158 Led ures . — Patents . 



opportunity to strew some rice over the roof of his adversary's 

 house. The monkeys soon discover this treasure, and resort in 

 crowds to pick it up : wlien finding that much of it has falleii 

 between the tiles (which are not nailed down as with us), they 

 make no scruple to remove them, and nearly unroof the house. 

 When workmen cannot be procured to repair the roof, the rajn 

 i« admitted, and ruins the furniture and the stock of grain. 



Apothccarifs'IJall, Feb. 20, 1815. 

 The Society of Apothecaries having completed several new 

 arrangements in their laboratories, in which steam is em|)loyed 

 for the purposes of evaporation, distillation, &c. such pro- 

 fessional gentlemen as are desirous of viewing these improvements 

 are informed, that they will be open for their inspection on the 

 second Tuesday in March, April, May, and June, between the 

 Ijours of two and three o'clock in the afternoon, 



LECTTTRE. 



Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, F.L.S. will commence his Spring Course 

 of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology, on Friday the lOth of 

 March, at Half past Eight o'clock in the Evening precisely, at 

 his House, No. 3, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, where Particulars 

 may be obtained. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To James Collier, of Grosvenor Street, West Pimlico, Middle- 

 sex, who in consequence of a communication made to him by the 

 late Joseph Montgofre, a foreigner, hath become possessed of 

 the method of making a machine or instrument intended to be 

 denominated a " Creopyrite," by means of which power will be 

 very oeconomically obtained, and advantageously applied to the 

 raisiug of water, and other useful purposes. — 16th Jan. 1815. 

 — 6 months. 



To Jean Frederick Marquis de Chabanus, of Thayer Street, 

 Manchester Sq., for his method of extracting from fuel a greater 

 quantity of caloric than hath hitherto been acquired, and ap- 

 plying it to the purpose of warming the room in wiiich the 

 operation is conducted, and also other rooms, by one single fire. 

 16th Jan. — 6 months, 



ToJeanRondoni,of OxfordStreet,Middlesex,gent.who in con- 

 sequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner, 

 is in possession of certain improvements in the construction oi' 

 dioptric telescopes. — 20th Jan. — 6 months. 



To John Carpenter, of Truro, Cornwall, for a knapsack which 

 prevents the wet coming between it and the back, and a pouch 

 suspended from the shoulder-straps of said knapsack so as to 

 counteract its weight.— 20th Jan. — 6 months. 



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