7§ New Talents. Scientific Books. [July, 



Article XI. 



New Patents. 



Lewis Gompertz, Kennington Oval, Surrey; for sundry im- 

 provements in carriages (and substitutes tor wheels for carriages) 

 and other machines. April 2/, 1814. 



David Grant, Pickett Street, Strand, London ; for a pump 

 or apparatus for drawing off soda water and other liquids impreg- 

 nated with fixed air. April 2/, 1S14. 



John Barnard Logier, Sacville Street, Dublin ; for an ap- 

 paratus for facilitating the acquirement of proper execution on the 

 piano-forte. April 28, 1814. 



Joseph Price, of Gateshead, in the county of Durham, glass- 

 maker; for several new methods of making glass. May 5, 1814. 



John Vancouver Jekenham, Middlesex, Esq.; for a method 

 of painting walls of apartments and other surfaces, by the prepara- 

 tion, use, and application, of certain materials for that purpose. 

 May 17, 1814. 



Thomas Abice Pickering, Hackney Terrace ; for a method 

 for preventing the loss of parcels (containing bank notes, bank post 

 bills, country bankers' or other notes or bills payable to bearer in 

 London or in the country) by coaches, so frequently recurring. 

 May 21, 1814. 



Article XII. 



Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press. 



The Second Volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society 

 will be ready for delivery to the Members early in July. 



Mr. Arthur Aikin, Secretary to the Geological Society, is about to 

 publish a Manual of Mineralogy. 



Dr. J. R. Johnson, of Bristol, F. L. S. &c. intends shortly to pre- 

 pare for Press a Treatise on the Medicinal Leech, to which will be 

 subjoined an engraving illustrative of its interesting and highly sin- 

 gular structure. 



Dr. Jameson, of Cheltenham, will shortly publish a Tract on 

 Cheltenham Waters transferred to Reservoirs, and at the Fountain 

 Head. 



Capt. Flinder's Voyage to Terra Australia will be published in a few 

 days, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty. It will be illustrated 

 by a large Volume of Charts, Head Lands, and Botanical Subjects. 



