List of Patents, 891 



Somerset ; — its natural Subdivisions ; — and its true position iA) the Scald 

 of British Strata. By the Rev. David Williams. 



N.B. — The sections required for the proper understanding of this 

 Memoir did not accompany it — it was, consequently j in an unfit state 

 for republication. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 18/A December 

 1843 to 22d March 1844. 



1. To Henry Austin, of 87 Hatton Garden, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, civil- engineer, " a new method of gluing or cementing certain 

 materials for building and other purposes." — 26th December 1843. 



2. To Francis L'Estrange, of Dawson Street, in the city of Dublin, 

 surgeon, " improvements in hernial trusses, to prevent the descent of 

 hernia through the internal as well as the external ring." — 26th Decem- 

 ber 1843. 



3. To Charlton James "VVollaston, of Welling, in the county of Kent, 

 gentleman, being a communication from abroad, " improvements in ma- 

 chinery for cutting marble and stone." — 26th December 1843. 



4. To George Gwynne, of Regent Street, in the county of Middlesex, 

 and George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the county of 

 Surrey, gentleman, " improvements in the manufacture of candles, and 

 in apparatus for and processes of treating fatty and oily matters to ob- 

 tain products for the manufacture of candles and other uses." — 29th 

 December 1843. 



5. To Margaret Henrietta Marshall, of Manchester, in the county 

 of Lancaster, *' a certain improved plastic composition, applicable to the 

 fine arts and to useful and ornamental purposes." — 5th January 1844. 



7. To James Champion, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, and 

 Thomas Marsden of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, machine-makers, 

 " improvements in drawing, winding, and spinning cotton and other 

 fibrous substances." — 9th January 1844. 



8. To James Overend, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, gentle- 

 man, being a communication from abroad, '* improvements in printing 

 fabrics with metallic matters, and in finishing silks and other fabrics."— 

 9th January 1844. 



9. To Charles Townsend Christian, of St Martin's Place, St Mar- 

 tin's Lane, in the county of Middlesex, East India Army Agent, being 

 a communication from abroad, '* improvements in the construction of 

 steam-engines." — 12th January 1844. 



10. To William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 

 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, being a com- 

 munication from abroad, " improvements in machinery or apparatus for 

 facilitating the tracing or copying of designs, drawings, and etchings of 

 all kinds, either of the original size, or upon an enlarged op reduced 

 scale."— 15th January 1844. 



11. To William Nichol, lithographer and printer in Edinburgh, 



