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List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d March to 

 June 1844. 



1. To William Ritter, of 106 Fenchurch Street, in the city of Lon- 

 don, gentleman, being a communication from abroad, " improvements in 

 crystallizing and purifying sugars." — ^26tli March 1844. 



2. To Charles Harrison, manager of the Coed Talon, and Lees- 

 wood Iron- works, Flintshire, " certain improvements in the manufac- 

 ture of cast-iron pipes, and other iron castings." — ^26th March 1844. 



3. To William Isaac Cookson, of the borough and county of New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, Esquire, " improvements in apparatus for burning 

 sulphur in the manufacture of sulphuric acid." — 26th March 1844. 



4. To Elisha Haydon Collier, of Goldsworthy Terrace, Rother- 

 hithe, in the county of Surrey, civil engineer, *' certain improvements in 

 the construction of furnaces and flues." — 27th March 1844. 



5. To Joseph Dickenson Stagg, of Middleton in Teesdale, in the 

 county of Durham, manager of smelting works, '' a new or improved 

 plan for collecting, condensing, and purifying the fumes of lead, copper, 

 and other ores and metals ; also the particles of such ores and metals 

 arising or produced from the roasting, smelting, or manufacturing 

 thereof; and also the noxious smoke, gases, salts, and acids, soluble 

 and absorbable in water, generated in treating and working such ores 

 and metals,"— 30th March 1844. 



6. To William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 

 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer and patent 

 agent, being a communication from abroad, *' an improvement or im- 

 provements in furnaces/' — 4th April 1844. 



7. To John Stevelly, of Belfast, in the county of Antrim, professor 

 of natural philosophy, " improvements in steam engines." — 10th April 

 1844. 



8. To Thomas Nash, of Paul's Cray, in the county of Kent, paper- 

 maker, and Francis Pirie, of WatUng Street, in the city of London, 

 paper-maker, " certain improvements in the manufacture of paper, and 

 in the machinery to be used therein."— 11th April 1844. 



9. To William Thomas, of Cheapside, in the city of London, mer- 

 chant, being a communication from abroad, *' improvements in fasten- 

 ings for wearing apparel, and which may also be applied as fastenings to 

 portmanteaus, bags, boxes, books, and other things." — 15th April 1844. 



10. To John Lawson, of Leeds, in the county of York, engineer, and 



