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Art. XV. Miscellaneous Intelligence. 

 1. Mechanical Science. 

 § Mechanics, the Arts, &c. 



1. Letter from Messrs. Parkinson and Frodsham, to the Editor 

 of the Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, relating to the 

 Chronometers employed in the late Arctic expeditioii. 



Sill, 



We take the liberty to address ourselves to you in the hope 

 that our communication will be considered to fall within the 

 plan of your Journal, which expressly concerns itself in the 

 interests of science and of the arts. 



We are the makers of the chronometers which have received 

 so favourable a report in the Official Account of the late Arctic 

 Expedition; confident of our workmanship, we ventured them 

 on so severe a trial at our own expense, for the purpose of ad- 

 vancino- our reputation ; it will appear but reasonable, therefore, 

 that we should be solicitous to possess that which we have been 

 at much pains to obtain, and on which the prosperity of our 

 business depends. 



Soon after the return of the Expedition, it came to our know- 

 ledge that a report was in circulation, and had even obtained 

 credit with gentlemen distinguished in science, that we were the 

 sellers only and not the makers of the chronometers which had 

 borne our name, and that Mr. Molyneux, previously known as 

 a workman employed in making chronometers, was the real 

 maker ; we lost no time in obtaining and making public 

 Mr. Molyneux's statement that he had never even seen the chro- 

 nometers in question, and at the same time we asserted our 

 own rio-ht to be considered the makers. 



We hoped that we had thus terminated all doubts especially 

 as there has been no other claimant than ourselves ; it was there- 

 fore with equal surprise and concern that we read a note in the 

 review of Captain Parry's Voyage in the 49th Number of the 

 Quarterly Review, expressing an opinion that neither Mr. Moly- 

 neux nor ourselves, but some third person, (whom however the 

 reviewer neither names nor specifies), was the real maker of the 

 chronometers, the merits of which he was pleased to notice. 



We might reasonably have complained that an opinion, affect- 

 ing so materially our reputation and trade, should have been 

 admitted in so respectable a work without at least more consi- 

 deration and inquiry than had obviously been bestowed ; we 

 however overlooked this, and took the more moderate course of 

 appealing to the right feeling and justice of the Editor himself 



