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will probably be found of very respectable amplitude, the botanist 

 of Forfar being noted for underrating alpine distances. 



But we have not room to enlarge. Let Dr Murray go on 

 with equal care and zeal, and we confidently predict, from the 

 specimen now published, that his work will prove one of the most 

 interesting of local Floras.* In an appendix we find " Notes from 

 the Ancients," by Mr Francis Adam, on some of the native plants 

 described in this part of the Flora, curious and amusing enough ; and 

 also " Observations on the Agricultural properties of several of our 

 native plants,'* by the Rev- Mr Farquharson — observations which 

 will be found interesting and important to all enterprising and im- 

 proving agriculturists and sheep-farmers. 



List of Patents granted in Scotland Jrom Kth July to \(Hh 

 September 1836. 



1. To David Fisheu of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford me- 

 chanic, for an invention of '* an improvement in steam-engines." — Sealed 7th 

 July 1836. 



2. To Hamer Stansfeld of Leeds, in the county of York, merchant, for 

 an invention, communicated by a foreigner residing abroad, of " improve- 

 ments in machinery for preparing certain threads or yams, and for weaving 

 certain fabrics.''— 8th July 1836. 



3. To Thomas Rock Shute of Watford, in the county of Hertford, silk- 

 throwster, for an invention of '* improvements in spinning and doubling or- 

 ganzine silk."_8th July 1836. 



4. To Robert Walter Swinburne of South Shields, in the county of 

 Durham, agent, for an invention of *' certain improvements in the manufac- 

 ture of plate-glass — 12th July 1836. 



6. To Edward Jelowicki of No. 8 Seymour Place, Bryanstone Square, 

 in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for an invention, communicated by a 

 foreigner residing abroad, of " certain improvements in steam-engines.*' — 15th 

 July 1836. 



6. To Benjamin Simmons of Winchester Street, in the burgh of South- 

 wark and county of Surrey, engineer, for an invention of ** certain improve- 

 ments in chemical retorts, stills, and other apparatus, and in the machinery 

 connected therewith, and by the use or employment whereof various processes 

 can be speedily, conveniently, and economically performed.'' — 18th July 1836. 



7. To John Isaac Hawkins of Chase Cottage, Pancras Vale, in the 

 Hampstead Road, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention, 

 communicated by a foreigner residing abroad, of " an improvement in the 

 art of manufacturing iron and steel."— 18th July 1836. 



8. To John Archibald of the parish of Alva, in the county of Stirling 

 and kingdom of Scotland, manufacturer, for an invention of " certain improve- 



• While this sheet is in the press we learn that the " saxifrage more exclu- 

 sively confined to the mountains, but found on the coast of Banffshire," men- 

 tioned at p. xii. of Dr INIurray's preface, has recently been ascertained to be 

 one of the varieties of the very variable Saxifragahypnoides, Linn. — a species 

 which occurs sparingly on Arthur's Seat hills at Edinburgh. We have also 

 heard that, since the publication of the first part of the Northern Flora, Elyna 

 caricina (Schoenus monoicus) has been found in Braemar, by Mr George 

 Dickie, surgeon. 



