REPORT ON THE MODES OF PRINTING FOR THE BLIND. 93 
on the title page of the Testament and the small type of the 
same. 
“Tf the British and Foreign Bible Society would undertake 
‘to appropriate funds for this purpose, and present to the blind 
of England and this country an edition of the Psalms, it would 
confer happiness and a blessing upon many. 
*°P.S. November 24. Our Geography is finished, and our 
press is now throwing off an edition of ‘ The Sixpenny Glass of 
Wine,’ printed at the expense of the American Sunday School 
Union. 
“1 hope your Society will allow us to send you the Psalms ; 
it would make one snug volume and be finished in four weeks.”’ 
In April 1832 the committee of the Society for the Encourage- 
ment of the useful Arts in Scotland, presented their report upon a 
method of printing for the blind invented by Mr. Hay of Edin- ° 
burgh, and in consequence of their recommendation the So- 
ciety, in the following year, offered their gold medal, value 20/., 
“for the best communication on a method of printing for the 
use of the blind.’’ The authors of the communications were re- 
quired to “‘ investigate what form and size of the letters or cha- 
racters, and what 2wmber of those should be adopted, with a 
view to constructing a general alphabet for the blind in Great 
Britain and Ireland; and secondly, the best and cheapest me- 
thods of printing such letters or characters in relief, so as to 
render them most easily and accurately distinguishable by the 
touch.” 
_ In consequence of this notice, communications with printed 
q and written specimens of alphabets, types, &c. were received by 
3 the Society. 
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For Competition. From Mr. Alexander Hay of Edinburgh ; 
_Mr. J. P. Walker, Glasgow ; Miss M. Banks, Edinburgh ; Mr. 
_ Mungo Ponton, Edinburgh; Mr. John Henderson, Edinburgh; 
Mr. John Richardson, Edinburgh; Rev. Edw. Craig, Edin- 
burgh; Mr. James Gall, Edinburgh ; Dr. Edmund Fry, Lon- 
~ don ; Mr. Richard Eaton, Coventry ; Mr. D. Macpherson, Edin- 
burgh; Mr. John Lothian, Edinburgh; Mr. Robert Milne, 
_ Edinburgh; Mr. John Johnstone, Glasgow; Mr. J. Jones, 
_ Bishop Wearmouth. : 
| Not for Competition. From Lady C. Erskine, Edinburgh, 
| two letters on the subject, but no alphabet; Mr. D. Vallance, 
| Lanarkshire, method of teaching the blind to read; Dr. R. K. 
‘Greville, Edinburgh, alphabet; J. Simpson, Esq., advocate, 
| Edinburgh, alphabet. 
| A Committee was appointed by the Society to consider and 
| Teport upon these several communications.—Now as “ twelve of 
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