Specification of Æneas Morrison : preserving animal and vegetable substances.

  • Morison, Aeneas.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Æneas Morrison : preserving animal and vegetable substances. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1819.NM350. Preserving Animal and Vegetable Substances. MORRISON’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ^neas Morrison, of tlie City of Glasgow, Writer, send greeting. WHEREAS I, tlie said ^neas Morrison, did, by my petition, humbly repre¬ sent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I 5 had invented, discovered, and found out A Combination or certain Processes AND MaNUPACTURES WHEREBY AnIMAL AND VEGETABLE FoOD MIGHT BE PRESERVED roR A GREAT LENGTH OP TiME,” which would of great benefit and advantage to His Majesty’s subjects; and that I was the first and true inventor of the combination of the said processes and manufactures, and that the same had 10 not been used or exercised by any person or persons whatsoever, to the best of knowledge and belief, and praying that His Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, and my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of the said 15 Invention within that part of His Majesty’s United Kingdom called England, and His Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided; and whereas His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might bo 20 for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and did therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, dated at Westminster, the Twenty-