392 List of Scottish Patents, 



coin, miller, for the invention of " a machine or apparatus for 

 cleansing or purifying wheat, grain, or other substances." 

 To Richard Edwards of Dewsbury, in the county of York, leather 

 and flock seller, for the invention of " an improvement on, or a 

 substitute for glass, sand, emery, and other scouring paper or 

 substances." 



18. To Joel Benedict Nott, of Schenectady, in the State of New 

 York, now of Barry Street, St James's, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, for the invention, communicated to him by a foreigner re- 

 siding abroad, of " certain improvements in the construction of a 

 furnace or furnaces for generating heat, and in the apparatus for 

 the application of heat to various useful purposes." 



21. To Bartholomew Bedferk of Birmingham, in the county of "War- 

 wick, gun-maker, for the invention of" a lock, break- off, and trig- 

 ger, upon a new and improved principle, for fowling-pieces, mus- 

 kets, rifles, pistils, and small fire-arms of all descriptions." 



23. To John Wallace, brassfounder in Leith, for the invention of 

 " an improvement or improvements upon the safety-hearths for 

 the use of vessels. 

 Mar. 2. To John Macdowall of Johnston, near Paisley, for the invention 

 ^.Mn I Qf a certain improvements on the pistons, valves, and boilers of 

 steam-engines." 

 To William Morgan of York Terrace, Regent's Park, in the 

 county of Middlesex, Esq., for the invention of " certain improve- 

 ments m steam-engines." 

 8. To Jeremiah Grime junior, of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, 

 copper-plate engraver, for the invention of " a certain method of 

 dissolving snow and ice on the trams or railways, in order that 

 locomotive steam engines and carriages, and other carriages, may 

 pass over railroads, without any obstruction or impediment from 

 such snow or ice." 



The Editor hopes to get ail the Memoirs and Registers of the Weather, 

 still unpublished, inserted in next number of Joums^ 



