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to the nearest integer the cube root of any 

 number not exceeding two thousand millions. 

 First inventor (1835) of rotatory printing, the 

 method which, with slight changes of detail, 

 is still in use for newspapers. Rewarded by 

 three separate grants, viz., in 1846 by a public 

 testimonial of the value of 13,360/., in 1864 

 by the award from the Treasury of his full 

 salary of 2,00 Ol. a year on his retirement, and 

 in the same year by a parliamentary grant 

 of 20,000?. (2) Matthew Davenport Hill, Q.C., 

 late recorder of Birmingham ; law reformer of 

 note, especially in reference to dealings with 

 the criminal class, substituting promptitude, 

 certainty and strictness for delay, uncertainty 

 and severity (see Law Magazine, July 1872) ; 

 (3) Edwin Hill, superintendent of the stamp 

 department ; first inventor of the envelope 

 folding-machine, since improved by Mr. De la 

 Rue. He completely remodelled the stamping 

 machinery at Somerset House ; was most highly 

 commended for these improvements in each 

 of the first three reports of the commissioners 

 of Inland Revenue, and again by a minute on 



