To Samuel Parker the younger, of Argyl-street, in the parish of St. James, Westminster, Middlesex, bronzist, for certain improvements in the construction of lamps.-10th Dec.-2 m. To William Bundy, of Fulham, Middlesex, mathematical instrument maker, for his machine for breaking, cleaning and preparing flax, hemp, and other vegetable substances containing fibre.-16th December.-6 months. To Thomas Barnard Williamson Dudley, of King-street, in the parish of St. Ann, Westminster, Middlesex, mechanist, for his method of making or manufacturing malleable castmetal shoes for draft and riding horses, and other animals, upon a new and improved plan or principle.-16th Dec.-6 m. To John Nicholson, of Brook-street, Lambeth, Surry, civil engineer, for certain apparatus for the more conveniently applying heat to certain instruments of domestic use.-16th December.-6 months. To John Dumbell, of Howley House, Warrington, Lancashire, merchant, for certain improvements relative to carriages, which may be applied thereto, or in improving of the organization, driving, actuating, accelerating, or moving of vehicles and carriages in general.-16th December.-6 months. To John Bainbridge, of Bread-street, Cheapside, London, merchant, who, in consequence of a communication made to him by Amos Thayer, junior, of the city of Albany, in the United States of America, mechanist, is in possession of certain improvements on rotatory steam-engines.-16th Dec.—6 mon. To Matthias Wilks, of Dartford, Kent, seed-crusher, for his method of refining oil produced from seed.-20th December.-6 months. To Thomas Linley, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, bellows-maker, for his method of increasing the force or power of bellows.20th December.-2 months. To Sir James Jelf, of Oaklands, near Newnham, Gloucestershire, knight, for his combination of machinery for working and ornamenting marble and other stone for jambs, mantles, chimney-pieces, and other purposes.-20th December.-6 mo. To John Isaac Hawkins, of Pentonville, civil engineer, and Sampson Mordan, of Union-street, City-road, portable penmaker, for their improvements on pencil holders or port crayons, and on pens for the purpose of facilitating writing and drawing, by rendering the frequent cutting or mending of the points or nibs unnecessary.-20th December.-6 months. To William Pass, of Curtain-road, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, dyer, for his improvement in calcining and smelting of various descriptions of ore.-20th December.-6 months. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE. The London Observations by Mr. CARY, of the Strand. The Boston Observations by Mr. SAMUEL VEALL. The quantity of Rain in London since the 26th Nov. amounts to 2 In. 3 tenths. thesis of, Gases, capacity of, for caloric, 401 Lectures, 159, 239 358 Lenses, aberrations of, 147 69 Leslie's hygrometrical experiments, 81 Gaseous spring, 77; repulsion, hypo- Life-boat, Gower's, 18 Lightning. Effect of, 409 155 Linnean Society of London, 388, 455, 150 Geology of Sussex, 211 Gower's life-boat, 409 Lunar distance. On the, 271 Micrometer, new circular, 400, 472 314 $29 Moon. Eclipse of, measured with a on aqueous vapours, 357; on acids 401 Pyroligneous acid, alkohol from, 155, Quartz Porous nature of, 315 310 5 Reade on refraction. Stark's remarks Refraction. Stark on, 5 Repeating circle, 8, 112; improved by 263 Repulsion, gaseous. Hypothesis of, 18 75 Riddle on the double altitude problem, Rocky Mountains. Expedition to the, Rose. Analysis of the, Russell on the tides, Salt storm, 73 70 70 397 210, 267, 395 394 202 Sanctis (Dr. de) on frigorific experi- sis of, 434 301, 390 32, 161, 249, 402 850 Society, Royal, 67, 135, 379, 387, 459; 385, 395 466 Palm-tree cordage, 236 Solar Eclipse, Sept. 1820, 25 Parallels. Theory of, 423 South Downs. Fossils of the, 211 Parkinson on fossils, 139 Sowerby, Mr. James, 326 Patents, new, 79, 159, 239, 327, 599, Specific gravity, instrument for deter- 470 Peall on foot rot in sheep, 218 Pendulum. Capt. Kater's, 156 Pfeiffer on Mollusca, 221 Plants, burnt. Indications of, 154 Pleiades. Baily on the, 189 mining, 113, 257 |