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tain fatty or oily matters, and in the manufacture of candles and night 

 lights."— 3d February 1848. 



15. To Henkt Bessemer, of Baxter House, Old St Pancras Road, in 

 the county of Middlesex, engineer, " improvements in the manufacture of 

 plates, sheets, or panes of glass." — 3d February 1848. 



16. To William Thomas, of 129 Cheapside, gentleman, being a com- 

 munication from abroad, " certain improvements in stays, which improve- 

 ments are applicable to other useful purposes." — 3d February 1848. 



17. To John Harvey Sadler, of Holbeck, Leeds, in the county of 

 York, Scotch iron-merchant, " improvements in constructing bridges, 

 aqueducts, and similar structures."— 4th February 1848. 



18. To AiME BouHA, of Rathbone Place, in the county of Middlesex, 

 dyer and scourer, " improvements in extracting colouring matters." — 7th 

 February 1848. 



19. To John Frederick Bateman, of Manchester, in the county of 

 Lancaster, civil engineer, and Alfred Moore, of the same place, civil en- 

 gineer, " certain improvements in valves or plugs for the passage of water 

 or other fluids." — 7th February 1848. 



20. To William Longmaid, of London, gentleman, " improvements 

 in the manufacture of alkali and chlorine." — 8th February 1848. 



21. To Thomas Hancock, of Stoke Xewington, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, Esquire, " improvements in fabrics elasticat?d by gutta percha, or 

 any of the varieties of caoutchouc." — 11th February 1848. 



22. To Godfrey Anthony Eemen, of Manchester, in the countyof Lan- 

 caster, cotton-spinner, " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus 

 for twisting cotton, or other fibrous substances." — 18th February 1848. 



23. To Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 Chan- 

 cery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman, " im- 

 proved machinery for manufacturing shot and other solid balls," communi- 

 cation from abroad. — 18th February 1848. 



24. To Charles Hancock, of Brompton, in the county of Middlesex, 

 gentleman, " improvements in the preparation of gutta percha, and in the 

 application thereof, alone and in combination with other materials, to 

 various manufacturing purposes." — 25th February 1848. 



25. To Thomas Potts, of Birmingham, brass-tube maker, " improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of tubular flues of locomotive and other steam 

 boilers." — 28th February 1848. 



26. To Edwaud Newman Foi-hdrinikr, of Chiddleton, in the county 



