90 
Agricultural Patents for the year 1863. 
2082. Joseph Daniels, of Leigh, Lancashire, Improvements in artificial 
manure. Application dated 22nd July ; provisional protection, 1st 
August ; notice, 25th November, 1862 ; patent sealed, 13th January, 
1863. 
953. T. Bell Fletcher, M.D., of Birmingham, Improvements in apparatus for 
collecting the solid portions of sewage. Application dated 15th 
April ; notice, 18th August ; patent sealed, 2nd October, 1863. 
132. John Harrop, of Manchester, analytical chemist, Improvements in the 
treatment of organic fecal and urinous matters for the purpose of 
deodorising the same, and in the preparation of a portable manure 
therefrom, and in the treatment of ashes or other refuse of combustion 
to be combined therewith, also for improvements in machinery to be 
employed in the manufacture of the said manure. Application dated 
15th January ; provisional protection, 6th February ; notice, 17th 
March ; patent sealed, 10th July, 1863. 
321. J. A. Manning, of the Inner Temple, London, Improvements in the 
treatment of night-soil and other waste products, and for the manu- 
facture of manure therefrom. Application dated 4th February ; 
provisional protection, 20th February ; patent sealed, 14th July, 
1863. 
1435. Henry Martin, of Surrey-square, Old Kent-road, land agent, Im- 
provements in treating and preparing night-soil and sewage with other 
materials as a manure. Application dated 9th J une ; provisional 
protection, 3rd July, 1863. 
3264. John Maynes, of Manchester, engineer, Improvements in the manu- 
facture of certain descriptions of artificial manure, and in apparatus 
to be employed tlierein. Application dated 24th December, 1863. 
606. Thomas Henry Morrell, of Leyland, Lancashire, gentleman, and 
Joseph Williamson, of Willcross, Gisburn, Yorkshire, gentleman, 
Improvements in the purifying of the noxious vapours or gases given 
°.ff from night-soil or other similar substances during the heating, 
drying, or evaporating of such substances. Application dated 4th 
March ; provisional protection, 20th March ; notice, 24th March ; 
patent sealed, 29th August, 1863. 
*3361. J. L. W. Thudichum, M.D., of Kensington, Middlesex, Improvements 
in collecting human excreta, and in the apparatus and means em- 
ployed therein. Application dated 16th December ; provisional pro- 
tection, 26th December, 1862 ; notice, 28th April, 1863. 
2724. Guillaume Ville, of Paris, Professor at the Museum of Natural His- 
tory, Improvements in treating natural phosphates of lime for agri- 
cultural purposes. Application dated 4th November ; provisional 
protection, 20th November, 1863. 
*3132. Thomas Walker, of Birmingham, engineer, Improvements in utilizing 
sewage matters, and in the means or apparatus employed therein, 
part of which improvements is also applicable to raising and forcing 
other fluids. Application dated 21st November, 1862; notice, 17th 
March, 1863. 
3152. John Wright, of Marple, near Stockport, Cheshire, Improvements in 
the manufacture of superphosphate of lime. Application dated 14th 
December, 1863. 
CONDIMENTAL FOOD. 
2050. Alexander Cruickshank, of Glen Park, Lanarkshire', N. B., gentleman, 
Improvements in the manufacture or production of food for cattle and 
