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List of Patents granted for Scotland from 23d June to 

 23d September 1843. 



1. To William Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 Chancery 

 Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, being a communication 

 from abroad, " certain improvements in the preparation of paper designed 

 for bank notes. Government documents, bills, cheques, deeds, and other 

 purposes, wherein protection and safety from forgeries or counterfeits 

 arc required." — 23d Juno 1843. 



2. To William Needham, of Birmingham, in the county of War- 

 wick, gunsmith, ^' improvements in fire-arms." — 4th July 1843. 



3. To Robert Smart, of Commercial Road, in the parish of Saint 

 Mary Radcliff, in the city of Bristol, ship-owner, " improvements in 

 paddle Wheels."— 4th July 1843. 



4. To Luke Hebert, of Dover, in the county of Kent, civil engineer, 

 " certain improvements in mills or machines for the grinding and dress- 

 ing, or reducing and separating, grain and other substances." — 13th 

 July 1843. 



5. To James John Greer, of Woolwich, in the county of Kent, sur- 

 geon, **^ improvements in apparatus for securing orfixing standing rigging, 

 and chains, and other tackle." — 14th July 1843. 



6. To Alonzo Grandison Hull, of Clifford Street, in the county of 

 Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, 'improvements in electrical apparatus 

 for medical purposes, and in the application thereof to the same pur- 

 poses."--15th July 1843. 



7. To Joseph Daniel Davidge, of Greville Street, Hatton Garden, 

 in the parish of Saint Andrew Holborn, and county of Middlesex, ma- 

 chinist, " improvements in manufacturing certain materials as substi- 

 tutes for whalebone, applicable to various useful purposes, and in the 

 machinery for effecting the same." — I7th July 1843. 



8. To George Parsons, of West Lambrook, in the county of Somer- 

 set, gentleman, and Richard Clyburn of Uley, in the county of Glou- 

 cester, engineer, *' certain improvements in machinery for beating, cleans- 

 ing, and crushing various animal and vegetable materials or substances."— 

 18th July 1843. 



9. To Sir John Scott Lillie, of Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex, 

 Knight and Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, cer- 

 tain improvements in roads." — 19th July 1843. 



10. To Richard Laming of Radley's Hotel, New Bridge Street, 

 Blackfriars, iu the city of London, gentleman, " certiiin improvements in 

 the purification and application of ammonia to obtain certain chemical 

 products."— 19th July 1843. 



11. To James Lancaster Lucena, of No. 4 Garden Court, Middle 



