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455. MOOR AND LOCH. John Colquhoun. " Containing 

 practical hints on most of the Highland Sports ; and 

 notices of the habits of the different creatures of game 

 and prey in the mountainous districts of Scotland." 

 Edinburgh, 1840, Svo; London, 1851. Fourth edition 

 enlarged, 2 vols, 1878; Fifth, 1880, 1884. 



456. PORTRAITS OF GAME. Sir W. 0. Hams. The sketches 

 of African Field Sports drawn by F. Howard, the 

 animals " delineated from life in their native haunts." 

 London, 1840. Folio. 



457. RIFLE AND ITS EXERCISE. Contained in " Defensive 

 Exercises." Edited by D. Walker. London, 1840. Svo. 



458. MS. Account of Gun-making in Birmingham. 

 Nawkes Smith. Written about 1840. Quoted by 

 S. Timmins in " Industrial History of Birmingham." 



459. ROD AND GUN. James Wilson. The Angling and 

 Shooting articles from the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." 

 Black, Edinburgh, 1840, 1841, etc. Svo, with en- 

 gravings and a frontispiece. 



460. GUIDE TO THE TOWER. John Hewitt. Some descrip- 

 tions of the Armour and Weapons in the Tower of 

 London. First published in 1841. 



461. ENGINES OF WAR; or historical and experimental 

 observations on ancient and modern warlike machines 

 and implements ; including the manufacture of guns, 

 gunpowder, and swords, with remarks on bronze, iron, 

 steel, etc. Henry Wilkinson, M.R.A.S. A readable 

 treatise by the eminent sword manufacturer and gun- 

 maker of Pall Mall. It is based on a paper read 

 before the Royal Institution, and its theory of the 

 discovery of gunpowder is most ingenious. The de- 

 scriptions of manufacturing processes are not accurate, 

 and the author was led into a serious error as to the 

 " composition of explosives." W. Greener exposed 

 the error in his " Science of Gunnery," and a note 



