158 New Patents. [Feb. 



Article XV. 



List of Patents. 



Isaac Wilson, Eath, Gentleman; for certain improvements 

 upon stove grates, to prevent smoky rooms, and for obtaining an 

 increased heat from the same quantity of fueh Nov. 29, 1S13. 



Maurice DE JoucH, Kentish Town, Middlesex; for a method 

 of preparing madder roots and madder. Nov. •2'3, 1S13. 



Johx.Cragg, Esq. Liverpool; for certain improvements in the 

 facing of exterior and interior walls of Gothic or other structures, 

 built of brick or other material, with strong milled or sawn slates, 

 bound and secured by mouldings, grooves, and tyes of cast-iron, 

 in such a manner as to have the appearance, when sanded, of finely 

 wrought stone-work in ornamental pannels, or otherwise ; with 

 ceilings of correspondent tracery, form, and character, of the same 

 materials, wliich may be supported by pointed arches, rising from 

 single or clustered columns of cast-iron or otherwise; and in 

 capping buttresses in Gothic architecture with highly enriched 

 pinnacles of cast-iron only, the which being connected by metal, 

 with the sp'.Hits also of metal, and carried down to the ground, 

 form conductors for the protection of lofty buildings from the effect 

 of lightning ; also for a spiral stain (vvholjy of cast-iron) of a light 

 and simple construction, which may be carried up or inserted 

 within the corner of a buttressed tower, or wall, or in the cylinder 

 of a small turret ; by which mode of facing, adorning, and con- 

 structing, the said several parts, churches, or other buildings, of 

 pure Gothic design, may be erected of brick, and finished with 

 light ornamental carved work, of appropriate taste and elegance, at 

 less expense than if wrought on stone, and in materials that will 

 endure. Nov. 29, 1813. ' 



Samukl Tyrrel, Peddinghoe, Sussex, farmer ; for a broad- 

 east sowing machine. Dec. 4, 1813. 



Article XVI. 



Sdentific Books in hand, or in the Press. 



Mr. Robertson Buchanan, autlior of Essays on the Economy of Fuel, 

 has in the Press a Practical Treatise on Mill-work and other Machinery. 



Mr. J. Bankes has in the Press a Treatise on the Diseases of the 

 Liver, and Disorders of the Digestive Functions, with admonitory 

 Hints to Persons arriving from Warm Climates. 



Dr. Bc!ijamin tieyne, who has resided maay years in India, in the 

 confidential service of tlie East India Compan}', is about to publish 

 in onevolunie, 4to. Tracts Hi.'itorical and Political relative to the Car- 

 natic, with a Voyage to Sumatra, &c. 



