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been uninteresting to my readers; but as 1 did not give myself the 

 trouble of inquiring, but hastily concluded that a thing does not 

 exist merely because I was not aware of its existence, he thinks it 

 only necessary to subscribe himself Oxoniensis. 



If this hasty Gentleman will give himself the trouble to peruse 

 again the note in question, he will find that he had no reason 

 whatever to be out of temper on the subject. The note was written 

 in order to procure information; and the expected information jroi 

 procured, if not from him, yet from another Gentleman, fully 

 adequate to the task. A man's character would be in a soriy predi- 

 cament indeed if he. durst not venture to give an opinion, whether 

 right or wrong, merely as an opinion, without any haicard of losing it. 



VI. Mineralogical Teachers. 



Mr. Giesecke has been elected Professor of Mineralogy to the 

 Dublin Society. 



A Mineralogical Lectureship has been lately endowed by the 

 Crown, at Oxford, with a salary of 100/. a year. Mr. Buckland, 

 of Corpus is appointed to the lecturesiiip. 



Article XI. 



•List of Patents, 



William Summers, the younger. New Bond-street, iron- 

 monger ; for a method of raising hot water from a lower to aii 

 npper level, for baths, manufactories, and other useful purposes. 

 Nov. 1, 1813. 



Joseph C. Dyeb, Gloucester- place, Camden Town; for a 

 method of spinning hemp, flax, grasses, or any substance having 

 considerable length of fibre : communicated to hiin by a foreigner 

 residing abroad. Nov. 1, 1813. 



Thomas Rogers, T)ublin; for new flour for bread, pastry, and 

 other purposes. Nov. 1, 1813. 



Samuel James, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, surgeon j for a sofa 

 for the ease of invalids and others. Nov. 1, 1813. 



John Ruth VEN, Edinburgh, printer; for a machine, or press, 

 for printing from types, blocks, or other surfaces. Nov. 1, 1813. 



John Baiiton, Tufton-street, Westminster, engineer ; for 

 various improvements in the construction and application of steam- 

 engines. Nov. 1, 1813. 



Benjamin Sanders, Granby-place, Surrey, button manufac- 

 turer ; for an improved method of manufacturing buttons, Nov. 4, 

 1813. 



