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John Vallance, jun. Brighthelmstone ; for an apparatus for 

 certainly cooling brewers', vinegar makers', and distillers' worts, 

 wash. &c. Feia. 8, 1814. 



Timothy Harris, Foley-place, Portland Chapel, London; for 

 a machine or machines for ploughing or laying on colours called 

 gi'ounds, printing, flocking, and pressing, so as to produce an even 

 smooth face upon pnper, silk, linen, woollen, leather, cotton, and 

 various other articles. Feb. 8, 1814. 



John Kershaw, Glossop-dale, Derbyshire, cotton-spinner, and 

 John Wood, of the same place. Gentleman ; for a mode of pre- 

 paring flax for the purpose of being spun on the like machinery as 

 cotton. Feb, 10, 1814. 



Joseph Bramah, Pimlico, Middlesex ; for a mode of applying 

 a certain species of earth, which will prove useful, and be found 

 productive of great public benefit, in as much as it will when ap- 

 plied prevent, destroy, and finally extirpate what is called the dry or 

 fungus rot, and will serve as a substitute for lead iu making of oil 

 paints, and also for various other useful purposes. Feb. 10, 1814. 



Richard Price, Bristol, ironmonger; for an Improved cooking 

 apparatus. Feb. 12, 1814. 



William Francis Hamilton, Asylum -buildings, London, 

 engineer ; for certain improvements in optical instruments and 

 apparatus. Feb. 12, 1814. 



John BuDDLE, Wallsend, Northumberland, Gentleman; for a 

 fire-pan or fire-lamps, in which small or inferior coals may be con- 

 sumed in the place of large or round coals; and that he hath also 

 found out and invented a fire-grate or fire-stove to be fixed at the 

 bottom of the chimney in the ordinary mode, in which fire-grate or 

 fire-stove small or inferior coals may be consumed on all occasions, 

 and for all the same purposes as larger or round coals. Feb. 21, 

 1814. 



Article XV. 



Scienijlc Books in hand, or in the Press. 



Dr. Benj. Heyne's work, entitled " Tracts Historical and Statistical 

 on India," will be ready for publication early in April. The subjects 

 are miscellaneous: but there is much information that will be interesting 

 to the Chemist and the Geologist. 



A new Volume of the Transactions of the V\'ernerian Natural His- 

 tory Society is on the eve of publication. 



Dr. Badham has in the Press an Essay on the Diseases of the Chest 

 vhich have their seat in the iSIucus Pvlembrane, Larynx, or Bronchiae. 



Mr. S. Banks will speedily publish a Treatise on Diseases of the 

 Liver, and Disorders of the Digesti\'e Functions; including admonitory 

 Suggestions to Persons arriving from Warm Climates. 



