214 List of Patents, 



1843. From the Author. M. Schlegel has been long known as one of (he 

 most active and learned ophiologists in Europe, and his work, so far as it 

 goes, is held to be classical. The creatures of the Serpent tribes, often so 

 formidable to man, and even to the lower animals, and remarkable for 

 the elegance of their scaly coverings, the beauty of their colours, and their 

 many curious and important natural relations, cannot but interest the 

 admirer of nature. Hence Ophiology has, from an early period, engaged 

 the attention of many distinguished naturalists, and at the present day every 

 scientific traveller and accomplished physician regard with interest the 

 varied tribes of this great family of the animal kingdom, particularly in 

 tlwse countries where attention is arrested by the frightful energy of their 

 vital powers, their beauty, and colossal magnitude. We may add, that no 

 better guide can be put into the hands of the student of Ophiology or the tra- 

 veller than this translation of SchlegeVs work by Dr Traill. 



24. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. By Andrew Smith, 

 M.D. The Vjth and l^th numbers of this important work have been received. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland, from 20th September 

 to 20th December 1843. 



1. To John MacInnes of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, 

 manufacturing chemist, '* certain improvements in funnels for conduct- 

 ing liquids into vessels." — 2d October 1843. 



2. To GoLDSWORTHY GuRNEY of Great George Street, in the county 

 of Middlesex, gentleman, " certain improvements in apparatus for pro- 

 ducing, regulating, and dispersing light and heat." — 4th October 1843. 



3. To Alfjred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, QQ Chan- 

 cery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, mechanical draftsman, being a 

 communication from abroad, " certain improvements in the manufacture 

 of cyanogen and its compounds, particularly the prussiates of potash 

 and soda."— 13th October 1843. 



4. To James Combe of Leeds, in the county of York, engineer, *' im- 

 provements in heckling, cleaning, preparing, and carding flax and other 

 fibrous substances." — 16th October 1843. 



5. To John Ainslie, farmer, Redheugh, near Dalkeith, North Bri- 

 tain, " a new or improved mode of drying tiles, bricks, retorts and such 

 like work made from clay and other plastic substances." — ^23d October 

 1843. 



6. To Thomas Young of Queen Street, in the city of London, mer- 

 chant, " improvements in obtaining power." — 25th October 1843. 



7. To Moses Poole of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, 

 gentleman, being a communication from abroad, "improvements in the 

 manufacture of ornamental lace or nett.'' — 25th October 1843. 



