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ing calicoes and other fabrics of cotton, silk, wool, paper, or linen, separately 



or intermixed.'' — 1st December 1837, 



23. To William Wilkinson, of Lucas Street, in the parish of St George 

 in the East, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention of " a 

 certain improvement or certain improvements in the mechanism, or machi- 

 nery by which steam-power is a|)i)lied to give motion to ships or other float- 

 ing vessels in or through water." — 4th December 1837. 



24. To Henry Blundell, of Hall, in the county of York, paint and co- 

 lour manufacturer, in consequence of a communication made to him by a cer- 

 tain foreigner residing abroad, for an invention of " an improved method of 

 operating upon certain vegetable and animal substances, in the process of 

 manufacturing candles therefrom, and the application of certain products re- 

 sulting from this method to various useful purposes." — 7th December 1837. 



25. To John Hall, of New Ratford, in the county of Nottingham, 

 lace manufacturer, for an invention of " certain improvements in ma- 

 chinery, whereby cloth and other woven fabrics of various kinds may be ex- 

 tended, or stretched and dried in an extended state." — 7th December 1837- 



2G. To John Upton, of Horsley Down Lane, in the county of Surrey, en- 

 gineer, for an invention of " an improved method or methods of generating 

 steam power, and apjjlj'ing the same to ploughing, harrowing, and other agri- 

 cultural purposes, which method or methods is or are also applicable to other 

 purposes to which the power of steam is or may be applied." — 8th December 

 1837. 



27. To William Herai'ath, of the City of Bristol, in the county of 

 Somerset, philosophical chemist, and James Fletcher Cox of the same place, 

 tanner, for an invention of " certain improvement or improvements in the 



• process of tanning." — 8th December 1837- 



28. To Joshua Taylor Beale, of Church Lane, Whitechapel, in the 

 county of Middlesex, engineer, for an invention of " certain improvements 

 in, and additions to his former invention, known by the title of a lamp appli- 

 cable to the burning of substances not hitherto usually burned in such vessels 

 or apparatuses, and secured to him by letters-patent, bearing date at West- 

 minster the fourth day of January, in the fourth year of the reign of his late 

 Majesty King William the Fourth." — 11th December 1837. 



29. To William P'othergill Cooke, of Breed's Place, Hastings, in the 

 county of Sussex, Esq., and Charles Wheatstone, of Conduit Street, Hanover 

 Square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. for an invention of" improvements 

 in giving signals and sounding alarms at distant places by means of electric 

 currents, transmitted through metallic circuits." — 12th December 1837- 



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

 county of Middlesex, Esij. in consequence of a communication from a foreigner 

 residing abroad, for an invention of "^ an improvement applicable to steam-en- 

 gines and steam generators, having for its object economy of fuel." — 20th De- 

 cember 1837- 



31. To Thomas Joyce, of Clerkenwell New Road, in the county of Sur- 

 rey, gardener, for an invention of" improved apparatus for heating churches, 

 warehouses, shops, factories, hothouses, carriages, and other places requiring 

 artificial heat and improved fuel, to be used therewith." — 20th December 

 1837- 



