410 List of Patents, 1826-7. 



To William Bush of Broad Street, In the city of London. Esq. 

 for " certain improvements in propelling boats and ships, and other 

 1827, vessels or floating bodies." 

 Jan. 15. To Henry Richardsok Fanshawe of Addle Street, in the city of 

 London, silk-embosser, for " an improved winding machine.'* 

 To MosE Poole of the Patent-Office, Lincoln's Inn, in the county 

 of Middlesex, gentleman, for an invention communicated to him 

 by a foreigner residing abroad, " of certain improvements in the 

 machines used for carding, slubbing, slivering, roving, or spinning 

 J wool, cotton, waste silk, short staples, hemp, or flax, or any other 

 fibrous materials, or mixtures thereof." 

 Feb. 2. To John Frederick Daniell of Gower Street, Bedford Square, 

 in the county of Middlesex, ^Esq. for " certain improvements in 

 the manufacture of gas for the purposes of illumination." 

 To Maurice de Jongh of Warrington, cotton-spinner, for " cer- 

 tain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing ro- 

 vings, and for spinning, twisting, and twining fibrous substances." 

 7. To James FRASERof Houndsditch, in the city of London, engineer, 



for "■ a new method of constructing steam-boilers." 

 13. To Robert Stirling, minister of Galston, in the county of Ayr, 

 North Britain, and James Stirling, engineer in Glasgow, in the 

 county of Lanark, North Britain, for " certain improvements in 

 air-engines, for the moving of machinery ." 

 16. To James Fraser of Houndsditch, in the city of London, for " an 



improved method of constructing capstans and windlasses." 

 24. To Robert Bush and William King Westley of Leeds, in the 

 county of York, flax-spinners, for " certain improvements in ma- 

 ,;. ,. chinery for heckling or dressing, and for breaking, scutdiing, or 



cleaning hemp, flax, or fibrous substances." 





LIST OF PLATES. \ ,|^; :^v^ 



Plate I. Fig. 1-5. Little Andaman Island, &c. 



6-9. Awn of the Seed vessel of Stipa pennata. 



10. Anatina villosiuscula. 



1 1. Venerupis Nucleus. 

 11. Illustrations of Dr Grant's Observations on Spongia. 



III. Fig. 1. Eruption of American Lakes. 



2. Libellulite of Solenhoffen. 



IV. Illustrations of Mr Scoresby's observations on Rainbows. 

 V. Explanatory of Mr Barlow's view of Magnetism. 



Memorandum. — Want of room has obliged us to delay several Articles and 

 Notices of New Publications, and also to limit more than usual the Scientific 

 Intelligence. 



