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List of Patents granted for Scotland, from \2th June to 

 22d September 1845. 



1. To Joseph Quick of Sumner Street, South wark, in the county of 

 Surrey, engineer, — " an improvement in steam-engines." — 12th June 

 1845. 



2. To JosEi-H Washington Tyson of Burton Crescent, in the county 

 of Middlesex, Esquire, being a communication from abroad, — " improve- 

 ments in fire-arms and ordnance." — 12th June 1845. 



3. To John Dewrance of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, en- 

 gineer, — " certain improvements in steam boilers, and in the construc- 

 tion, composition, and manufacture of bearings, steps, and other rub- 

 bing surfaces of steam-engines and other machinery, and also for a me- 

 thod of lubricating the same." — 16th June 1845. 



4. To Warren-de la-Rue of BunhiU Row, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, manufacturer, — " improvements in covering the surfaces of paper 

 and other materials with color and other substances." — 17th June 1845. 



5. Henry Whiting of Southwark Bridge Road, in the county of Sur- 

 rey, hatter's furrier, being a conuuunication from abroad, — " certain 

 improvements in machinery or apparatus for shaping the brims of hats." 

 — I7th June 1845. 



6. To Laurence Hill junior, of the city of Glasgow, in the county of 

 Lanark, in Scotland, civil and mechanical engineer, — " an improved 

 brake for railway carriages." — 19th June 1845. 



7. To David Henderson of London Works, Renfrew, in the county 

 of Renfrew, civil-engineer, — " certain improvements in cranes." — 19th 

 June 1845. 



8. To Robert Addison of Regent Street, in the county of Middlesex, 

 piano-forte manufacturer, being a communication from abroad, — " im- 

 provements in piano- fortes." — 23d June 1845. 



9. To Charles Smith of No. 13 Newcastle Street, Strand, in the 

 county of Middlesex, gentleman, — " new and improved methods in the 

 construction and application of a variety of cooking, culinary and domes- 

 tic articles and utensils, some of Avhich are applicable to cleaning, and a 

 variety of similar useful purposes." — 24th June 1845. 



10. To James Johnston of Willow Park, Greenock, Esquire — " new 

 and improved processes, and machinery for making and refining sugar."—- 

 26th June 1845. 



11. To AuGusTE Cherot of Nantes, in the kingdom of France, spin- 

 ner, being a communication from abroad, — " certain improvements in 

 machinery for spinning flax, hemp, and other fibrous materials." — 30th 

 June 1845. 



12. To Charles Wheatstone of Conduit Street, in the county of 

 Middlesex, Esquire, and William Fotheugill Cooke of Kidbrooke, 

 near BlaCkheath, in tlie county of Kent, Esq\iire, — " improvements in 

 electric telegrai)}is, and in ajjparatus relating thereto, part of wliicli im- 

 provements are ajiplicable to otlier purposes." — 3d July 1845. 



13. To David GIavin Scott, residing at Cromwell Park, in the 

 county of Perth, Scotland, being a communication from abroad, — ''an 



