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14. To John Melling of Liverpool, in tlic county of Lancaster, for an 

 invention of " certain Improvements in Locomotive Steam-Carriages to be 

 used on railways or other roads, part or parts of which improvements are 

 also applicable to Stationary Steam-Engines, and to Machinery in general." 

 —18th Oct. 1838. 



15. To Horace Cohy of Marrow Street, Limehouse, in the county of 

 Middlesex, bachelor of medicine, for an invention of " Improvements in the 

 manufacture of White Lead."— 18th Oct. 1838. 



16. To Heney Huntley Mohun of Regent's Park, in the county of 

 Middlesex, M. D., for an invention of " Improvements in the composition 

 and manufacture of Fuel, and in furnaces for the consumption of such, and 

 other kinds of Fuel."— 18th Oct. 1838. 



17. To Edwin Bottomley of Aldermanbury, in the county of York, 

 clothier, for an invention of " a certain improvement or improvements ap- 

 plicable to power and hand looms." — 29th Oct. 1838. 



18. To Laitrence Hey worth of Yew Tree, near Liverpool, in the 

 county of Lancaster, merchant, for an invention of "a new method of ap- 

 plying steam power directly to the periphery of the movement vheed, for 

 purposes of locomotion, both oji land and water, .and for propelling ma- 

 chinery."— 29th Oct. 1838. 



19. To Thomas Evans of the Dowlar's ironworks, in the county of Gla- 

 morgan, agent, for an invention of " an improved rail for railway purposes, 

 together with the mode of manufacturing and fastening down the same." — 

 3ist Oct. 1838. 



20. To Pierre Arma-nd Lecomte tje "FtMrrAiWEOTonEHAti of Oharles 

 Street, City Road, in the county of Middlesex, for an invention of " certain 

 improvements in wool combing," being a communication from a foreigner 

 residing abroad. — 2d November 1838. 



21. To Ja3ies Milne of Edinburgh, North Britain, brassfounder, for an 

 invention of " an improvement or improvements in apparatus, employed in 

 traaismitting gas for the purpose of light and heat," — 6th Nov. 1838. 



22. To John Henfrey of Weymouth Terrace, in the parish of Shore- 

 ditch and county of Middlesex, engineer and machinist, for an invention of 

 " certain improvements in the manufacture of hinges or joints, and in the 

 machinery employed therein." — 6th Nov. 1838. 



23. To Charles Flude of Liverpool, chemist, for an invention of "im- 

 provements in applying heat for smelting, or otherwise working ores, me- 

 tals, and earths, and for heating steam-boilers, and for general manufacturing 

 or other useful purposes where heat is required, and also for an improved 

 inode of supplying hot water to steam-boilers, the said improvements having 

 the economy of fuel for their object." — 6th Nov. 1838. 



24. Okristopher Nickels of York Road, Lambeth, in the county of 

 Surrey, manufacturer, for an invention of " improvements in machinery for 

 covering fibres, applicable in the manufacture of braid and other fabrics." 

 7th Nov. 1838. 



25. To Thomas French Berney of Mortonhall, in the ooxmty of Nor- 

 folk, Esq. for an invention of " certain improvements in cartridges.^'— 8th 

 Nov. 1838. 



27. To Michael Wheelwright Ivison, eilk-spinner, residing in No. 19 

 Giliiiore Place, Edinburgh, for an invention of " an improved method for 

 preparing and spinning silk-waste, wool, flax, and other fibrous substances, 

 and for discharging the gum from silks, raw and manufactured." — 9th Nov. 

 1838. 



28. To Moses Poole of Lincoln's Inn, gentleman, in consequence of a 

 comnmnication from abroad, for an invention of " improvements in appara- 

 tus or machineiy for obtaining rotatoiy motion." — 14th Nov. 1838. 



29. To Thomas Mellodeav of Wallshaw Cottage, in the township of Old- 

 ham, in the county of Lancaster, mechanic, for an invention of " certain 

 improvements in looms for weaving various kinds of cloth." — 14th Nov. 1838. 



30. To Christopher Binks of Newington, in the coimty of Edinburgh, 

 manufacturing chemist, for an invention of " certain improvements in the 



