List of Patents for new Inventiom, 395 



An unusual number of water-fowl, particularly vvildgeese, have 

 been obsei-ved earlv in this montli in the marshes near the Thames 

 and about Hackney : a circumstance which is said to denote a 

 hard winter. 



Mr, Edward Forster of Clapton has recently found a variety 

 of the curlew, Scolopax arcuata, of nearly one third more thaii 

 the ordinary magnitude and with some variety in the colour, near 

 Sandwich in Kent. 



LATEST APPEAR AN CK OF SWALLOWS THIS SEASON. 



Hinindo ^pus — August 10. 



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UST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To William Losh, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, iron-founder, and 

 George Stephenson, of Killiiigworth, Northumberland, engineer, 

 for their new method or methods of facilitating the conveyance 

 of carriages and all manner of goods and materials along rail- 

 ways and frameways,bv certain inventions and improvements in the 

 construction of the machine-carriages, carriage-wheels, railvvays, 

 and frameways employed for that purpose. — 30th September, 

 1816. — 2 months. 



To Louis Fauche Borel, of Frith-street, Soho, for his method 

 of making shoes and boots without sewing, so as entirely to keep 

 out the wet, which invention may be applied to other useful pur- 

 poses in leather. — 25th October. — 6 months. 



To Lewis Grauholm, of Foster-lane, London, for his m.ethod 

 or methods, process or processes, or means for rendering or mak- 

 ing articles made or manufactured of hemp or flax, or of hemp 

 or flax mixed, more durable than any such articles are as now 

 made or manufactured. — 25th October. — 2 months. 



To Benjamin Smythe, of Liverpool, schoolmaster, for his new 

 machine, or apparatus, or a new method or methods of propel- 

 ling vessels, boats, barges, and rafts of all kinds, and also other 

 machinery, as mill-wheels and other revolving power. — 1st No- 

 vember. — 2 months. 



To William Varley, of Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds, in the 

 county of York, wire-worker, and Robert Hopwood Furness, of 

 Bri<llington, in the said county, soap-boiler, for their improved 

 method of obtaining or producing saccharic matter or sul)stance 

 from wheat, rye, oats and barley, bear or bigg. — 1st November. 

 — (i months. 



To Joseph Gregson, of Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, for 

 his new metliod of constructing chimneys, and of supplying with 

 feiel. — Ibt November. — 2 mouths. 



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