212 List of Patents. 



calico-printer ; and John Barnes and John Greenwood, of Church, in 

 the same county, manufacturing chemists, — ■" certain improvements in 

 the manufacture of certain chemical agents used in dyeing, and print- 

 ing cottons, woollens, and other fabrics." — 7th October 1845. 



16. To William Henry Fox Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, Chippen- 

 ham, in the county of Wilts, Esquire, — " improvements in obtaining 

 motive power, and in the application of motive power to railways." — 7th 

 October 1845. 



17. To William Sykes Ward, of Leathley Lodge, Hunslet Lane, in 

 the parish of Leeds, in the county of York, gentleman, — " improvements 

 in exhausting air from tubes or vessels for the purpose of atmospheric 

 railways, and for other purposes, and improvements in the valves and 

 tubes of atmospheric railways." — 7th October 1845. 



18. To Dalrymple Crawford, of Stratford-on-Avon, in the county of 

 Warwick, gentleman, — " an improved dibbling machine." — 7th October 

 1845. 



19. To Paul Ackerman, doctor of medicine, of No. 1- Skinner^s 

 Place, Sise liane, in the city of London, — " certain improvements in 

 harpoons and other similar instruments." — 9th October 1845. 



20. To GiACOMO Silvestri, doctor of medicine, of No. 87 Piccadilly, 

 — " certain improvements for the conservation of animal and vegetable 

 organic matters." — 9th October 1845. 



21. To Stephen Hutchison, of the London Gas Works, Vauxhall, in 

 the county of Surrey, engineer, — " certain improvements in gas-meters," 

 —9th October 1845. 



22. To Richard Archibald Brooman, of the Patent Office, 166 Fleet 

 Street, in the city of London, gentleman, being a communication from 

 abroad, — " a thread made from a substance not hitherto applied to that 

 purpose, and also the application of it to the manufacture of piece goods,, 

 ribbands, paper, and other articles." — 10th October 1845. 



23. To William Henry Stevenson, of the town and county of Not- 

 tingham, merchant, being a communication from abroad, — " certain im- 

 provements in machinery or apparatus, to be used in dyeing or staining." 

 —14th October 1845. 



24. To Henry Grissell, and James Lewis Lane, of the Regent's 

 Canal, engineers, — "certain improvements in weighing machines, and 

 also in steel-yards." — 14th October 1845. 



25. To Frederic Rosenborg of the borough of Kingston-upon-HuU, 

 gentleman, and John Malam, also of the same borough, gentleman, — "cer- 

 tain improvements in, or apparatus for, watering, manuring, and drying 

 trees, plants, seeds, and roots, and for accelerating and improving the 

 growth and produce of trees, plants, seeds, and rbots." — l6th October 

 1845. 



2^. To John Campbell, bleacher, Bowfield, in the county of Renfrew, 

 in Scotland, — " certain improvements in the apparatus or machinery for 

 drying or finishing of bleached cotton and other goods." — 24th October 

 1845. 



27. To James Hiqgins, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, ma- 

 chine-maker, and Thomas Schofield Whitworth, of Salford aforesaid, 

 mechanic, — " certain improvements in machinery for preparing, spinning,.. 



