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cotton- spinner, '' certain improvements in machinery for spinning and 

 twisting cotton and other fibrous substances," — 24tli November 1S43. 



21. To JouN Withers of Smethwick, in the county of Stafiord, 

 manufacturing manager, ^' an improvement or improvements in the 

 manufacture of glass." — 24th November 1843. 



22. To Henry Austin of No. 87 Hatton Garden, in the county of 

 Middlesex, civil-engineer, " improvements in wood-pavements, floorings, 

 and veneers." — 27th November 1843. 



23. To William Bush of Union Street, Deptford, in the county of 

 Kent, engineer, " improvements in rendering magnetic needles less pre- 

 judicially influenced by local attraction." — 28th November 1843. 



24. To Henry Richardson Fansiiawe the younger, late of Four- 

 ville le Pont, in the kingdom of Finance, but now of Wilds-rents, Ber- 

 mondsey, in the county of Surrey, chemist, ''^improvements in curing 

 hides and skins, and in tanning, washing, and cleaning hides, skins, and 

 other matters." — 28th November 1843. 



25. To Arthur Wall of Bisterne Place, Poplar, in the county of 

 Middlesex, surgeon, "■ certain improvements in the manufacture of iron." 

 —28th November 1843. 



2Q, To John George Bodmer of Manchester, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, engineer, " certain improvements in grates, furnaces, and boilers, 

 and also in the manufacturing of iron or other metals." — ^29th Novem- 

 ber 1843. 



27. To Thomas Drayton of Brigliton, in the county of Sussex, gen_ 

 tleman, *' improvements in coating glass with silver for looking-glasses 

 and other uses." — 4th December 1843. 



28. To Francis Higginson of the town of Rochester, in the county 

 of Kent, lieutenant in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, '* certain improve- 

 ments in fastenings for parts of ships and other vessels, which improve- 

 ments are also applicable to other building purposes." — 14th December 

 1843. 



29. Jo John Hick of Bolton-le-Moors, in the county of Lancaster, 

 engineer, " certain improvements in steam-engines, and in apparatus to 

 be connected therewith for driving machinery, part of which improve- 

 ments are applicable to forcing, lifting, and measuring water." — 15th 

 December 1843. 



30. To Lawrence Hardman of Liverpool, in the county of Lancas- 

 ter, merchant, '* certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus to be 

 employed in the manufacture of sugar." — 18th December 1843. 



