76 Patents. — Meteorological Register at IVtck. 



To James Falconer Atlee, of Marchwood, county of Soiitliiunpton, for a 

 process by which planks and other scantlings of wood w ill be prevented from 

 shrinking, and will be altered and materially improved in their durability, 

 closeness of grain, and power of resisting moisture, so as to render the same 

 better adapted for ship-building and other building purposes, for furniture 

 apd other purposes where close or compact wood is desirable; insomuch that 

 the wood so prepared will become a new article of commerce and manu- 

 facture, which he intends calling " condensed wood." — 1 1 th Jan. — 6 months. 



To George Sayner, of Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds, Yorkshire, dyer, 

 and John Greenwood, of Gonicrsall, in the said county, machine-maker, 

 for improvements in the mode of sawing wood by machinery.— 11th Janu- 

 ary. — 6 months 



To Thomas Magrath, of Dublin, for his composition to preserve animal 

 and vegetable substances. — 11th Januarj*. — 6 months. 



To Thomas Magrath, of Dublin, for his improved apparatus for conducting 

 and containing water and other fluids, and preserving the same from the 

 effects of fi-ost.— 11th January. — 6 months. 



To John Phipps, of Upper Thames-street, stationer, and Christopher 

 Phipps, of River, Kent, paper-maker, for improvements in machinery for 

 making paper.— 11th January. — 6 months. 



To William Shelton Burnet, of London-street, London, for a new 

 method of lessening the drift of ships at sea and protecting them in gales 

 of wind. — 1 1 th January. — G months. 



To Jonathan Andrew, Gilbert Tarlton, and Joseph Shepley, of Crumps- 

 hall, near Manchester, cotton-spinners, for improvements in the machme 

 used for throstle and water spinning of thread or jam, which improved ma- 

 chine is so constructed as to perform the operations of sizing and twisting in 

 or otherwise removing the superfluous fibres, and of preparing a roving for 

 the same.— 11th January. — 6 months. 



To John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, lace-manufacturer, for improvements 

 in machinery for making bobbin-net.— 12th January. — 6 months. 



To William Booth and Michael Bailey, of Congleton, Cheshire, ma- 

 chinists, for improvements in spinning, doubling, throwing, and twisting silk, 

 wool, cotton, flax, &c. — 13th January.— 6 months. 



To Joseph Lockett, of Manchester, engraver to calico-printers and 

 copper-roller mv\nufacturer, for improvements in producing a neb or slob 

 in the shell or cylinder, made of copper or other metal, used in the print- 

 ing of calico, &c. — 14th January.— 2 months. 



To William Rudder, of Egbaston, near Birmingham, cock-founder, for 

 certain improvements in cocks. — 18th January. — 6 months. 



To William Church, of Birmingham, for improvements in casting cy- 

 linders, tubes, and other articles of iron and other metals.— 18th January. 

 —6 months. — 



METEOROLOGICAL nEGISTER AT WICK. 



To the Editws of the Philosophical Magazine andjournal. 

 Gentlemen, 



As you have announced to the pubHc that the Meteorologi- 

 cal Register kept at Wick, and published in the last Number 

 of your valuable Magazine, came from me, it is but right that 

 I should name its author — Kenneth MacLeay, Esq. of New- 

 more, who has for some years past been sedulously occupied 

 in studying meteorology at the northern extremity of our 

 island. I am, &c. W. S. MacLeay. 



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