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List of Patents granted for Scotland from l^th September to 

 22d December 1840. 



1. To John Lambert of No. 12 Coventry Street, in the parish of Saint 

 James, within the liberty of the city of Westminster, gentleman, being a 

 communication from abroad, " certain improvements in the manufacture of 

 soap." — 24th September 1840. 



2. To James Buchanan, merchant in Glasgow, " certain improvements 

 in the machinery applicable to the preparing, twisting, and spinning, and also 

 in the mode of preparing, twisting, and spinning of hemp, flax, and other 

 fibrous substances, and certain improvements in the mode of applying tar 

 or other preservative to rope and other yarns."— 24th September 1840. 



3. To Alexander Francis Campbell of Great Plumstead, in the county 

 of Norfolk, Esquire, and Charles White of the city of Norwich, mechanic, 

 " improvements in ploughs and certain other agricultural implements." — 

 29th September 1840. 



4. To Amand de Planque of Lisle, in the kingdom of France, but now 

 residing at 126 Regent Street, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, being 

 a communication from abroad, " improvements in looms for weaving." — 

 29th September 1840. 



5. To George Delianson Clark of the Strand, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, gentleman, being a communication from abroad, " improvements in coke 

 ovens."— 5th October 1840. 



6. To Richard Beard of Egremont Place, New Road, in the countv of 

 Middlesex, gentleman, being a communication from abroad, " improvements 

 in printing calicoes and other fabrics."— 7th October 1840. 



7. To Robert Beart of Godmanehester, in the county of Huntingdon, 

 miller, " improvements in apparatus for filtering fluids." — 14th October 1840. 



8. To Thomas Farmer of Grumesbury House, near Acton, in the county 

 of Middlesex, Esquire, " improvements in treating pyrites and other matters 

 to obtain sulphur, sulphurous acid, and other products." — 14th October 1840. 



9. To Thomas Smedley of Holywell, Flintshire, gentleman, " certain im- 

 provements in the manufacture of tubes, pipes, and cylinders." — 27th Octo- 

 ber 1840. 



10. To George Hickes of Manchester, agent, " an improved machine for 

 cleaning or freeing wool and other fibrous materials of burs and other sub- 

 stances."— 27th October 1840. 



11. To Miles Berry of the office for patents, 66 Chancery Lane, in the 

 county of Middlesex, patent-agent, being a communication from abroad, 

 " certain improvements in the arrangement, construction, and mode of ap- 

 plying certain apparatus for propelling ships and other vessels." — 29th Oc- 

 tober 1840. 



12. To Edmund Rudqe junior, of Tewkesbury in the county of Glouces- 

 ter, tanner, " a new method or methods of obtaining power for locomotive 

 and other purposes, and of applying the same." — 2d November 1840. 



13. To Benjamin Hick junior, of Bolton-le-Moors in the county of Lan- 

 caster, engineer, " certain improvements in regulators or governors, for re- 

 gulating or adjusting the speed of rotary motion of steam-wheels, water- 

 wheels, and other machinery." — 3d November 1840. 



14. To John Condib, manager of the Blair Iron Works in the parish of 

 Dairy in the county of Ayr in Scotland, " improvements in applying springs 

 to locomotive and railway and other carriages." — 4th November 1840. 



15. ToLuKK HEBEETof Birmingham in the county of Warwick, solicitor 

 of patents, being a communication from abroad, " improvements in the ma- 



