Yn the agricultural department ; the 
&cld medal was awarded tothe Earl of 
Fife, for his extentive plantations of foreft- 
trees—to Lord Vifcount Newark for en- 
-couraging the growth of oak-timber—to 
the Rev. Mr. Munnings for experiments 
on the culture and prefervation of turnips 
sto John Sherriff, Efq.. for his pianta- 
tion of ofiers. This gentleman had the 
choice either of the gold medal or a con- 
fiderable pecuniary reward ; to which he 
made a reply which does great-honour to 
his own feelings, as well as to the Society 
to' which it was addrefled: ‘* Heaven 
knows,(iays he), that Iam not rich, yet I 
Should think meanly of the man who could 
put.a much greater fum of money in com- 
petition with any of the honorary rewards 
of the Society. I give a decided prefer- 
ence to their medal, and hard muft be my 
fate on that day in which. part with it.” 
To Mr. John Knapping was alfo awarded 
the gold medal for gaining 220 acres ot - 
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Jand from the encroachments of the fea. 
In prefenting the medal to this gentleman, 
the Duke of Norfolk obferved that it af- 
forded him great gratification in rewarding 
a gentleman who had not only improved, 
‘but enlarged his ecountry--To Chriftian 
Curwen, Efq. for his experiments on feed- 
ing cattle with potatoes—to the Rev. Ed- 
taund Cartwricht for a three-furrow 
plough—to Dr. Ainflie for his plantations 
of timber-trees—to Benjamin Wadding- 
ton, Efq. for improvements in boggy- 
Jand—to Mr. David Charles fora machine 
for laying land level—and to Mr. Robert 
Green for a drill machine for fowing peas, 
beans, &c. the filver medal was awarded 
and prefented. 
In the clafs of polite arts ; the gold 
medal was given to Mr. Ryder for a iine 
engraving—and to Mifs Jackfon for a 
drawing in Chaiks. ‘To Mr. Richard Auf- 
tin for an engraving in wood—-to Mifs E. 
Farhill for an original drawing—to Mifs 
Blackburne for a drawing of Jupiter Am- 
tmon—to Mifs Paytherus for a portrait of 
her fifter—to Mr. J. T. James fora draw- 
ing of Worcefter cathedral—to Milfs 
Beauchamp for a painting, being a fea- 
view—and to Milfs Mary Ann Gilbert, 
for an exquifite painting, being a view .of 
St. Mark’s-place, Venice, in which the 
perfpective was admirably kept, was pre- 
fented the filver medal. 
The greater Silver Pallet was prefented 
to Matter James Hopweod, aged only 
iz yeais, for a very fine drawing from a 
caft of the Atlas—andto Mr. Hugh Neill 
for a drawing ot Brecknock Priory. 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
[July t, 
To Mr. George Shepherd for an origi- 
nal drawing of St. Alban’s Abbey, was 
adjudged the fmaller Silver Pallet—and to 
Mr. Horwood, of Liverpool, fora map of 
London, on a very extenfive fcalé, was 
prefen‘ed a purfe containing fifty guineass 
This map coft nine years of unremitted 
care and attention: 
In the ciafs of mechanics; Dr. Win- 
terbottom preferred the filver medal toa 
confiderable pecuniary reward, for an in- 
genious machine for clearing ‘turnpike 
roads from mud. | One of thefe machines 
will clear from mud three miles of roady 
twenty feet wide, in a fingle day, which 
would require the labour of 120 men to 
effeét in the ufual mode—=To Mr. James 
Woart the filver medal and twenty guineas 
were prefented, for his methed of raifing 
aroof funk in the middle; the experiment 
was made,and found completely to anfwer 
in the cafe of the roof of Clapham church, » 
the {pan of which was fifry-eight -feet, 
and the height from the floor 40 feet. 
Mr. Edward Maffey and Mr. John Prior 
have both difplayed great ingenuity in their 
refpeétive contrivances for improving the 
mechanifm in the flriking parts of clocks, 
for thefe, tothe former, were voted twenty, - 
and to the latter, thirty guimeas—to Mr. 
Maffey was alle prefented fifty pounds, for 
very admirable detached efcapements of 
pendulum clocks—-Te Mr. Thomas Foth- 
ringham a premium of fifteen guineas was 
given fora method cf making mill-ftones 
for grinding wheat from the Abbey Craig 
Quarry; and to the following perfons 
premicms of ten guineas each: viz.—td 
Mr. ols, of Bateman’s Buildings, for a 
ring with a contraéting and expanding 
power, fo ingenioufly contrived as to fit 
fingers of various fizes—to Mr. William 
Bowler for an excellen: ferew-prefs,which 
has the power of preffure as the fubftance 
to which it is applied contra€ts ; this ef- 
fect is produced by means of a fpiral 
fpring conftantly acting upon the fcrew, 
-in a fimple but very effeGual_manner—to 
Mr. Antis fora fmali machine,which,when 
fixed to the axis cf the windlafs, will ac- 
curately ascertain for feveral weeks, and 
without any attendance, the number of 
times a box attached to the rope, has been 
raifed from the bottom of a mine during 
that period, and thereby preventing thofe 
impofitions which are too frequently prae- 
tiled by cclliers, bankimen, and miners, 
‘upon their mafters—and-to Mr. Thomas 
Barker for an improved mode of Warping 
Webbs for weavers. 
' To the Hon. Jofeph Robley,-of Tova- 
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