Fihslury Dispensary. — List of Patents. 3G*J 



FINSBUIiY DISPENSARV. 



At the late election for Surgeon to this Institution the 

 numbers were ; for Mr. Taunton 350; for Mr. Smith 143. 

 —Majority in favour of the former, 207. 



Mr. Taunton's Lectures on Anatomv and Physiology 

 will commence at the Fuisbury Dispensary, on Saturday, 

 October 5. 



LIST OF PATENTS fOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



James Noble, of Coggershall, in the county of Essex, 

 worsted-spinner; for a machine for discharging a wool- 

 comb or combs, by separating the tears from the noiles, 

 and drawing what is commonly called a sliver or slivers 

 from the comb or combs after or before the combs are 

 worked, or the wool is combed upon the same. 



William Kent, of the borough of Plymouth, in the 

 county of Devon, merchant and agent ; for certain addi- 

 tions and improvement,!? in a sort of candlestick (in common 

 use), which will he found to prevent accidental fires in the 

 use of candles, by which so many valuable lives are lost, 

 and such immense property consumed ; and which will not 

 be confined to chamber use, but, being made on a larger 

 scale, will be found equallv useful in shops, warehouses, 

 oil and spirit cellars, and other places where the use of a 

 candle is foimd necessary. 



Arthur Woolf, of Wood-street, Spa Fields, in the county 

 of Middlesex, engineer; for certain improvements in steam- 

 engines. 



James Boaz, of the city of Glasgow, in Scotland, civil 

 engineer ; for a new and improved method of raising water, 

 and working machinery by means of steam. 



Alexander Wilson, of Tichborne-street, Piccadilly, in the 

 county of Middlesex, gun-maker ; for certain improve- 

 ments applicable to shot-belts and powder-flasks, and to 

 fire-arms of all descriptions. 



Benjamin Batley, of Queen-street, in the city of London, 

 sugar refiner; for a new and improved method of refining 

 sugars. 



Henry Edward Wlthcrby, of Lslington, in the county of 

 Middlesex, gentleman ; for an apparatus for purifying and 

 improving water and other liquors by filtration. 



Johan Gottlieb Frederic Schmidt, of Greek-street, Soho, 

 in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, and Robert Dick- 

 inson, of Tavistock-street, Covent Garden, gentleman ; for 

 methods of sustaining animal life and combustion for a 

 great length of time, at considerable depths beneath the 

 surface of the ijea, or other bodies of water, in such a inai\- 

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