of John-street, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, for an im- 

 provement in machinery to be used as a substitute for the crank. — 

 27th of November. — 2 months. 



To J. Jenour, jun., of Brighton-street, Pancras, for his cartridge 

 or case, and method of more advantageously inclosing therein shot or 

 other missiles for loading fire-arms. — 28th of November.— 6 months. 



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