List ofNexa Patents. 79 



July 14. — The vigil of St. Swithin was announced by the 

 most tremendous storms of thunder and lightning ever re- 

 membered by the oldest inhabitant of this village. Weather 

 hot and close. 



July 15. — St. Swithin. The aestival period begins. Rain 

 early in the day. Lilium carididum began to flower ; also the 

 white Papaver somniferum, Sonchus cceruleus /3 (a variety in- 

 troduced by T. F. Forster, Esq.) in full blow. Weather warm. 

 Agrostemma coronaria plentiful. Scabiosa atropurpurea be- 

 gins to flower. 



July 16. — Campanula rapunculoides and Inula Helenium in 

 flower. 



This year presents a very bad show of apples. Pears are 

 more numerous. Strawberries, cherries and raspberries al- 

 ready very abundant. 



Hartwell, July 19, 1824. T. FoRSTER. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To John Hobbins, of Walsall, Staffordshire, ironmonger, for his improve- 

 ments in gas apparatus.— Dated 22d June 1824. — 2 months allowed to en- 

 rol specification. 



To Humphry Austin, of Alderley Mills, Gloucestershire, manufacturer, 

 for certain improvements on shearing machines.— 22d June.— 6 months. 



To John Beuton Higgon, of Gravel-lane, Houndsditch, Middlesex, gen- 

 tleman, for his improvement or addition to carving-knives and other edged 

 tools.— 22d June. — 2 months. 



To William Busk, of Broad-street, in the city of London, merchant, for 

 certain improvements in the means or method of propelling ships, boats, or 

 other floating bodies. — 29th June. — 6 months. 



To William Pontifex the younger, of Shoe-lane, London, coppersmith 

 and engineer, for his improved modes of adjusting or equalizing the pres- 

 sure of fluids or liquids in pipes or tubes, and also an improved mode of 

 measuring the said fluids or liquids. — 1st July. — 6 months. 



To John Leigh Bradbury, of Manchester, Lancashire, for his mode of 

 twisting, spinning, or throwing silk, cotton, wool, lmen or other threads or 

 fibrous substances. — 3d July.— 2 months. 



To Philip Taylor, of the City Road, Middlesex, engineer, for certain 

 improvements on steam-engines. — .3d July. — 6 months. 



To John Lane Higgins, of Oxford-street, Middlesex, esquire, for certain 

 improvements in the construction of the masts, yards, sails, and rigging of 

 ships and smaller vessels, and in the tackle used for working or navigating 

 the same. — 7th July. — G months. 



To William Hirst and John Wood, both of Leeds, Yorkshire, manu- 

 facturers, for certain improvements in machinery for raising or dressing of 

 cloth. — 7th July. —6 months. 



To Joseph Clisild Daniell, of Stoke, Wiltshire, clothier, for his improved 

 method of weaving woollen cloth. - 7th July. — 2 months. 



To Charles Phillips, of Repnor, in the parish of Frendsbury, Kent, 

 esquire, for certain improvements on tillers and steering wheels of vessels 

 of various denominations. — 13th July. — 6 months. 



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