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uonts in the manufacture or treatment of paper or fabric to prevent 

 copies or impressions being taken of any writing or printing thereon." — 

 1st March 1852. 



33. To William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 



Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, *' improve- 

 ments in the heddles or harness of looms for weaving, and in the ma- 

 chinery for producing the same ;" being a communication.— 2d March 

 1852. 



34. To Henry Bessemer, of Baxter House, Old St Pancras Road, in 

 the county of Middlesex, " improvements in expressing saccharine fluids, 

 and in the manufacture, refining, and treating sugar." — 3d March 1852. 



35. To Frederick Grace Calvert, of Manchester, in the county of 

 Lancaster, professor of chemistry and analytical chemist, " improvements 

 in manufacturing iron, and in manufacturing and purifying coke," — 4th 

 March 1852. 



36. To John Henry Johnson, of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the 

 county of Middlesex, and of Glasgow, North Britain, gentleman, " im- 

 provements in weaving carpets and other fabrics, and in the machinery 

 or apparatus employed therein." — 4th March 1852. 



37. To William Sinclair, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, 

 engineer, *• certain improvements in locks." — 8th March 1852. 



38. To John Blair, of Irvine, in the county of Ayr, North Britain, 

 gentleman, " certain improvements in beds or couches, and other articles 

 of furniture."— 9th March 1852. 



39. To Perry G. Gardner, of the city of New York, in the United 

 States of America, civil engineer and mechanist, " improvements in the 

 manufacture of malleable metals into pipes, hollow shafts, railway wheels, 

 or other analogous forms, which are capable of being dressed, turned 

 down, or polished in a lathe." — 10th March 1852. 



40. To Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, QQ 

 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman, 

 " improvements in machinery for combing wool and other fibrous sub- 

 stances;" being a communication. — 15th March 1852. 



41. To Alexander Cunninghame, of Glasgow, in the county of 

 Lanark, North Britain, ironmaster, " improvements in the treatment 

 and application of slag, or the refuse matter of blast furnaces." — 15th 

 March 1852. 



42. To William Charles Scott, of Camberwell, in the county of 

 Surrey, gentleman, "certain improvements in the construction of omni- 

 buses, and other public and private carriages." — 15th March 1852. 



43. To William Stirling Lacon, of Great Yarmouth, in the county 

 of Norfolk, gentleman, " improvements in the means of suspending ships' 

 boats, and of lowering the same into the water." — 16th March 1852. 



44. To John Mercer, of Oakenshaw, Clayton-le-Moors, chemist ; and 

 John Greenwood, of Irwell Springs, Bacup, Turkey-red dyer, both in the 

 county of Lancaster, *' certain improvements in preparing cotton, and 

 otlier fabrics, for dyeing and printing." — 17th March 1852. 



45. To Charles Middleton Kernot, of West Cowes, in the Isle of 

 Wight, M.D, ; and William Hitist, of Manchester, in the county of 



