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operative chemist, " improvements in smelting copper ores." — 23d De- 

 cember 1846. 



3. To George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the 

 county of Surrey, gentleman, and John Jackson, of Southville, Wands- 

 worth Road, in the same county, gentleman, " improvements in the pro- 

 cess of, and apparatus for treating fatty and oily matters, and manufac- 

 turing candles and night lights." 2^i\\ December 1846. 



4. To John Mill M'Pherson, manager, Greenhead, of Glasgow, in 

 the county of Lanark, Scotland, " certain improvements in weaving." — 

 28th December 1846. 



C). To William Little, of No. 198 Strand, publisher of the Illustrated 

 London News, '* improvements in machinery for printing." — 30th De- 

 cember 1846. 



6. To Henry Mapple, of Child's Hill, Hendon, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, machinist, " improvements in apparatus for transmitting electri- 

 city between distant places, and in electric telegraphs." — 30th December 

 1846. 



7. To Charles Payne, of Whitehall Wharf, Cannon Row, West- 

 minster, gentleman, " improvements in preserving vegetable matters." — 

 30th December 1846. 



8. To David Davies, of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, in the 

 county of Middlesex, coach -maker, being a communication from abroad, 

 *' certain improvements in steps for carriages and other purposes." — 

 30th December 1846. 



9. To Adrien Chenot, of Clichy, La Garene, near Paris, in the king- 

 dom of France, formerly a student in the Royal School of Mines in 

 France, *' certain improvements in the treatment of metallic oxides and 

 their compounds, and in apparatus for the same." — 31 st December 1846. 



10. To Stephen R. Parkhurst, of Leeds, in the county of York, ma- 

 nufacturer, " improvements in carding wool, cotton, and other fibrous 

 materials." — 31st December 1846. 



11. To Thomas Morton Jones, of Birmingham, gentleman, " improve- 

 ments in heating liquids and aeriform bodies." — 31st December 1846. 



12. To Alexander Bain, of 11 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, elec- 

 trical engineer, " certain improvements in transmitting and receiving 

 electrical telegraph communications, and in apparatus connected there- 

 with." — oth January 1847. 



13. To John Watson, of Glasgow, manager to Messrs Gilmour and 



