318 Grecian Universily. — Patents. 



are covered with a peculiar varnish which increases the difficulty 

 of unrolling them, and which the Greek MSS. liavenot. 



GRECIAN UNIVERSITY. 



A university has been established at Corfu, by Lord Guildford, 

 under the direction and anspicesof the British Government. His 

 Lordship has appointed to the different chairs, Greeks of the 

 first abilities ; and his intentions have been seconded witli much 

 effect by Count Capo-d'Istria, a native of Corfu, who being ap- 

 prized that M.Politi, a young Leucadian possessed of knowledge 

 and talents, desired to profess chemistry in the Ionian islands, 

 remitted to him funds sufficient to procure the apparatus neces- 

 sary for the laboratorv, i3:c. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To John Thompson, manufacturer of iron and coal miner, for 

 a new method of extracting iron from ore. — 20th Sept. IS 19. 



To Baron Charles Philip de Thierry, of Bath-Hampton in the 

 county of Somerset, for a bitt for coach and bridle, called The 

 humane safety-bitt. — 20th Sept. 



To John Baynes, of Leeds, cutler, for certain machinery to be 

 attached to carriages for giving tlieni motion by manual labour, 

 or other suitable power. — 27th Sept. 



To William Bainbridge, of Holborn, musician, for certain im- 

 provements in the double and single flageolet or English flute. — 

 4th Oct. 



To Jacob Perkins, late of Philadelphia, now of Austin Friars, en- 

 gineer, for certain machinervand improvements applicable toorna- 

 inental turning and engraving, and to the transferring of engraved 

 or other work from the surface of one piece of metal to another 

 piece of metal, and to the forming of metallic dies and matrices, 

 and also improvements in the construction and method for using 

 plates and presses for printing bank notes and other papers, 

 whereby the ])roducing and combining various species of work is 

 effected upon the same plates and surfaces, the difficulty of imita- 

 tion increased, and the process of printing facilitated; and also au 

 improved method of making and using dies and presses for coining 

 monev, stamping medals, and other useful purposes. — 1 1th 

 Oct. ■ 



To Christopher Hilton, of Darwen, near Blackburn, Lanca- 

 shire, bleacher, for his process for the ))urpose of improving and 

 finishing manufactured piece goods. — 18th Oct. 



To Anthony Radford Strutt, of Makeney, Derbyshire, cotton 

 spiuner, for certain improvements in the construction of locks 

 and latches. — ISth Oct. 



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