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List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d December 1848, 

 to 22d March 1849. 



1. To Stephen Taylor, of Ludgate Hill, in the city of London, 

 gentleman, " certain improvements in the construction of fire-arms, and 

 in cartridges for charging the same," being a communication from abroad. 

 —26th December 1848. 



2. George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the county of 

 Surrey, gentleman, and Charles Humphrey, of Manor Street, Old Kent 

 Road, in the said county of Surrey, merchant, " improvements in the pro- 

 duction of light by burning oleic acid in lamps, and in the construction of 

 lamps, and manufacture or preparation of oleic acid for that purpose." — 

 28th December 1848. 



3. To William Gilmour Wilson, of Port-Dundas, Glasgow, en- 

 gineer, " improvements in the formation of moulds and cores of moulds 

 for casting iron and other substances." — 4th January 1849. 



4. Robert Angus Smith, of Manchester, " improvements in the appli- 

 cation and preparation of coal-tar." — 4th January 1849. 



5. Edward Schdnch, of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster, che- 

 mist, " improvements in the manufacture of malleable iron, and in treat- 

 ing other products obtained in the process." — 8th January 1849. 



6. To John Mitchell, chemist, Henry Alderson, civil-engineer, and 

 Thomas Warriner, farmer, of Lyons Wharf, Upper Fore Street, Lam- 

 beth, in the county of Surrey, '' improvements in smelting copper." — 10th 

 January 1849. 



7. To John Wright, of Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, engineer, 

 " improvements in generating steam and evaporating fluids." — 10th 

 January 1849. 



8. To David Yoolow Stewart, of Montrose, in the kingdom of Scot- 

 land, iron-founder, " improvements in the manufacture of moulds and 

 cores of moulds for casting iron and other substances." — 10th January 

 1849. 



9. To Richard Roberts, of the Globe Works, Manchester, in the 

 county of Lancaster, *' certain improvements in, and applicable to clocks, 

 and other time-keepers in machinery, or apparatus for winding clocks and 

 hoisting weights, and for effecting telegraphic communication between dis- 

 tant clocks and places, otherwise than by electro-magnetism." — 11th 

 January 1849. 



10. To Edward Slaughter, of the Avonside Iron- Works, Bristol, 

 engineer, " improvements in marine steam-engines." — 12th January 1849. 



11 . To Israel Kinsman, late of New York, but now of Ludgate Hill, 

 in the city of London, " improvements in the construction of rotary« 

 engines, to be worked by steam or other elastic fluid," being a com m un i- 

 cation from abroad. — 12th January 1849. 



12. To Edward Smith, of Kentish Town, in the county of Middlesex, 

 blind-manufacturer, " improvements in window-blinds, and in spring!, 

 applicable to window-blinds, doors, and other like puiposes." — 16th 

 January 1849. 



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