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used for obtaining mechanical power, and for raising and impelling 

 fluids."— 6th April 1846. 



8. To Henry Smith, of Liverpool, engineer, ** improvements in the 

 manufacture of wheels for railways, and in springs for railway and 

 other carriages, and in aide guards for railway carriages." — 6th April 

 1846. 



9. To William Unsworth of Derby, silk manufacturer, *' certain im- 

 provements in looms for weaving." — 7th April 1846. 



10. To Pierre Armand Lecomte de Fontainemoreau, of Skinner's 

 Place, Size Lane, in the city of London, being a communication from 

 abroad, *' certain improvements in apparatus for raising and supporting 

 vessels and other floating or sunken bodies, and its application for the 

 better prevention of life and property." — 8th April 1846. 



11. To Henry Mandeville Meade» of the city of New York, in the 

 United States of America, gentleman, being a communication from abroad, 

 " improvements in distilling from Indian com and other grain." — 9th 

 April 1846. 



12. To Henry Mandeville Meade, of the city of New York, in the 

 United States of America, gentleman, being a communication from abroad, 

 " improvements in the manufacture of bread." — 9th April 1846. 



13. To Benjamin Fothergill, of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, machine-maker, " improvements in certain parts of machinery 

 used in the preparation for spinning, and in the spinning and doubling of 

 cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances." — 9th April 1846. 



14. John Robert Johnson, of Alfred Place, Blackfriars, in the 

 county of Surrey, chemist, " improvements in purifying gas, and in the 

 treatment of products of gas-works." — 9th April 1846. 



15. Reuben Goodale Fairbanks, of Cecil Street, in the county of 

 Middlesex, civil-engineer, being a communication from abroad, " certain 

 improvements in machinery or apparatus for making moulding or manu- 

 facturing bricks, tiles, and other articles from earthy or plastic materials." 

 —13th April 1846. 



16. Alexander Alliott, of Lenton, in the county of Nottingham, 

 " certain improvements in the rotatory machines employed for drying 

 and other purposes requiring the application of centrifugal force." — 14th 

 April 1846. 



17. John Ainslie, of Alperton, in the county of Middlesex, brick and 

 tile manufacturer, *' certain improvements in the arrangements for the 

 manufacture of bricks, tiles, and other similar articles from clay and 

 other plastic substances, and in machinery or apparatus for the manufac- 

 ture of bricks."— 14th April 1846. 



18. James Laming, of Mark Lane, in the city of London, merchant, 

 being a communication from abroad, " improvements in making the 

 cyanides, and ferrocyanides, of potassium and sodium." — 15th April 

 1846. 



19. James Allingham, of Dublin, in the kingdom of Ireland, gentle- 

 man, and James M'Gauley, of the city of Dublin aforesaid, clerk, " cer- 

 tain improvements in steam-engines." — 16th April 1846. 



20. John Lake, of Apsley, in the county of Hertford, civil engineer, 

 " certain improvements in propelling." — 16th April 1846. 



21. Samuel Heseltine junior, of Bromley, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, civil-engineer, being a communication from abroad, " improvementa 



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