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manner than has ever before been attempted in this country, he 

 has secured, in addition to his own skill as a draftsman, the aid 

 of several of the first animal painters in Great Britain ; and he 

 has also been fortunate in gaining the co-operation of many dis- 

 tinguished amateurs of science, whose collections of drawings es- 

 pecially, have been long known, and duly prized. 



The first number of this elegant work, contains, \st, a repre- 

 sentation drawn from life, of the Puma, or American Lion {Fe- 

 lls concolor), now in the menagerie of the Museum ; 2d, two 

 views of that beautiful little hawk, the Finch Falcon of Bengal 

 (Falco ccerulescens), the smallest of all the accipi trine birds of 

 prey, from the specimen in the Museum ; 3c?, the only adequate 

 likeness which has yet been given of that rare and recently dis- 

 covered and very beautiful Gull, the Larus Sabini, likewise from 

 tlie Museum ; and, ^th, the upper and under sides of that most 

 magnificent production of the insect world, the Great Owl Moth 

 of Brazil {Noctua erehus strioo), from Mr Wilson"'s own collection. 

 The letter-press presents the generic characters and specific de- 

 scription of these creatures, and is rendered more valuable, by 

 many general observations, written with much elegance, on the 

 manners and modes of life, which distinguish the orders and 

 tribes to which they respectively belong. 



List of Patents granted in England from February 8. to 

 May 19. 1827. 



1827, 



Feb. 8. To Sir William Congreve, of Cecil Street, Strand, for a new- 

 Motive Power. 



12. To William Stratton, of Limehouse, engineer, for an improved 

 apparatus for heating air by means of steam. 



14. To George Prist, of the Old City Chambers, Bishopsgate, for cer- 

 tain improvements, communicated from abroad, in Copper and 

 other Plate Printing. 



20. To Philip Jacob Heisch, of America Square, for Improved Ma- 

 chinery for Spinning Cotton, communicated from abroad. 

 To William Benecke, of Deptford, in behalf of M. W. Pesca- 

 tore of liUxemburgh, for a Machine for Crushing Seeds, and 

 other oleaginous substances, for the purpose of extracting oil 

 therefrom. 

 To Charles Barwell Coles, late of Duke Street, Manchester 

 Square, Esq. and William Nicolson, of Manchester, civil engi- 



