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sex, gontleman, " improyements in engines to be worked by steam or 

 other suitable fluid, and improvements in propelling carriages and ves- 

 sels."— 6th August 1847. 



22. To William Thomas, of 129 Cheapside, in the city of London, 

 merchant, being a communication from abroad, " certain improvements 

 in stays, which improvements are applicable to other useful purposes." — 

 11th August 1847. 



23. To Pierre Armand le Comte de Fontainbmoreau, of No. 4 

 South Street, Finsbur)^ London, English and Foreign Patent Office for 

 Inventions, being a communication from abroad, " certain improvement! 

 in the machinery for cutting wood, and in laying and uniting veneers." 

 —11th August 1847. 



24. To James Webster, of Sneinton, in the county of Nottingham, 

 " an improved atmospheric buffer to be applied to railway carriages and 

 other vehicles travelling on railways." — 12th August 1847. 



25. To John Thompson Carter, of Drogheda, in the county of the 

 town of Drogheda, in Ireland, flax-spinner, " improvements in machinery 

 for crushing, bruising, and preparing flax, hemp, and other fibrous ma- 

 terials requiring such treatment." — 16th August 1847. 



2Q. To Frederick Steiner, of Hyndburn Cottage, near Accrington, 

 in the county of Lancaster, turkey-red dyer, being a communication from 

 abroad, " improvements in the manufacture of sugar." — 16th August 

 1847. 



27. To Thomas Birchall, of Ribbleton Hall, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, gentleman, " improvements in folding newspapers, and other pa- 

 pers."—- 16th August 1847. 



28. To James Morrison, of Paisley, in the county of Renfrew, in 

 Scotland, shawl-manufacturer, " improvements in applying power in pro- 

 pelling or moving carriages, and in giving motion to machinery." — 18th 

 August 1847. 



29. To Philip Henry Holland, of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, in the 

 borough of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, surgeon, being a com- 

 munication from abroad, " improvements in applying manure to land." — 

 20th August 1847. 



30. To John Blyth and Alfred Blyth, both of St Anns, Limehouse, 

 in the county of Middlesex, engineers, and John M'Culloch of Mose- 

 more Cottages, Old Kent Road, in the county of Surrey, chemist, " cer- 

 tain improvements in apparatus for distilling and rectifying." — 23d Au- 

 gust 1847. 



31. To Stephen White, of No. 30 Winchester Row, New Road, in 

 , the parish of Mary-le-bone, in the county of Middlesex, clerk in the em- 

 ploy of the Great Western Railway Company, *' a new means of pro- 

 ducing gas, both as to apparatus and materials from which the gas is 

 produced." — 25th August 1847. 



32. To Charles Hancock, of Brompton, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, gentleman, " improvements in the preparation of gutta percha, and 

 in the application thereof, alone and in combination witli other materials, 

 to manufacturing purposes, which improvements are also applicable to 



other substances." — 26th August 1847. 



