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improvements in tanning certain des- 

 criptions of skins. 20th October ; 6 

 months. 



To Joseph Budworth Sharp, Esq., 

 Hampstead, Middlesex, and William 

 Fawcett, Liverpool, County Palatine of 

 Lancaster, civil engineer, for an im- 

 proved mode of introducing air into 

 fluids for the purpose of evaporation. 

 20th October ; 6 months. 



To Alexander Craig, Ann-street, St. 

 Bernards, St. Cuthberts, Mid-Lothian, 

 for certain improvements in machinery 

 for cutting timber into veneers or other 

 useful forms. 20th October ; 6 months. 



To Andrew Ure, Burton-crescent, 

 Middlesex, M.D , for an apparatus for 

 regulating temperature in vaporization, 

 distillation, and other processes. 20th 

 October ; 6 months. 



To Andrew Ure, Burton-crescent, 

 Middlesex, M.D., for improvements in 

 curing or cleansing raw or coarse sugar. 

 20th October; 6 months. 



List of Patents, which having been granted 

 in the month of November 1M16, expire 

 in the present month of November 1830. 



1. Benjamin Smythe, Liverpool, for 

 a new method of propelling boats, machi- 

 nery, &c. 



Joseph Gregson, London, for a new 

 method of constructing chimneys, and of 

 tupplying with fuel. 



1. William Varley, Leeds, and Ro- 

 bert Hopwood, Furness, Bridlington, 

 for a method of producing saccharine matter 

 from corn. 



George Washington Dickinson, 

 London , for preventing leakage from, also 

 the admission of moisture into vessels. 



Simon Hosking, St. Phillack, Corn- 

 wall, for an improved steam engine. 



William Day, London,/or improved 

 trunks. 



William Piercy, Birmingham, for 

 an improved way of making thimbles. 



- John Heathcoat, Loughborough, 

 for an improved lace machine. 



William Snowden, Doncaster, for 

 an apparatus for preventing carriages from 

 being overturned. 



16. Robert Stirling, Edinburgh, for 

 an improved steam engine. 



John Day, Brompton, for an im- 

 proved piano-forte. 



Robert Rains Baines, Kingston- 

 upon-Hull, for a perpetual log, or sea 

 perambulator - 



19. Robert Ford, Hornsey, for hi$ 

 balsam of horehound. 



William Russell, Chelsea, for his 

 improved cocks and vents. 



John Barker, Camberwell, for a 

 method of acting upon machinery. 



21 Walter Hall, London, for a method 

 of making lead. 



James Hawley, London, for ttn- 

 proved thermometers. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



OUR fickle climate, yet with all its faults, one of the safest and best to live in, has, 

 during the current month, rendered us good amends for its former waywardness. Indeed, 

 had a body of fanners been constituted atmospheric regulators, they could not possibly 

 have chosen weather more suitable to the operations of latter harvest, including every 

 species of produce, and to the most important process of wheat sowing, than such as we 

 have been blessed with during the greater part of the three weeks past. The change 

 occurred on the 4th instant, a dry and generally cool temperature succeeding with north- 

 west or north-east winds, yet alternating with a considerable degree of solar heat. This 

 state of the atmosphere, the wind about the 19th veering to the south and west, and pro- 

 ducing delightful weather, has had the most beneficial effects upon all the corn, pulse and 

 seeds abroad, drying and hardening them ; and also upon the heavy lands, rendering 

 them accessible and friable, and adapted to the operations of the season. Great appre- 

 hensions are entertained of the prevalence of the slug, after such continual rains. Early 

 in the month wheat-sowing became general, where harvest was finished, and has proceeded 

 throughout apparently with a determination to make the most of a season so favourable. 

 According to general report, a great breadth of wheat, that most precious crop, will be 

 sown this year, too much, if not the greater part, upon land in a very foul, unfit and 

 disadvantageous state for its reception. For this, it is averred, the badness of the times 

 will allow of no remedy. Should the present favourable weather continue, scarcely any 

 article will remain abroad beyond the present month, which will conclude one of the most 

 expensive, procrastinated and harassing harvests ever known in this country, and most 

 particularly to clay-land farmers. It is said, however, that to the cultivators of the best 

 light lands, the present will prove a successful year. 



We observed in a former report that the growers were probably too sanguine in their 

 anticipations of the vast produce of this year's crops, particularly of the wheats ; and that 

 it had long been our usual custom to defer our opinions until sufficient intelligence could 

 be obtained from the barn floor. The present year will not serve to break our adherence 

 to this rule. The opinion now seems to be universal, that wheat when threshed does not 

 yield in that exuberant manner which their heated and eager imaginations had led calcu- 

 lators to expect. The new version is, that there is above a field average in bulk, but that 

 the yield on the threshing-floor is not proportional. This being interpreted, we apprehend 



