THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS AND
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS OF ALL NATIONS.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME, SECOND SERIES.

Specifications of Patents published in this Volume.

Mr. MARTIN'S, for Improvements in the Art of tanning and

dreffing Hides and Skins,

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Mr. WYATT's, for Improvements in the Apparatus for, and Mode
of, diftilling and drying Coffee and Sugar,

Mr. BEATSON'S, for a Method of applying the Power of Wind
and Water to horizontal Mills, and the fame Principle to other
Purposes,

Meffrs. FRYER and BENNETT's, for a Method of manufacturing,

cutting, dreffing, dying, and finishing of Cloth, the Warp

whereof is compofed of Silk, Cotton, Woollen, Worsted, or

Linen Yarn, and the Weft of Sheep's Wool or Lamb's Wool,

Mr. BOSWELL'S, for a Method of building or fabricating Ships or

Veffels for Navigation,

Mr. CHAPMAN'S, for the Application of certain Substances, either
feparately or combined, as a Prefervative of Cordage,

Mr. WILSON'S, for an improved Plan of making, adjufting, and

ftamping Scale-weights,

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Mr. THOELDEN's, for certain mechanical Apparatus for support-
ing the human Body, or any Part thereof, more efpecially du-
ring the Time of Repose,

104

Mr. HODSON'S, for a new and improved Procefs, or Proceffes,
for preparing Foffil, or Mineral Alkali,

Mr. BRAMAH'S, for Machinery for producing ftraight, finooth, and

parallel Surfaces, on Wood and other Materials,

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165

Mr. MURRAY'S, for new combined Steam-engines for producing a

circular Power,

175

Mr. PERKINS', for the Art of relieving and curing various Diseases, 179

Mr. GARDINER's, for a Method of preventing all Sorts of Grain

and Seeds from receiving Damage by Heat on board Ships, and

in Warehouses,

Mr. BARRETO'S, for a Method of treating and curing Ruptures

Mr. NICHOLSON's, for Machinery for the better and more expe-

ditious manufacturing of Files,

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258

Mr. LEACH'S, for a Method of using Madder in the dying of Ca-

licos, Linens, and Stuffs,

Mr. BILLINGSLEY'S, for a Machine for boring Cylinders for

Steam-engines,

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321

Mr. RICHARDSON's, for Improvements in preparing, colouring,

and uniting the Skins of Sheep and Lambs,

328

Meffrs. SCOTT, CLARKSON, TATHAM, and MELLISH's, for cer-

tain Articles denominated Tatham's Clumps, for constructing

Water-pipes, Sewers, Tunnels, &c.

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333.

Mr. VANCOUVER's, for an Earth of peculiar Properties, capable
of being rendered a Substitute for Soap,

Mr. DAWSON'S, for a Lamp, or Lanthorn, for travelling Carriages, 401.

Mr. DOBSON'S, for a Contrivance for chafing away Flies and other
Infects, called a Zephyr,

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404

Mr. PLEES'S, for manufacturing Paper, and for applying the same
to Purposes for which Paper has never before been used,

Mr. CLAYFIELD's, for reducing and extracting Lead and other

Metals from Regulus,

406

407

Original Communications.

Subftance of an Effay lately published refpecting the conftruction,
hanging, and faftening of Gates and Wickets, &c. with fupple-
mentary Improvements. Communicated by the Author, T. N.
PARKER, Efq.

Mr. ALLEN'S Report on the Advantages of Mr. Chapman's Pre-
paration for preferving Cordage,

Defcription of an improved Capfian, or Windlafs. Communi-

cated by Captain THOMAS HAMILTON,

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126

Method of managing Fish-ponds, for improving the Size and

flavour of Carp, Tench, and Perch. By a Member of the Im-

perial Agricultural Society, St. Petersburgh; with additional

Remarks and Improvements adapted to this Country. Commu-

nicated by Mr. RICHARD WESTON,

216

Mr. BILLINGSLEY'S Obfervations on his Patent for a Machine for

boring Cylinders for Steam-engines,

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Papers felected from the Tranfactions of Philofophical Societies.

On the deftructive Effects of the Aphis and Blights on Fruit-trees,

with ufeful Obfervations for preventing them. By T. A.

KNIGHT, Efq.

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On the Naturalization of Plants. By JOHN TEMPLETON, A.L.S.

An Account of an Experiment on the Velocity of Water flowing

through a Vertical Pipe,

Description of Dr. Young's Apparatus for illuftrating the Doctrine

of Preponderance,

Defcription of an Apparatus for impregnating Water and other

Substances ftrongly with Carbonic Acid Gas. By the Rev. G.

AUSTIN, M. R. 1. A.

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Account of a Method of improving Waste Land. By T. FOGG, Efq. 113

Experiments and Obfervations on the Heat and Cold, produced
by the mechanical Condensation and Rarefaction of the Air.
By Mr. JOHN Dalton,

On the Utility of Prufliate of Copper as a Pigment. By CHARLES
HATCHETT, Efq. F. R. S.
Defcription of an improved Mill for grinding hard Subftances. By
Mr. G. TERRY,

Defcription of a reflecting Level, or an artificial Horizon, for

taking Altitudes of the Celestial Bodies, &c. on land by Hadley's

Quadrant, with Remarks on different Levels. By the Rev.

JAMES LITTLE,

Account of a Method of preventing the premature Decay of Fruit-

trees. By Mr. JOHN ELLIS,

Defcription of a Method of cultivating Peach-trees. By THOMAS
COULTER, Efq.

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Account of a Method o obtaining the Salts of Iron at the Mini-

mum of Oxidation

Practical Obfervations on the Method hitherto practifed for ventila-

ting Hofpitals, Goals, &c.; and Defcription of an Invention

for correcting their admitted Imperfections. By Sir G. O.

PAUL, Bart.

Experiments and Obfervations on the Power of Fluids to conduct

Heath, with Reference to Count Rumford's Seventh Eflay on

the fame Subject. By Mr. JOHN DALTON,

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183

212

214

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268

232

An Account of Experiments on the Culture of Beans and Wheat in

one Year, on the fame Land. By Mr. ROBERT BROWN,

Defcription of an Inftrument for breaking up Logs of Wood for
Fuel. By Mr. RICHARD KNIGHT,
Method of fecuring Beams or Girders of Timber decayed by Time,

or injured by the Dry-rot. By Mr. JAMES WOART,

346

Obfervations