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26. To James K. Howe, of the city of New York, in the United States 

 of America, manufacturer, " improvements in building ships and other 

 vessels."— 12th May 1848. 



27. To Richard Baird, of Dundee, in the county of Forfar, Scotland, 

 engineer, " a new or an improved method of communication between the 

 guards, engine-drivers, and other servants in charge of trains of carriages 

 and waggons on railways, and also between the passengers and engine- 

 drivers, and other servants in charge of such trains." — 16th May 1848. 



28. To Thomas Hunt Barber, of King Street, Cheapside, in the city 

 of London, " improvements in machinery for sawing wood," being a com- 

 munication from abroad. — 24th May 1848. 



29. To Edmund Barber, of Tring, in the county of Herts, decorative 

 painter, " certain improvements in graining and decorating in oil distem- 

 per and other colours, and in imitating marbles, granites, fancy, and 

 other woods, and in the apparatus and instruments to be used therein." — 

 26th May 1848. 



30. To George Henry Bachhoffner, of the Royal Polytechnic Insti- 

 tution, London, doctor of philosophy, professor of natural philosophy, 

 " improved means of transmitting, communicating, or conveying intelli- 

 gence." — 31st May 1848. 



31. Benjamin Lathrop, of No. 7 King Street, Cheapside, in the city 

 of London, Esquire, " an improved wheel for railway purposes," being 

 partly communicated from certain foreigners residing abroad. — 7th June 

 1848. 



32. To Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon, of Abingdon Street, in the 

 city of Westminster, civil engineer, " an improvement or improvements 

 in railways." — 7th June 1848. 



33. To William Rocke, of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, en- 

 gineer, "a new mode of treating and applying wrought iron." — 12th 

 June 1848. 



34. To Edward Brown, of Adam's Court, in the city of London, gen- 

 tleman, " certain carbonic compounds formed of earth, vegetable, animal, 

 and mineral rubbish, faecal substances, the waste of manufactories, and 

 certain acids and alkalies, which compounds are applicable as manures," 

 being a communication from abroad. — 16th June 1848. 



35. To George Phibbrick Swinboene, of Pimlico, in the county of 

 Middlesex, gentleman, " certain improvements in the manufacture of gela- 

 tinous substances." — 16th June 1848. 



36. To John Scoffern, of Upper Holloway, M.B., " improvements in 

 the manufacture and refining of sugar." — 21st June 1848. 



37. To Alexander Parkes, of Birmingham, in the county of War- 

 wick, experimental chemist, '' improvements in the manufacture of metals, 

 and in coating iron and steel." — 21st June 1848. 



