List of English Patents for 1826. 211 



Each group, even each bird, by its attitudes and expression of 

 countenance, tells in these drawings the story of its own in- 

 stincts. Did our space allow of it, we could dwell long, and 

 with enthusiastic admiration, on these fine displays of skill and 

 taste, and, after all, would but embody in a feeble manner the 

 feelings of thousands who have seen Mr Audubon''s pictures in 

 the room of the Royal Institution in Liverpool, and in the Hall 

 of the Royal Institution in this city. We are delighted to 

 learn that these drawings are to be published, and on a scale of 

 magnitude never before attempted in similar works in this cotin- 

 try. Already several of the plates, admirably engraved, and 

 beautifully and chastely coloured, have been publicly exhibited. 

 The work, we understand, will appear in occasional numbers; 

 the paper elephant folio, with 5 plates in each. The engravings 

 will be accompanied with a quarto volume of letter press, con- 

 taining all Mr Audubon^s observations on the Natural History 

 of the species, in the form of letters,^-of which a very interesting 

 specimen is given, in the history of the Turkey Buzzard in the 

 present number of this Journal. 



3. The Aberdeen^ Leitli and London Tide-Tables for the year 

 1827 ; hy George Innes, Astronomical Calculator^ Aberdeen. — 

 Mr Innes, so well known for his enthusiastic devotion to Prac- 

 tical Astronomy and his uncommon accuracy in calculation, has 

 just published his Tables for 1827. This little work, now so 

 indispensable to mariners and others, although requiring no com- 

 mendation from us, we cannot allow to run its career without 

 again expressing our conviction, from experience, of the perfect 

 accuracy (and here every thing depends on accuracy), of all its 

 calculations and details. 



List of Patents granted in England, from ISth September to 

 18th November 1826. 



1826, 

 Sept. 18. To R. Williams, Norfolk Street, Strand, for an improved method 



of manufacturing Hats and Caps, with the assistance of machinery. 

 Oct. 4. To J. R. Chaid, Somersetshire, lace-manufacturer, for improvements 



in machinery for making Net, commonly called Bobbin or Twist 



Net. 



