Obituary. — Mr. Soxferby's Museum. — Patents. 239 



OBITUARY.— Lieut.-Col. Wilford. 

 The community of letters in the East have sustained a great 

 loss by the death of Lieut-Colonel Wilford, who expired of 

 debility at Benares, on the 3d September, 1822. This emi- 

 nent scholar has been long celebrated as a most learned and 

 indefatigable cultivator of the Asiatic History and Literature 

 of the Hindoos. He was one of the earliest members of the 

 Asiatic Society, and soon distinguished himself by his contri- 

 butions to their researches ; his extensive erudition and un- 

 wearied diligence received the highest encomiums fi-om Sir Wil- 

 liam Jones, and secured the favourable notice of Warren Has- 

 tings, by whose encouragement Lieut. Wilford was induced 

 to address his whole attention to those studies to which he 

 perseveringly devoted the rest of his life. 



MR. SOWERBY's museum. 



I^° We feel much satisfaction in announcing that the late 

 Mr. Sowerby's Museum of the natural productions of Great 

 Britain, No. 2, Mead Place, Lambeth, is again opened for 

 the inspection of his friends and the lovers of natural history, 

 every Tuesday, from eleven till four o'clock, under the direc- 

 tion of his sons and executors, James de Carle Sowerby, F.L.S. 

 and Charles Edward Sowerby. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To George Emanuel Harper and Benjamin Baylis, both of Weedon, 

 Northamptonshire, engineers, for their new method of impelling machinery, 

 — Dated the 18th March 1823.— 6 months allowed to enrol specifications. 



To Richard Badnall the younger, of Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufac- 

 turer, for certain improvements in the throwing, twisting or spinning of 

 sowing silks, organzine bergam, and such other descriptions of silk asihe 

 said improvements may be applicable to.— 18th March.— 6 months. 



To Henry Habberly Price, of Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire, engineer, 

 for an apparatus for giving increased effect to paddles used in steam vessels 

 applicable to rotary movement by which they are generally worked. — 18th 

 March. — G months. 



To William Crighton and John Crighton, both of Manchester, Lanca- 

 shire, machine-makers, for their improvement in the construction of cylin- 

 ders used in carding engines and other machines employed in the prepara- 

 tion (for the spinning) of cotton, flax, wool, silk, and mixtures of the said 

 matenals or substances.— 18th March.— 6 months. 



To William Bailey, of High Holborn, Middlesex, ironmonger, and 

 Thomas Home the younger, of Belmont-row, Birmingham, Warwickshire, 

 brass founder, for their improvements in the manufacture of metallic win- 

 dow frames, and other metallic mouldings applicable to the ornamenting 

 of furniture.— 18th March.— fi months. 



ToThomasRogcrs. of Buckingham-street, Strand, esq. for his improve- 

 ment on stays or bodices, which improvement is also applicable to boots. — 

 18th March.— (J months. 



To William Hope, of Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, North Britain, iron- 

 founder, for certain improvements in the construction of printing-presses. 

 — 18th March. — 2 months. METEORO- 



