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" Fish's nursery or night lamp," and " Fish's tea and coffee boiler 

 and cooking apparatus," the section regard as very ingenious and 

 useful for the purposes for which they are designed, and a success- 

 ful and economical application of the burning of kerosene oil for 

 the purposes of heating and cooking. They therefore recommend 

 that the premium No. 25 be awarded to Mr. Fish for the two appa- 

 ratus above named. 



The section have carefully examined the instruments designed to 

 test the volatility of coal oils and burning fluids. In their opinion 

 the coal oil pyrometer of Mr. Giuseppe Tagliabue is the best that 

 \f as presented to them. They found that this instrument could be 

 easily operated by any person of ordinary intelligence ; that it is 

 durable and not likely to get of order, and can be used readily in 

 exposed situations, and that it will accurately and plainly indicate 

 the relative volatility of different oils and burning fluids. They 

 therefore recommend that a silver medal be awarded to Mr. Giuseppe 

 Tagliabue for his coal oil pyrometer. All which is respectfully 

 submitted. 



The above report was adopted in the section unanimously. 



JOHN B. RICH, CKn and Sec% 

 AUSTIN CHURCH, 

 ENOS STEVENS, 

 DUBOIS D. PARMELEE, 

 January 22, 1863. FRANK DIBBEN. 



