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Drawings, &c., for which Prizes shall be given, shall be held to be 

 the property of the Society ; and these and all others which are 

 approved of by the Society shall be entitled to a place in the 

 Museum. 



The Society particularly request, that all communications intend- 

 ed for competition may be forwarded to the Secretary as soon after 

 \st November 1837 as possible, in order to ensure their being read 

 and reported on during the Session. Bvt they will be received at 

 any time till \st April 1838. 



Communications, Models, &c., to be addressed and forwarded to 

 the Secretary, at the Museum of the Society of Arts, 63 Ha- 

 nover Street, Edinburgh ; and it is requested, that, in all cases, 

 full descriptions of the Inventions may be sent ; and, where the na- 

 ture of the communication requires it, that there be also sent rela- 

 tive Models, Drawings, or Sketches, so as to enable the Society fully 

 to judge of the merits of the communication. 



KoTAL Institution, Edinburgh, S^^/w/y 1837. 



List of Patents granted in Scotland from \9.th June to 9,0th 

 September 18S7, inclusive. 



1. To PiERHE Bartlemy Guinibert Debae, of Brixton, in the county 

 of Surrey, civil engineer, for an invention of " improvements applicable to 

 railroads."— 12th June 1837. 



2. To Joel Livsey, of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, cotton-spinner, 

 for an invention of " certain improvements in machinery used for spinning, 

 preparing, and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances." — 21st June 

 1837. 



3. To Alexander Macewan, grocer and tea-merchant in Glasgow, for an 

 invention of " a process for the improvement of teas as ordinarily imported." 

 — 2Cth June 1837. 



4. To James Leonard Clement Thomas, of Covent-Garden, in the 

 county of Middlesex, Esq., for an invention, communicated by a foreigner 

 residing abroad, of " an improvement applicable to steam-engines and steam- 

 generators, having for its object economy of fuel.'' — 7th July 1837. 



5. To John Spurgin, of Guildford Street, Russell Square, in the county 

 of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, for an invention of " an improvement or 

 improvements in tl.e mode or means of propelling vessels through the water, 

 and part of which means may be applied to other useful purposes." — 14th 

 July 1837. 



6. To George Nelson, of Leamington Priors, in the county of Warwick, 

 gentleman, for an invention of "a certain new or improv2d process or pro- 



