List of Patents. 406 



17. Leonhard and Bronn's Jahrbuch der Mineralogie und Geognosie, 

 up to 1848. 



18. The Journal of Agriculture and the Transactions of the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland, up to March 1848. W. Blackwood 

 & Sons, Edinburgh. 



19. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal up to November 1847, 

 inclusive. 



20. Mineralogie von Franz von Kobell. NUrnberg. 1847. 



21. Geognosie, von Dr Philipp von Volger. Wien. 1847. 



22. Bericht Uber die Mittheilungen. Von Freunden der Naturwis- 

 eenschaften zu Wien. Von William Haidinger. 1st Band, from May to 

 October 1846, inclusive. A valuable record of the proceedings of a new 

 and very promising Association. 1847. 



23. Professor Poggendorf 's Annalen der Physic und Chemie, have not 

 been received for many months. 



24. The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. N. 1. 

 to 7. Singapore, Printed at the Mission Press. 1847. This new pe- 

 riodical does honour to the editor and intelligent gentlemen associated 

 with him, and promises to open tip a new and rich field to the Natural 

 Historian, and to the cultivator of the Statistics of India. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d December 1847 

 to 21d March 1848. 



1. To Robert Wilson, of Greenock, in North Britain, Master of 

 Arts, " improvements in certain kinds of rotatory engines, worked by 

 steam or other elastic fluids, part of which improvements are applica- 

 ble to rotatory engines worked by water or by the wind ; also an improve- 

 ment in safety-valves for steam-boilers." — 29th December 1847. 



2. To William Edward Staite, of Lombard Street, in the city of 

 London, gentleman, " certain improvements in lighting, and in the 

 apparatus used therein, parts of which are applicable to other useful 

 purposes." — Slst December 1847. 



3. To Geoeoe Alexander Millar, of Piccadilly, in the county of 

 Middlesex, " improvements in lamps."— 5th January 1848. 



4. To George Ambroise Michant, of Epieds, in the kingdom of 

 France, gentleman, now residing at Gerrard Street, Soho, in the county 

 of Middlesex, " improvements in the production and application of heat, 

 and in the manufacture of coke." — 10th January 1848. 



