Obituary. — List of Patents. 239 



A Course of Chemical Lectures will be delivered in the 

 season. — Particulars to be had of Mr. Stocker, Apothecary to 

 Guy's Hospital, who enters Pupils to all the above Lectures. 



Obituary. — M. Brequet. 

 The funeral of M. Brequet, the celebrated watchmaker, took 

 place on Sept. 18 th. He was followed by a great number of men 

 celebrated in the sciences and arts, to the cemetry o( Pere le 

 Chaise. There were deputations from the Academy of Sciences, 

 the Bureau de Longitude, the Council-general for Manufactures, 

 and from the Jury to decide on the Exposition of the Pro- 

 ducts of Industry ; of all which M. Brequet was a member. 

 M. C. Dupin, in the name of the Academy, M. Arago in the 

 name of the Bureau, and M. Ternaux in the name of the 

 Council, expressed successively the regret of these bodies. They 

 paid a proper tribute to the talents and virtues of M. Brequet, 

 who reckoned among his friends the persons who were charged 

 to express the universal regret which was produced by the 

 unexpected death of an artist whose vigorous old age seemed 

 to promise a much longer career. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To Benjamin Rotch, of Furnival's Inn, London, esq., for his improved 

 fid for the upper masts oi ships and other vessels. — Dated 21st of August, 

 1823. — 6 months allowed to enrol specifications. 



To James Surrey, of Battersea, Surry, miller, for his method of applying 

 beat for the producing steam and for various other purposes, whereby the 

 expense of fuel will be lessened. — 4th Sept. — 2 months. 



To William Woodman, of York Barracks, veterinary surgeon of the 2d 

 Dragoon Guards, for his improved horse's shoe, which he denominates ihe 

 beviled heeled expanding shoe. — 11th Sept. — 2 months. 



To Bryan Donkin, of Great Surry-street, Surrj', engineer, for his invention 

 on the means or process of destroying or removing the fibres from the 

 thread, whether of flax, cotton, silk, or any other fibrous substance com- 

 posing the fabrics usually termed lace net, or any other denomination of 

 fabric, where holes or interstices are formed by such thread in any of the 

 aforesaid fabrics. — 11th Sept. — 2 months. 



To John Hughes, of Barking, Essex, slopseller, for certain means of se- 

 curing the bodies of the dead in coffins. — 1 1th Sept. — 2 months. 



To Henry Constantine Jetmings, of Devonshire-street, in the parish of 

 St. Mary-le-bone, Middlesex, esq., for an instrument to be affixed to the 

 saddle-tree, by the application and use of which, inconvenience and distress 

 to the iiorse may be avoided. — 11th Sept. — 6 nionths. 



To James Sprigg the elder, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, fender-maker, 

 for a certain improvement in the manufacture of grates, fenders, and fire- 

 iron rests. — llih Sept. — 2 months. 



To Thomas Wickham, of Nottingham, lace-manufacturer, for his im- 

 proved and prepared rice rendered applicable for use in all cases in which 

 starch is applied— 11th Sept. — G months. 



To William Hase, of Saxthorpe, Norfolk, iron-founder, for his new 

 method of constructing mills or machines chiefly applicable to prison disci- 

 pline. — 11th Sept. — 2 months. 



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