210 List of Patents. 



11. James Black, of Edinburgh, machine maker, "a machine for 

 folding ;" being a communication. — 3d April 1851. 6 months. 



12. Henry Duncan Preston Cunningham, of Bury, in the county of 

 Hants, paymaster and purser in the royal navy, '* improvements in reef- 

 ing sails." — 4th April 1851. 6 months. 



13. James Hamilton "6rowne, of the Reform Club, Pall Mall, in the 

 county of Middlesex, Esq., " improvements in the separation and disin- 

 fection of fecal matters, in the purification of gas, in the preservation of 

 animal matters, and in the apparatus employed therein." — 9th April 

 1851. 6 months. 



14. Thomas Greaves Barlow, of 32 Bucklersbury, in the city of 

 London, civil and consulting gas engineer, and Samuel Gore, of Park 

 Road, Old Kent Road, in the county of Surrey, engineer, " improvements 

 in the treatment of certain substances used in the production of gas for 

 giving light and heat, and of some of the products of the said substances, 

 as also in the apparatus employed in the manufacture of such gas, and 

 in discharging and giving motion to gas." — 9th April 1851. 6 months. 



15. To William Galloway and John Galloway, of Manchester, in 

 the county of Lancaster, engineers, " improvements in steam-engines and 

 boilers." — 14th|A.pril 1851. 6 months. 



16. To Samuel Holt, of Stockport, in the county' of Chester, man- 

 ager, " certain improvements in the manufacture of textile fabrics."—- 

 14th April 1851. 6 months. 



17. To David Christie, of No. 3 Saint John's Place, Broughton, in 

 the burgh of Salford and county of Lancaster, merchant, " improvements 

 in machinery or apparatus for preparing, carding, spinning, doubling, 

 twisting, weaving, and knitting cotton, wool, and other fibrous sub- 

 stances ; also for sewing and packing ;" being a communication. — 14th 

 April 1851. 4 months. 



18. To John James Greenough, now residing in Washington in the 

 United States of America, " improvements in obtaining and applying 

 motive power ;" being a communication. — 14th April 1851. 6 months. 



19. To Benjamin Guy Babington, of George Street, Hanover Square, 

 in the county of Middlesex, doctor of medicine, " improvements in pre- 

 venting incrustation of steam and other boilers." — 16th April 1851. 

 6 months. 



20. To Thomas Hill, residing at Langside Cottage, near Glasgow, 

 in the county of Renfrew, Scotland, Esquire, " certain improvements in 

 wrought iron or malleable iron railway chairs, and in the machinery or 

 apparatus employed for producing the same ;" being a communication. — 

 17th April 1851. 6 months. 



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

 the county of Middlesex, engineer, " improvements in the manufacture 

 and refining of sugar, and in machinery or apparatus used in producing 

 a vacuum in such manufactures, and which last improvements are also 

 otherwise applicable for exhausting and forcing fluids." — 17th April 

 1851. 6 months. 



