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chine for lifting Stereotype Moulds from the Types," and for 

 his "new method of Baking- the Moulds;" — read and ex- 

 hibited 13th February 1839 ; — a Model to be furnished for the 

 Museum — The Society's Silver Medal, value Ten Sovereigns. 



(610.) 



8. To Mr James Marshall, eng-ineer, North Leith ; for his Mo- 



del, Drawing-, and Description of an " Improvement in the 

 common Smith's Vice;" read and exhibited 24th April 1839. 

 — The Society's Silver Medal, value Eight Sovereigns. (637.) 



9. To Mr John Gilchrist, Middle Arthur Place, Edinburgh ; 



for his Model and Description of " Substitute for Door 

 Springs," applied by him with much success to produce the 

 action of self-closing on Doors of Public Offices, Lobbies, &c., 

 and which may open either way ; — read and exhibited 27th 

 March, 1839 — The Societi/s Silver MedaU value Five Sove- 

 reigns. (631.) 



10. To Mr John Whyte, pattern-drawer, Edinburgh; for his 

 " Essay on the State of Art, as applied to British Manufac- 

 tures;" — read 17th and 24th April and 15th May, 1839 ; and 

 his great labour and trouble in bringing this important sub- 

 ject before the Society. — Seven Sovereigns. (601.) 



11. To Mr D. T. Hope, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh; for his 

 trouble and drawings of a method of Increasing and Dimi- 

 nishing the distance of the Floats from the centre of the 



Common Paddle-Wheel ;— exhibited 29th May, 1839 Three 



Sovereigns, (583.) 



12. To Mr John St Clair, teacher of music, Edinburgh; for a 

 model to be furnished for the Society's Museum of his " Arti- 

 ficial Method of Augmenting the Tone of the Violin ;" — ex- 

 hibited 12th December, 1838, and in an improved form on 

 27th November, 1839 Three Sovereigns. (588.) 



13. To Mr William Bulloch, bookbinder, Edinburgh, for a 

 model, to be furnished for the Society's Museum, of his 

 " Moveable Stamp and Sliding Frame," — suggested by him 

 as a means of diminishing the expense of Embossing the 

 Boards of Books, particularly in Cloth Binding ; — exhibited 

 10th April 1839.-— TVjo Sovereigns, (629.) 



Further, while thanks were due to all who have sent communi- 



