46$ Medical Blank Labels. — Patents. 



of provisons and water. During^ his voyage, which at first was 

 directed to the North, Lieut. Kotzehue reached a very high lati- 

 tude, but we are not yet able to state it with accuracy. He fell 

 in with a most singular iceberg, of great magnitude, which not 

 onlv had a portion of its surface covered with earth and mould, 

 and bearing trees and vegetable productions, but a portion of its 

 wafer line covered with a shore formed by the deposit of earthy 

 matter washed down from the higher parts of the earth-covered 

 icebera;. On this shore a landing was made, and considerable 

 quantities of remains of the mammoth were found in such a state 

 of putrefaction as to produce a most insupportable stench. The 

 Rusick brought av/ay a number of the tusks and other parts of 

 these immense animals, which had probably been preserved in a 

 frozen state for many ages, till the mass of ice which inclosed 

 them, put in motion by some unknown cause, reached a more 

 temperate latitude. 



MEDICAL BLANK LABELS MADE BY MACHINERY. 



A gentleman has invented a perfectly novel apparatus for 

 making the labels used by apothecaries and chemists in a neat 

 ornamental manner by machinery. These labels are known by 

 a small raised or embossed line surrounding them, and taking a 

 fanciful turn at the broader extremity ; also by the accurate and 

 uniform angle in which they are folded, and by the peculiarly 

 good quality of the paper. On being opened they will be found 

 tapering — not straight, like those made by the apothecaries, 

 being cut one out of the other, which effects a great saving of 

 paper. The two sizes are well apportioned for the services re- 

 quired, and upon the whole, they are considerably cheaper than 

 persons requiring the article, however small the quantity, can 

 make them for themselves. To the medical man, therefore, of 

 extensive practice these labels must be very useful } for in a bu- 

 siness where every leisure moment may be turned to profit, any 

 one must be glad to relieve himself from an occupation so trifling, 

 and at best so unsatisfactory, as that of making his own labels, 

 when he can get them cheaper and better without any trouble 

 at all. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To John Dyson, of Watford, in the county of Hertford, for 

 certain apparatus for the culture and tillage of land. — 26th May. 

 — 2 months. 



To Charles Greenway, of Manchester, for his improvement in 

 the operation of opening raw cotton or cotton-wool, previous to 

 the carding and spinning the same, and by which improvements 

 such operation will be fabricated.— 2Gth May, — 2 months. 



To 



