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method of making iron rails to be used in the construction of 
rail-ways.-—5dth August.—2 months. 
To Ludvid Granholm, of Foster-lane, in the city of London, 
captain in the Royal Navy of Sweden, for his new or improved 
method or methods, process or processes, mean or means, of 
preserving such animal and vegetable products or substances se- 
parately or mixed together, as are fit for the food of man, for such 
a length of time as to render them fit for ship and garrison stores. 
—5th August.—6 months. 
To Anthony Hill, of Plymouth Iron-works, for improvements 
in the working of iron.—5th August.—6 months. 
To John Dickinson, of Nash Mill in the parish of Abbott’s 
Langley, Hertfordshire, for his method of manufacturing by means 
of machinery, paper for copper-plate printing ; also paper for 
writing, drawing, letter-press printing, and of a thicker sort for 
boards, and similar in texture and substance to eard-boards or 
paste-hoards ; and certain improvements in his patent machinery 
for manuafacturing and cutting paper.—5th August.—6 months. 
To Dennis MacCarthy, of Little Compton-street, St. Aun’s, 
Soho, Middlesex, for certain improvements on ploughs of various 
descriptions.—5th August.—6 months. 
“BRUSSELS PRIZE QUESTION. 
The last branch of the second prize question of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences of Brussels, given p. 380, vol. xlix. has been 
since amended; and instead of the way in which it is there stated, 
now runs thus: “In case of no decision, as to the greater pro- 
bability, which of the two methods of investigating its nature is 
best calculated to simplify the theory of chemical facts?” 
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