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Class VIII.]

JURY AWARDS-COUNCIL AND PRIZE MEDALS.

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CLASS VIII.

COUNCIL MEDAL.

Nation.

No. inCatalogue.

Name of Exhibitor.

Objects Rewarded.

United Kingdom .

-

Admiralty.

Hydrographic charts, and modeU of the shipsconstructed by them.

France .

12G

Departcment des Cartes de la Marine

Hydrographic surveys, and maps of France ,Algeria , Africa , and Corsica.

-

Depot de la Guerre a Paris .

Great topographical map of France .

United Kingdom .

159

Geological Survey Department ofGreat Britain (Cl. i.)

Geological surveys and maps of the United Kingdom .

136

Duke of Northumberland

For having caused a large number of modelsof life-boats to be designed, with the viewto obtaining the best form of boat for thepreservation of life and property in cases ofshipwTeck.

France .

Ecole des Mines a Paris ....

Geological map of France .

United Kingdom .

12S

Ordnance Department of England .

Illustrations of the Great Ordnance Surveys ofGreat Britain, for the copper-plate etchings,and electrotype process.

Austria.

363

Military Geographical Institute,Vienna .

Survey and detailed maps of the country in andaround Vienna , and of Italy .

United Kingdom .

130

Sir "William Snow Harris ....

System of lightning conductors attached to themasts and hulls of ships, which have been forseveral years in general use in the Navy, as ameans of preserving life and property fromthe effects of lightning.

PRIZE MEDAL.

Belgium ....

143

Ancion and Co .

United Kingdom .

1S5

! Ansell.C. (Cl. v.) .

France .

1083

Barbotin, Captain .

United Kingdom .

m

Beeching, J .

Belgium .

150

: Bernimolin, N., and Brother .

United Kingdom .

104

Berthon, The Rev. E. L.

France .

58

Bertonnet, .

United Kingdom .

206

Brazier, .1., and Son .

334

Brown. Sir S., Captain, Iv.N. .

29

, Carte, A. G .

France .

126

Collin, C. E .

Corporation of London .

United Kingdom .

France .

1057

i

Claudin,F .

United States .

449

Darton, "W .

United Kingdom . .

2*23

; Deane. Adams, and Deane.

55

Dent, E. J., (Cl. x.) .

France .

473

Delvigne, G .

De Re'nemeuil .

166

: Pevisme,.

United Kingdom . .

30

Ditchburn, T. J .

302

; Edgington, B .

Liibcck.

5

Fischer, O. A.

United Kingdom .

-

1 Fox, Alfred.

France .

1612

Gauvain, J..

Complete and varied collection of arms, andmerit in a manufacturing and commercialpoint of view.

A gunning punt on a new principle, for fowlingpurposes.

Improved capstan for managing chain cables.

Design of a life-boat, which was recommendedfor the prize of 100 guineas, to be awarded bythe Duke of Northumberland for the best life-boat.

Collection of sporting and trade guns.

Models of patent perpetual log for indicatingthe speed and leeway of ships, and of hispatent clinometer for showing the list (or in-clination) and trim of ships; and also of acollapsible life-boat, of a portable and usefuldescription.

Sporting guns and arms.

Lock for best guns.

Chain cables.

Self-acting life-buoy, an instrument, by which,since 1838, nearly 400 persons lives have beensaved.

Map engraving.

Illustrations of the art of ship-building for thecommercial marine, almost all showing thegreatest and most important improvements instrength, symmetry, and efficiency; andmostly coming from the establishments withinthe jurisdiction of the Port of London.

Guns, rifles, and pistols.

Models of merchant-vessels.

Double and single guns and pistols.

Successful attempt to construct a compass thatshould not be disturbed by the motion of theship at sea. nor by the firing of guns on board.

Apparatus for saving life from shipwreck. Aprojectile discharged by means of a howitzer.This invention involves a new principle, thatof a portion of the line to be carried out beingcontained in the projectile.

His improvements in the shading of maps,by printing different colours at the sametime.

Sporting guns and arms.

Models of paddles and screw steam-vessels.

Tents.

Double gun, rifle, and pistols.

Fine specimens of nets, seine, &c., for pilchards.

Pistols, form and execution ; sporting guns, &c.