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N^A^Bms in the manufacture of gas, and in the apparatus employed for con' 

 suming gas for the purposes of producing light." — 7th Februaiy 1840, 



32. To John Francois Victor Fabien of King Street, in the city of 

 London, gentleman, being a communication from a certain foreigner residing 

 abroad, " improvements in pumps."— 12th Februaiy 1840. 



33. To Jonathan Fell of Workington, in the county of Cumberloud, 

 ship-builder, " improvements in building ships and other vessels." — 12th 

 February 1840. 



34. To John Reynolds of Victoria Hotel, Euston Square, in the county 

 of- Middlesex, Esquire, " improvements in the manufacture of salt." — 12th 

 February 1840. 



35. To Henry Pinkus, late of Pensylvania, in the United States of 

 America, but now of 77 Oxford Street, in the county of Middlesex, gentle- 

 man, " improvements in inland transit, some of which improvements are 

 applicable to, and may be combined with, an improved method of, or appa- 

 ratus for, communicating and transmitting or extending motive power, 

 by means whereof carriages or waggons may be propelled on railways or 

 roads, and vessels may be propelled on canals." — 19th February 1840. 



36. To James Beaumont NeIlson of Glasgow, gentleman, " certain im- 

 proved methods of coating u-ou under various circumstances, to prevent 

 oxidation or corrosion, and for other pm-poses." — 25th February 1840. 



37. To William Pontifex of Shoe Lane, in the city of London, " an 

 improvement in treating fluids containing colouring matter, to obtain the 

 colouring matter therefrom." — 3d March 1840. 



38. To Thomas Oram of 27 East Street, Eed Lion Squai-e, in the county 

 of Middlesex, gentleman, " improvements in the manufacture of fuel." — 5th 

 Miuch 1840. 



39. To William Forrester, residing in Ban-head, in the county of 

 Renfrew, manager at Levern Mill, " certain improvements in sizing, stai-ch- 

 ing, and otherwise preparing warps for weaving fabrics, and in the machinery 

 or apparatus therewith connected." — 6th March 1840. 



40. To John Burn Smith of Salford, in the parish of Manchester, in the 

 C junty of Lancaster, cotton spinner, '■ certain improvements in machinery 

 for preparing, roving, spinning, and twisting cotton and other fibrous sub- 

 stances."— Cth Mai-ch 1840. 



41. To Laurence Wood Fletcher of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Man- 

 chester, in the county of Lancaster, machinist, " an improvement or im- 

 provements in the manufacture of woollen and other cloths or fabrics, and 

 in the application of such cloths or fabrics to various useful purposes." — 

 14th March 1840. 



42. To Joseph Schofield of Littieborough, in the county of Lancaster, 

 cotton-spinner and fustian manufacturer, and Edmund Leach of Little- 

 borough aforesaid, manager of cotton spinners and weavers, " certain im- 

 provements in looms for weaving various kinds of cloth." — 18th March 1840. 



43. To William Maltby junior, of Mile End, chemist, and Richard 

 Cuerton, brassfounder, of Percy Street, in the county of Middlesex, " im- 

 provements in extracting and concentrating the color, tanin, and other mat- 

 ters contained in vegetable and animal su1t>stances," — 18th March 1840. 



