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3; On Mr Robertson's Signals for Raihvayf?. Mr Slight, Convener. 

 (849.) 



4. On Mr Carrick's Self-acting Feeder for Boilers. Mr R. Hunter, 

 Convenor. (859.) 



5. On Mr Burn's Self-acting Damper. Mr Steele, Convener. (886.) 



6. On Mr Wight's new Water-Wheel. Mr Glover, Convener. (878.) 



7. On Mr Hope's Stone and Wooden Pavement. Mr R. Hunter, Con- 

 vener. (362.) 



The following Reports of Committees not being ready, were 

 ordered to be lodged with the Secretary in the course of a 

 month, and to be laid by him before the Prize Committee, 

 viz. : — 



1. On Mr Thomson's Tilting Apparatus. Mr D. Stevenson, Convener. 

 (840.) 



2. On Mr Davidson's improvements on the Solar and Oxyhydrogen Mi- 

 croscope, &c. Mr D. Stevenson, Convener. (857.) 



3. On Mr Liddel's Joiner's Flooring Cramp. Mr Black, Convener. 



(901.) 



4. On Mr Wilson's Imitation of Venetian Pavement. Mr R. Brown, 

 Convener. (893.) 



5. On Mr Carrick's Paddle- Wheel. Mr Glover, Convener. (858.) 



List of Prizes of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts for 

 Session 1843-44. 



The Royal Scottish Society of Arts proposes to award 

 Honorary Medals, and Pecuniary Prizes, for approved Com- 

 munications. 



No Prize to exceed Thirty Sovereigns. 

 The attention of the Fellows and of the Public is directed to 

 Inventions, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Mechanical and 

 Chemical Arts in general, and also to means by which the Natural 

 Productions of the Country may be made more available ; and in 

 particular to, — 



1. Inventions, Discoveries, and New Processes in the Useful 

 Arts. 



2. Inventions, Processes, or Practices from Foreign Countries, 

 not generally known or adopted in Great Britian. 



3. Notices of Processes in the Useful Arts actually practised in 

 this Country, but not generally known. 



4. Experiments applicable to the Useful Arts. 



