414 New Scientific Books. [May, 
James NEVILLE, of Wellington-street, Northampton-square, | 
London, gentleman ; for new and improved methods of generating 
and creating or applying power, by means of steam or other fluids, 
elastic or non-elastic, for driving or working all kinds of machinery 
(including the steam-engines now in use), and which are appli- 
cable also to the condensing of steam, and other aqueous vapours, 
in distillation or evaporation, and are useful in various manufac- 
tories and operations where heat is employed as an agent, or where 
the saving of fuel is desirable. Aug. 14, 1816. 
Epwarp Bices, of Birmingham, brass-founder; for improve- 
ments in or on the machinery used in the making or manufacturing 
of pans and sfails of various kinds. Aug. 14, 1816. 
Wixuram Mou tt, of Bedford-square, London; for improve- 
ments on his former patent for an improved method of acting upon 
machinery, bearing date May 23, 1814. Aug. 14, 1816. 
Jean SamvuxEc Pau y, of Brompton, engineer ; for a machine 
for making of nails, screws, and the working all metallic substances. 
Aug. 15, 1816. 
Rogert Satmon, of Wooburn, surveyor ; for improved instru- 
ments for complaints in the urethra and bladder. Aug. 19, 1816. 
ARTICLE XV. 
Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press. 
Mr. Merrick has nearly ready for the press a Translation of Thenard’s 
Treatise (1816) on the general Principles of Chemical Analysis, in one 
volume, 8vo. 
Mr, Parkinson, of Hoxton, intends publishing, in the course of the 
month, an Essay on the Shaking Palsy. 
Mr. William Phillips, author of the Outlines of Mineralogy and 
Geology, &c. will publish this month, in 12mo., Eight Familiar Lec- 
tures on Astronomy, delivered at Tottenham last winter to a numerous 
audience of young persons. It will contain the requisite diagrams and 
illustrations: and being intended for the initiation of the young, and 
for those who are unacquainted with the science, its numerous terms 
are as much as possible avoided, and such as cannot be avoided are 
fully explained in these lectures. 
Dr. Wilson Philip is about to publish an Experimental Inquiry into 
the Laws of the Vital Functions, with some Observations on the Na- 
ture and Treatment of Internal Diseases. 
Mr. Parkes has just published Thoughts on the Salt Laws, in which 
he presses on the attention of the Legislature the advantages which 
would be derived from a total repeal of the duties on that article. 
Mr. Thomas Purton, of Alcester, is about to publish a Midland 
Flora, which will comprise descriptions of plants indigenous to the 
central counties of England : it will be illustrated by plates engraved 
by Mr. James Sowerby. [N.B. Jn the Annals for last month the work 
itself was erroncously stated to be by Mr, J. S.] 
