318 _ Patents.—Astronomy. 
superior strength and durability for bills, or notes, or other uses 
requiring strength.—9th August 1817.—2 months to enroll. 
To Edward Biggs, of Birmingham, for his improvements in 
the methods of making or manufacturing pans and stails of va~ 
rious kinds. —12th August. —2 months. 
To James Bounsall, of Crown-street, Old-street Road, Shore= 
ditch, Middlesex, for certain improvements in the machinery 
used for tarring, reeling, and twisting of yarn, and forming the 
lissims or strands of cables and other cordage, and manufacturs 
ing rope of every size.—-i2th August.—6 months. 
To William Geldart and John Servant, both of Leeds, York- 
shire, for certain improvements in mangles.—1 2thAugust—2 mo. 
To Jephtha Avery Wilkinson, late of New-York in the United 
States of America, but now of Covent Garden, Middlesex, for 
certain improvements in the application of machinery for the 
purpose of manufacturing of weavers’ reeds by water or on 
power.—23d August.—6 months. 
To George Medhurst, of Denmark-street, St. Giles, Ye 
sex, engineer, for an arrangement of implements to form certain 
apparatus which he denormindtes the hydraulic balance, applica- 
ble to mechanical and hydraulic purposes. rane August.—6 
months. —_—_—. 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
Sir,—I take the opportunity of inquiring, through the means 
of your widely-extended Magazine, whether any of your astro- 
nomical correspondents observed the remarkable conjunction of 
Venus with Regulus on the 29th of September last. I find by 
M. Bode’s Ephemeris, that the two stars would, at Berlin, ap- 
pear within twelve seconds of each other: but no notice is taken 
of this singular phenomenon either in the Nautical Almanaek, 
or in the Connaissance des Tems. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
October 27, 1817. -ASTRONOMICUS. 
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