238 The Comet. — Lectures. — Patents. — Death of Mr. Wait. 



THE COMET. 



A late conjecture that on the 26th of June the earth was in the 

 direction of the tail of the comet now visible, is fully confirmed, 

 since the orbit has become better known. The sun, the comet, 

 and the earth, were on the 18th of June in the morning so nearly 

 in a right line, that the comet was to be seen on the sun's disk. 

 According to calculation, the nucleus of the comet entered the 

 sun's southern limb at 5'^ 22™ A.M. true time at Bremen. It 

 was nearest to the centre of the sun V 21" west, about 1^ 13", 

 and issued from the sun's northern limb about 9'' 22"". The 

 comet during this most remarkable transit was something more 

 than seven millions of German miles distant from the sun, and 

 about fourteen millions of miles from the earth. 



Bremen, July 28, IS 19. W. OlbERS. 



LECTURES. 



The Courses of Lectures of the St. George's Hanover-Square, 

 on Physic, Chemistry, and Surgery, will commence on Monday, 

 October 4th, 1819. 



The Medical Lectures, by George Pearson, M.D. F.R.S.&c. 



The Chemical, by W. T. Brande, Esq. Professor to the Roydl 

 Institution, and Secretary of the Royal Society. 



The Surgical, by B. C. Brodie, Assistant Surgeon to St. 

 George's Hospital. 



The gratuitous Lectures of Sir Everard Home as usual, to the 

 Pupils of St. George's Hospital. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To James Head, of Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, esq. 

 for a machine or instrument for ascertaining the difference of ships' 

 draught of water forward and aft at sea or in harbour. — 27th of 

 July 1819. 



To Henry Tritton, of Clapham, for an improved apparatus for 

 filtration. — 11th of August. 



To Charles Phillips, of Haverford West, commander in the 

 Royal Navy, for certain improvements on capstans. — 20th Sept. 



To William Brockedon, of Poland-street, for certain improve- 

 ments in wire-drawing. — 20th Sept. 



The celebrated Mr. Watt of Birmingham died at his house at 

 Heathfield, on Wednesday the 15th of September. Mr. Watt was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1784; of the 

 Royal Society of London in 1785; and a Member of the Bata- 

 vian Society in 1787; in 1806 the honorary degree of Doctor of 

 Laws was conferred upon him by the spontaneous and unanimous 

 vote of the Senate of the University of Glasgow; and in 1808 he 

 was elected a Member of the National Institute of France. 



