412 List of Scottish Patents. 



Aug. 18. To Geohgk Givivett Bompas of Fishponds, near Bristol, Esq. 

 M. D., for an invention of " an improved method of preserving 

 copper and other metals from corrosion or ozydation." 

 To Isaac Higgiks of London Street, in the city of London, mer- 

 chant, for an invention in consequence of a communication made 

 to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, " of certain im- 

 provements in extracting sugar or syrup from cane-juice and 

 other substances containing sugar, and in refining sugar and 

 syrups." 

 23. To Benjamin Ainsworth of the parish of Birmingham, in the 

 county of Warwick, button-maker, for an invention of " an im- 

 provement in the making and constructing of buttons." 



Omitted last Number. 

 June 2. To Akdrew Ube of Finsbury Circus, in the county of Middle- 

 sex, M. D., for an invention of " an improved apparatus for 

 distilling." 



