400 List of English Patents, 



June 20. To E. A. Fourdrinier, Hanley, Staffordshire, paper-maker, for a 

 " certain machine for an improved mode of cutting paper." 

 22. To J. L. Stevens and P. Waycott, both of Plymouth, for « cer- 

 tain improvements in mangles." 

 20. To W. G. Kneller, Hackney, for certain "improvements on stills, 

 or apparatus for distilling." 

 July 2 Vo J. Perkins, Fleet Street, engineer, for " improvements in ge- 

 nerating steam." 



List of Patents granted in Scotlandjrqm 22d December 1831 

 2^th February 1832. 



1831. 



Dec. 22. To Malcolm Muir of Hutchinson Town, Glasgow, iii Scotland, 

 engineer, for an invention of " certain improvements in ma- 

 chinery or apparatus for preparing boards for floors, and other 

 purposes." 

 Dec. 23. To Arthur Howe Holdsworth of Dartmouth, in the county of 

 Devon, Esquire, for an invention of " improvements in the 

 construction of rudders, and in the application of the same to 

 certain descriptions of ships or vessels." 

 To Abraham Adolphus MosER of Canterbury Row, Kensington 

 Road, in the County of Surrey, engineer, tor an invention, in 

 consequence of a communication made to him by a certain 

 foreigner residing abroad, of " improvements in certain descrip- 

 tions of fire-arms." 

 To John Christophers of New Broad Street, in the City of Lon- 

 don, merchant, for an invention of " an improvement in clothes* 

 1832. buttons." 



Jan. 26. To William Hale of Colchester, in the county of Essex, machi- 

 nest, for an invention of " a machine or method for raising or 

 forcing water, for propelling vessels." 

 Feb. 10. To Pierrepont Greaves of Chorley, in the county of Lancaster, 

 gentleman, for an invention of " a method or methods of mak- 

 ing ornamental cotton, yarns, and threads applicable to the 

 making, sewing, and embroidering of cotton and other fabrics." 

 17. To Samuel Hall of Basford, in the county of Nottingham, cotton- 

 manufacturer, for an invention of" an improved piston and valve 

 for steam, gas, and other engines ; also an improved method of 

 lubricating the pistons, piston-rods, and valves or cocks of such 

 engines, and of condensing the steam, and supplying water to 

 the boiler of such engines as are wrought by a vacuum pro- 

 duced by condensation." 

 20. To Moses Teague of Parkend Iron.works, near Colford, in the 

 county of Gloucester, iron-master, for an invention of " certain 

 improvements in making and smelting of pig-iron." 

 To William Sneath of Ison Green, in the county of Notting- 

 hiam, lace-maker, for an invention of " certain improvements in 

 machine'ry for the manufacture of bobbing-net lace." 

 2A. To Alexander Beattie Shankland of Liverpool Street, in the 

 city of London, in consequence of a communication made to 

 him by a foreigner residing in America, of an invention of " a 

 new method of cutting, working, and planing of wood, mine- 

 rals, and metals, by means of machinery." 



To Correspondents. 



T^5^"Mernoir on the Mosaic History is under consideration — The account 

 of the Russian Baths, transmitted by Dr Trail, through a private channel, 



has never reached us The Chemical Memoir from Greenock, having at 



length cast up, is now under consideration.' 



