374 Lectures. — Patents, 



London Hospital. — Dr. Buxton's Lectures on the Theory 

 and Practice of Medicine, and on Materia Medica, will be 

 commenced about the 20th of January, 1 800. For parti- 

 culars apply to Mr. Price, apothecary, at the Hospital, or 

 to Dr. Buxton, Fenchurch-Street. 



Tt is with extreme regret that we announce the death of 

 Dr. Beddoes. He died at Hotwells, Bristol, on Saturday 

 the 24th of December. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To Edward Thomason, of Birmingham, in the county of 

 Warwick, manufacturer, for his various improvements in 

 the construction of umbrellas and parasols. Oct. 8, 1808. 



To Richard Trevithick, of Rotherhithe, in the county of 

 Surrey, engineer, and Robert Dickinson, of Great Queen- 

 Street, in the county of Middlesex, esq., for their new me- 

 thod or way of stowing cargoes of ships and other vessels, 

 by means of packages, for containing goods and products of 

 certain descriptions, destined for conveyances by sea, not 

 hitherto employed, by which means expenses of stowage 

 room will be saved, and the contents be rendered more se- 

 cure from damage. October 31. 



To Henry Van Wart, of Liverpool, in the county pala- 

 tine of Lancaster, merchant, that, in consequence of a com- 

 munication made to him by Isaiah Jennings, a citizen of 

 the United States of America, he is in possession of a method 

 of making a machine for manufacturing thimbles for the 

 sails of ships and vessels, and for all sorts of rigging and 

 other purposes. October 31. 



To Joseph Anthony Berrollas, of Denmark-Street, in the 

 parish of Saint Gdes in the Fields, in the county of Mid- 

 dlesex, waich -maker, for his new-invented method of making 

 infallible icpeating watches. October 31. 



To Zachariah Barratt, of Croydon, in the county of Sur- 

 rey, gent., for his new invented machine for washing linen 

 and cotton clothes, and other similar things, to which may 

 be affixed or omitted at pleasure a contrivance for pressing 

 the water from them, now done by wringing. Oct. 31. 



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