1802.] 
Brocks. For the best engraving on wood, or 
metal blocks, of a subject or allegorical decora- 
tion for a volume of the Society’s Transactions, 
proper tc be prefixed to the premiums offered by 
the Society, and capable of being worked with 
the letter press ; the gold medal. The engraved 
wood or metal block, and two or more impres- 
signs from it, to be produced to the Society on or 
before the second Tuesday in February, 1803, 
and the engraved wood or metal block to which 
the premium is adjudged to remain the property 
of the Society. The engraving to be of a proper 
size to form an octavo page in the volume. 
124. For the next in merit; the silver medal 
on similar conditions, 
1295. StaTuary MARBLE. To the per- 
son who shall discover, within Great Britain or 
Ireland, a quarry of white marble fit for the 
purposes of statuary, and equal in all) respects 
to those kinds now imported from Italy; the 
gold medal, or one hundred pounds. <A block 
of at least three feet in length, two in height, 
and two in width, with an account of the si- 
tuation of the quarry, and certificates of its pos- 
sessing considerable extent, to be produced to 
the Society on or before the first Tuesday in 
February, 1803. 
N. B. In order to prevent useless expence 
or trouble to the claimant in forwarding so 
large a block, the Society will be ready to exa- 
mine any smaller specimen of the marble, and 
express their opinion of its value to the cancai- 
date before the block required by the above 
premium Is produced, : 
126. Bronzes. For the best drapery-fi- 
gure or group castin bronze; if a single figure, 
not less than twelve inches high; and, if a 
group, not less than nine inches; and which 
will require the least additional labour to repair; 
the gold medal, or the silver medal and twenty 
guineas. The cast to be exhibited to the So- 
ciety before it is begun to be repaired, with the 
original figure’or group, on or before the first 
Tuesday in February, 1302, together with a 
full explanation of the whole process. 
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PREMIUMS FOR EXCOURAGING AND 
IMPROVING MANUFACTURES. 
(127, MacHINE FoR CARDING SILK, For 
the best machine, superior to any now in use, 
for carding waste silk equally well as by hand; 
to be produced, together with a specimen of the 
cardings, on or before the first Tuesday in No- 
vember, 1802; the silver medal, or twenty 
guineas, 
128. CLotu From Hop-STA ks, &c. To 
the person who shall produce to the Society 
the greatest quantity, not less than thirty yards 
of cloth at least twenty-seven inches wide, 
made in Great Britain, of hop-stalks or bines, 
or other raw vegetable substances, the produce 
of Great Britain or Ireland, superior to any hi- 
therto manufactured from such substances, and 
Premiums in Manufactures. 
581 
which can be generally afforded as cheap as 
cloth of equal quality and appearance now 
made from hemp, flax, or cotton, and much 
finer in quality than any hitherto manufactured 
in England from hop-stalks, &c. the gold medal, 
or thirty guineas. One pound of the thread 
of which the cloth is made, and thirty yards of 
the cloth, together with proper certificates that 
the whole is manufactured from hop-stalks or 
bines, &c. to be produced to the Society on or 
before the first Tuesday in December, 1802. 
N. B. The Society is already in the posses= 
sion of cloth made in England from hup-stalks 
or binesywhich may be inspected by application 
to the housekeeper. 
129. Wicks For CanpDLES or Lamps, 
To the person who shall discover to the Society 
a method of manufacturing hop-stalks or bines, 
or any other cheap material, the growth of Great 
Britain, so as to render them equally fit for the 
purpose of supplying the place of cotton, for 
wicks of candles or lamps; twenty guineas. 
Samples, not less than five pounds weight, of 
the wicks so prepared to be produced to the So- 
ciety, with certificates that the whole quantity is 
equal in quality to the sample, on or before 
the second Tuesday in January, 1803. 
130. PAPER FROM RAW VEGETABLE SuB- 
STANCES. To the person, in Great Britain, 
who shall, between the first of January, 1802, 
and the first of January, 1803, make the great- 
est quantity, and of the best quality, (not less 
than fen reams) of good and useful paper, frona 
raw vegetable substances, the produce of Great 
Britain or Ireland, of which one hundred weight 
has not been used in manufacturing paper pre= 
vious to January, 1801, superior to any hitherte 
manufactured from such substances, and which 
can be generally afforded as cheap as paper of 
equal quality and appearance now made from 
rags; twenty guineas. 
NV. B. The object of the Society being to add 
to the number and quantity of raw materials 
used in this manufacture, it is their wish to in# 
clude every useful sort of paper, and to intro- 
duce such natural products as can be easily and 
cheaply procured in great quantities. The So- 
ciety are in possession of two volumes contain- 
ing a great variety of specimens of paper made 
from raw vegetable substances, v/z.—nettles, 
potatoe-hawlm, poplar, hop-bines, &c. which 
volumes may be inspected by any person on ap- 
plication to the housekeeper, 
Certificates of the making such paper, and 
one ream of the paper, to be produced on or 
before the second Tuesday in January, 1803. 
131. TRANSPARENT Paper, To the per 
son who shall discover to the Society a method 
of making paper from the pulp that shall be 
perfectly transparent, and of a substance and 
body equal to fools-cap, that shall take and 
bear common writing ink with the same faci- 
lity and correctness as writing paper generally in 
