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actount of a nondescript fish, five feet long, taken on the 

 coast of Devonshire last summer. It must constitute a new 

 genus, in the Apodal order ; and Mr. Montagu has bestowed 

 on it the generic name of Ziphothcca, and the specific one 

 tetradens. The communication likewise contained accurate 

 descriptions of four rare species of English fishes ; and was 

 accompanied with correct and elegant drawings of these, as 

 well as of the ziphotheca. — At the same time, Mr. Mon- 

 tagu presented the Society with copies of his Testacea Bri- 

 tannica, and Supplement, three vols. 4to., with coloured 

 plates, and of his Ornithological Dictionary, two vols. 8vo. 



XLIV. List of Patents for New Inventions. 



1. o John Dickinson, of Ludgate IJill, London, stationer, 

 for certain improvements on his patent machinery for (Jutting 

 and placing paper; and also certain machinery for the ma- 

 nufacture of paper by a .new method. Jan. 19, 1809- 



To George Finch, jun., of King Street, Soho, orris wea- 

 ver, for certain methods of manufacturing various kinds of 

 metal laces, so as to imitate gold and silver laces ; and also 

 of manufacturing goldand silver open laces. Feb. 4. 



To Thomas Potts, of Hackney, for a new process of free- 

 ing tarred ropes from the tar, and rendering them fit for the 

 use of the manufacturer. Feb. 4. 



To Frederick Albert Winsor, of Pall Mall, esq., for cer- 

 tain improvements upon his former patent oven stove, or 

 apparatus for carbonising all sorts of raw fuel and combus- 

 tibles, and reducing them into superior fuel of coke and 

 charcgal, as well as for extracting and saving, during the 

 same process, the oil, tar, pyroligneous vegetable acid and 

 ammoniacal coal liquors ; and for extracting and refining all 

 the inflammable air or gas, so as to deprive it of all disagree- 

 able odour during combustion, and rendering the gas itself 

 salutary for human respiration, when properly diluted with 

 atmospheric air. Feb. 7. 



To William Congrcve, of Cecil Street, Strand, esq., for 

 his mode of construction or arrangement for any building, 



so 



