398 ^ew Talents. [Mat, 



for preserving woollen, linen, and other articles, from mildew. 

 March lU, Uil4. 



KoGKR Hasledine, Great Russel-street, London, ironmonger; 

 f )r a cuutiivance for folding-screens, adapted to impede the passage 

 of air, t.muk'', fire, and light, applied to fire-places, grates, stoves, 

 windows, and doors, which he denominates " The improved fold- 

 ing screen." March 12, 1814. 



Edward Stekhs, Inner Temple, London; for a method of 

 rendering the stoppers of bottles, jars, &c. air tight. March 12, 

 1814. 



Jambs Barclay and William Cuming, Cambridge; for 

 improved wheels and asletrees for carriages. March 12, 1S14. 



John Slaikr, Birmingham, manufacturer of coach springs and 

 patent steam kitchens ; for an improvement in a steam boiler, and 

 apparatus for the purpose of washing, steaming, cleaning, and 

 whiietiing cloathes, cloathing, and cloths, and for waj-ming or 

 heating closets, laundries, and other rooms, by the same. MarcU 

 12, 1814. 



Article XIII. 



Scienific Books in hand, or in the Press. 



Mr. Saurey is preparing for publication the Morbid Anatomy of the 

 Brain in Mania and Hydrophobia; with tlie Pathology of the two 

 Diseases, and Experiments to ascertain tlie presence of Water in the 

 Ventricles and Pericardium, collected from papers of the late Di*. 

 Andrew Marshell. 



Mr. Patrick Syme, autlior of a Treatise on the Art of Flower 

 Painting, is about to publish Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with 

 examples selected from objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral 

 Kingdoms. 



Dr. Burnett has in the Press a Practical Account of the Mediterra- 

 nean Fever; also the History of Fever during 1810 to 1813; and of 

 the Gibraltar and Carthagena Fevers. 



I. G. Dalyeil, Esq. has in the Press Observations of some interest- 

 ing Phenomena in Animal Physiology, exhibited by various Species of 

 Planaria;, and illustrated by coloured Figures of living Animals. 



Mr. Wardrop is printing a Second Volume of Essays on the Morbid 

 Anatomy of the Human Eye. 



Mr. Broughton, of Edinburgh, has in the Press a Synthesis and 

 Analysis of tlie First Ten Powers of Numbers, forming the IntroduC' 

 tion to a New Theory of Numbers. 



*^* Early Contmuvications Jlr this Department of our Journdi 

 •will be thankfully received: 



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