404 List of Scotch Patents. 



1829. 



Dec. 12. To William Strachan of Avon Eitha, in the parish of Ruabon, 

 in the county of Denbigh, manufacturer, for an invention of *' an 

 improvement in the making of alum." 

 24. To Robert Stein of Regent Street, Oxford Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, gentleman, for an invention of " certain improve- 

 ments in distillation." 

 24. To Anton Bernhard of Finsbury Square, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, engineer, for an invention of " a method, or principle, or 

 an apparatus, for raising water or other fluids.*' 



Jan. 19. To John Hawks of Weymouth Street, Portland Place, in the 

 county of Middlesex, iron manufacturer, for an invention of " an 

 improvement in the construction of ships' cable and hawser chains." 



Jan. 26. To Valentine Llanos of Hampstead, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, gentleman, for an invention communicated to him by a person 

 residing abroad, of " an improvement or improvements on bits." 



Feb. 26. To Samuel Clegg of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, en- 

 gineer, for an invention of " certain improvements in the construc- 

 tion of steam-engines and steam generators or boilers." 



March 6. To Charles Harsleben of New Ormond Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, Esq. for an invention *' of certain improvements in 

 machinery to be used in navigation, chiefly applicable to the pro- 

 pelling of ships and other floating bodies, and which improvements 

 are also applicable to other purposes." 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Plate L Geometrical Projection for Edinburgh of the Solar Eclipse 

 for 1833. 

 II. Mr Kemp's Galvanic Apparatus. 



III. Mr Davidson's Syphon Lamp. 



IV. Sections illustrative of Dr Turnbull Christie's Geology of 



the Southern Mahratta country. 

 V. Mr Watt's Magnetometer, and Mr Kemp's Blowpipe and 

 Magnetical Apparatus. 



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 and 20th November. 



