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41. To William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, QQ 

 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, " a certain 

 improvement or improvements in the construction of wheels," being a com- 

 munication from abroad. — 5th March 1849. 



42. To John Smith of Hare, Craig, Dundee, factor to Lord Douglas, 

 of Douglas, " improvements in the manufacture of flour applicable in 

 the making of bread, biscuits, or pastry." — 6th March 1849. 



43. To William Edwards Staite, of Throgmorton Street, in the 

 city of London, civil engineer, " improvements in the construction of 

 galvanic batteries in the formation of magnets, and in the application of 

 electricity and magnetism, for the purpose of lighting and signalising, as 

 also a mode or modes of employing the said galvanic batteries, or some 

 of them, for the purpose of obtaining chemical products." — 7th March 

 184 3. 



44. Charles Thomas Peakce, of Park Road, Regent's Park, in the 

 county of Middlesex, Esquire, " improvements in apparatus for obtaining 

 light by electric agency." — 7th March 1849. 



45. To Richard Laming, of Clichy-la-Garenne, in the republic of 

 France, chemist, " improvements in the modes of obtaining or manufac- 

 turing sulphuric acid, partly his own invention, and partly a communi- 

 cation from abroad." — 9th March 1849. 



46. To George Nasmyth, of Great George Street, in the city of 

 Westminster, " certain improvements in the construction of fire-proof 

 flooring and roofing, which improvements are also applicable to the con- 

 struction of viaducts, aqueducts, and culverists." — 12th March 1849. 



47. To Thomas Henry Russell, of Wednesbury, patent tube-manu- 

 facturer, and John Stephen, Woolrich, of Birmingham, chemist, " im- 

 provements in coating iron, and certain other metals and alloys of metals." 

 —13th March 1849. 



48. To George Fergusson Wilson, of Bellmont, Vauxhall, gentle- 

 man, " improvements in separating the more liquid parts from the more 

 solid parts of fatty and oily matters, and in separating fatty and oily 

 matters from foreign matters, and in the manufacture of candles and night- 

 lights."— 13th March 1849. 



49. To Charles Robert Collins, of Brunswick Street, in the city of 

 Glasgow, North Britain, paper-manufacturer, " a certain improvement or 

 improvements in the manufacture of paper." — 14th March 1849. 



50. John Hick, of Bolton-le-Moors, in the county of Lancaster, en- 

 gineer, and William Hodgson Gratrix, of Salford, in the county of 

 Lancaster, engineer, " certain improvements in steam-engines, which im- 

 provements are more particularly applicable to marine engines, and also 

 improvements in machinery or apparatus for propelling vessels."-^ 16th 

 March 1849. 



51. To William Edward Newton, of the ofiicefor patents, QQ Chan- 

 cery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, " improvements in 

 engines or apparatus principally designed for pumping water," being a 

 communication from abroad. — 19th March 1849. 



52. To William Galloway and John Galloway, of Knott Mill Iron- 

 works, Hulme, in the burgh of Manchester, and county of Lancaster, en- 

 gineers, " certain improvements in steam-engines." — 22d February 1849. 



