414 , List of Patents, 



Smith-work, Turning, Stone-cutting, Mills, and Wiitcr-works. By Jrtmes 

 Kobertson, Esq., civil and mining engineer, Edinburgh, late in the service 

 of the Shah of Persia. Drawings were exhibited. Thanks voted. Ab- 

 stract to be printed in the Transactions. (842.) 



4. Some beautiful Specimens of Electrotype Medals, &c., by Mr Mure 

 of Glasgow, were exhibited by Mr Bryson. Thanks voted. (880.) 



The following Donations were laid on the table : — 



1. New Tables of the Elements of Catadioptric Zones for Lights of the 

 first order. Calculated by Alan Stevenson, LL.B., F.R S.E., civil engineer, 

 Edinburgh. Presented by the Author. (863.) 



2. Description of a Cofferdam adapted to a hard bottom ; used in excavat- 

 ing rock from the navigable channel of the River Kibble. By David Ste- 

 venson, Esq., F.R.S.S.A., civil engineer, Edinburgh. Presented by the Au- 

 thor. (864.) 



3. Registration of Designs in order to secure Copyrights. By Mr Wil- 

 liam Carpmnel, Lincoln's Inn. (London, 1842.) Pre^sj^^^^-^^bjc^liomas 

 Weir, Esq., W.S. (869.) 



Thanks were voted to the donors. 



PRIVATE BUSINESS. 



The following Candidates were balloted for,^ 

 Fellows, viz. : — 



1. Mr John Dickman, watchmaker, 142 George Street. 



2. Mr Joseph Martin Kronheim, ornamental designer, 9 Buccleuch 

 Place. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 2dth June to 2^th Sep- 

 tember 1842. 



L To John Americus Fanshawe of Hatfield Street, in the parish of 

 Christ-Church, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, " an improved manufac- 

 ture of waterproof material applicable to the purposes of covering and pro- 

 tecting surfaces, bodies, buildings, and goods, exposed to water and damp." — 

 29th June 1842. 



2. To James Boydell junior, of the Oak Farm Works, near Dudley, in 

 the county of Stafford, iron-master, " improvements in the manufacture of 

 keel-plates for vessels, iron-gates, gate-posts, fencings, and gratings." — 30th 

 June 1842. 



3. To Michael Coupland of Pond Yard, Park Street, Southwark, mill- 

 wright and engineer, " improvements in furnaces." — 30th June 1842. 



4. To Thomas Banks of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, engineer, 

 *' certain improvements in the construction of wheels and tyres of wheels to 

 bQ employed upon railways." — 5th July 1842. 



5. To John Tresahar Jeffree of Blackwall, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, engineer, '* certain improvements in lifting and forcing water and other 

 fluids, parts of which improvements are applicable to steam-engines." — Cth 

 July 1842. 



6. To James Nasmyth of Patricroft, near 31anchester, in the county of 



