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List of Patents granted for Scotland from 24th March to 

 22d June 1852. 



1. To Colin Mather, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, machine- 

 maker, and Ernest Rolffs, of Cologne, in the kingdom of Prussia, 

 gentleman, " certain improvements in printing, damping, stiffening, 

 opening, and spreading woven fabrics." — March 24, 1852. 



2. To Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of J. C. Robertson 

 and Company, of 166 Fleet Street, in the city of London, patent-agents, 

 " improvements in presses and in pressing in centrifugal machinery, and 

 in apparatus connected therewith, part or parts of which are applicable to 

 various useful purposes ;" being a communication. — March 24, 1852. 



3. To James Melville, of Roebank Works, Lochwinnoch, in the 

 county of Renfrew, North Britain, calico-printer, " improvements in 

 weaving and printing shawls and other fabrics." — March 29, 1852. 



4. To Alexander Forfar, of Milnathort, in the county of Kinross, 

 Scotland, builder, " improvements in ventilation, and in the prevention 

 of smoky chimneys." — March 29, 1852. 



5. To Joseph Jones, of Bilston, in the county of Stafford, furnace- 

 builder, " certain improvements in furnaces used in the manufacture of 

 iron." — March 29, 1852. 



6. To Sir John Scott Lillie, Companion of the Most Honourable 

 Military Order of the Bath, of Pall Mall, in the county of Middlesex, 

 " certain improvements in the construction or covering of walls, floors, 

 roads, footpaths, and other purposes." — April 2, 1852. 



7. To William Watson Pattinson, of Felling, New House, Gates- 

 head, manufacturing chemist, " improvements in the manufacture of 

 chlorine."— April 2, 1852. 



8. To George Mills, of Southampton, in the county of Hants, engi- 

 neer, " improvements in steam-engine boilers, and in steam-propelling 

 machinery."— April 2, 1852. 



9. To Alexander Hediard, of Rue Tait-Bout, Paris, France, gentle- 

 man, " certain improvements in rotary steam-engines." — April 5, 1852. 



10. To Joseph Pinlott Oates, of Lichfield, in the county of Stafford, 

 surgeon, " certain improvements in machinery for manufacturing bricks, 

 tiles, quarries' drain-pipes, and such other articles as are or may be made 

 of clay, or other plastic substances." — April 6, 1852. 



11. To Sturgis Russell, of No. 8 Bishopsgate Street, in the city of 

 London, merchant, " improvements in weaving looms." — April 8, 1852. 



12. To Richard Archibald Brooman, of the firm of J. C. Robertson 

 and Company, of 166 Fleet Street, in the city of London, patent- 

 agents, " certain improvements in the preparation and treatment of fibrous 

 and membranous materials, both in the raw and manufactured state, in 

 applying electro- chemical action to manufacturing purposes, and in the 



