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Edinburgh, and Charles Hope Smith, garden-architect, Edinburgh, 

 for their New Mode of Heating a Bath by means of a Portable 

 Boiler; read, and exhibited in operation, 17th February I83fi. 

 The Society's Honorary Silver Medal. 



5. To Mr R. Adie, optician, Liverpool, for his New Anemo- 

 meter, by which the most minute Changes in the Force or Velocity 

 of the Wind or Current of Air may be measured ; read 25th May 

 1836 The Society's Honorary Silver Medal. 



6. To William Galbraith, Esq. teacher of Mathematics, Edin- 

 burgh, M.S. A., for his New Pocket Box Circle for making 

 Observations at Sea or on Land ; read and exhibited 13th April 

 1836. The Society's Silver Medal, value Ten Sovereigns. 



7. To Messrs Maclure and Macdonald, lithographers, 190 Tron- 

 gate, Glasgow, for Nine Specimens of Transfer Lithographic 

 Drawing and Printing; exhibited -27th April 1836. The Society's 

 Silver Medal, value Eight Sovereigns. 



8. To Mr James Whitelaw, 18 Russell Street, Glasgow, for 

 his Additions to the Turning- Lathe, for facilitating blow Turning 

 where only a small portion of the body is meant to be turned ; read 



and exhibited 18th November 1835 and 13th January 1836 The 



Society's Silver Medal, value Five Sovereigns. 



9. To Mr James Gall junior, printer, Edinburgh, M. S. A., for 

 his Guide for Teaching the Hind to write a common Current 

 hand ; and for his Pin Notation for enabling the Blind to perform 

 Arithmetical Calculations, and to form Geometrical Figures, &c. ; 

 read and exhibited 30th March 1836 Five Sovereigns. 



10- To Mr J. Kirkwood junior, wright, Glasgow, for a Ma- 

 chine for cutting Mortises in Joiner Work, introduced by him into 

 this country from America ; read arid exhibited 27th April 1836. 

 Three Sovereigns. 



11. To Mr John St Clair, teacher of Music, 59 South Bridge 

 Street, Edinburgh (himself blind), for his Simple Plan for en- 

 abling Blind persons to write to their seeing Friends by means of 



a Writing Board ; read and exhibited 13th April 1836 Three 



Sovereigns. 



12. To Mr Duncan Macgregor, smith, Comrie, for his Model, 

 and the ingenuity displayed by him in his New Escapement; read 

 and exhibited 27th January 1836. Three Sovereigns. 



There was no competition for the following prizes : 



1st Prize, Keith Gold Medal of Twenty Sovereigns. 2d Prize, 



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