Obituary: — John Templetun, Esq. 75 



of springs chiefly applicable to carriages. — 23d of May. — 

 6 months. 



To Louis Joseph Marie Marquis de Combis, a native of 

 France, but now residing in Leicester-square, for an invention 

 of certain improvements, communicated from abroad, in the 

 construction of rotatory steam-engines and apparatus con- 

 nected therewith. — 23d of May. — 6 months. 



To James Barlow Fernandez, of Norfolk-street, Strand, for 

 improvements in the construction of blinds or shades for 

 windows or other purposes. — 26th of May. — 6 months. 



To Robert Mickleham, of Furnival's Inn, London, civil- 

 engineer and architect, for improvements in engines moved by 

 the pressure, elasticity, or expansion of steam, gas, or air ; by 

 which a great saving in fuel will be effected. — 6th of June. — 

 2 months. 



To Henry Richardson Fanshaw, of Addle-street, London, 

 silk-embosser, for an improved winding-machine. — 13th of 

 June. —6 months. 



Obituary. — John Templeton, Esq. A.L.S. &c. 



As neither the decease, nor the scientific labours, we believe, 

 of this gentleman, have yet been recorded in any permanent 

 medium of scientific information, though some months have 

 elapsed since his death, we think our readers will not be dis- 

 pleased with the following neat obituary notice of him, ex- 

 tracted from " The Irishman" Belfast newspaper of Decem- 

 ber 23, 1825. 



" On Thursday, the 15th December, 1825, died John Tem- 

 pleton, Esq., of Cranmore, Malone, near Belfast, aged 60 years 

 — a man of primitive simplicity of character, and eminent sci- 

 entific acquirements. The early part of his life was not much 

 distinguished from that of country gentlemen in general, 

 being addicted to shooting, and other rural occupations ; but 

 for more than thirty years past, his attention had been actively 

 and successfully turned to the study of botany, natural history, 

 geology, and mineralogy. In the first of these branches, and 

 especially in the more abstruse and difficult departments, he 

 attained a rank equal to any botanist in these islands, and pro- 

 bably to any in Europe. He was an able and expert draughts- 

 man, and possessed a singular facility in taking accurate like- 

 nesses of vegetables and animals ; and by a diligent vise of this 

 enviable talent, he has left an immense collection of drawings, 

 many of them of the rarer plants of the country ; and those for 

 elucidating the natural history of Ireland are of unequalled 

 extent and value. The modesty of his nature, and a wish to 

 bring his scientific researches to still further perfection, made 



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