164 Appendices. 



300 copies only issued, and it is somewhat rare ; 

 the only copy I have been able to examine formerly 

 belonged to M. Faraday, and is now in the Patent 

 Library. Madras, 1829. 8vo, pp. viii, 138. 



2104. MEMOIR ON GUN-POWDER. John Braddock. This 

 is the London edition of No. 2103 ; it was also trans- 

 lated into French as " Notes on Manufacture of Gun- 

 powder in the East Indies, by Ravichio de Peretsdorf" 

 Paris, 1840. London, 1832. 8vo. 



2105. SKETCH of the mode of manufacturing Gunpowder 

 at the Ishapore Mills in Bengal, with a record of the 

 experiments carried on to ascertain the value of 

 charge, windage, vent, and weight, etc., in mortars 

 and muskets ; also reports of the various proofs of 

 powder. Col. W. A'nderson ; with notes and additions 

 by Lieut.-Col. Parlby. This is a comprehensive and 

 apparently exhaustive work. J. Weale, London, 1862, 

 303 pp., plates, tables, etc. 



2106. HANDBOOK of the manufacture and proof of Gun- 

 powder as carried on at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, 

 Waltham Abbey. F. Smith. This is a serviceable 

 handbook. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1870. Demy 8vo, 

 132 pp., plates. 



2107. NOTES ON GUNPOWDER, by a manufactui-er. A 

 pamphlet issued gratuitously by Messrs. Curtiss and 

 Harvey. Contains some practical hints on loading 

 shot cartridges, and states the advantages which black 

 gunpowder possesses when compared with the nitro 

 compounds. 74, Lombard Street, London, 1890, etc. 

 8vo, cloth limp. 



2108. GUNPOWDER. Methode suivie & la Poudrerie du 

 Bouchet, pour les essais et analyses des salpetres 

 raffines. F. Castan, 1880. 8vo, 1 franc (Rev. d'Art 

 reprint). 



2109. TEORIA CHIMICA DELLA COMPOSIZIONE DELLE POLVERE 

 A Fuoco. Carlo Sobrero. A work of considerable 

 interest, and based upon a long study of explosives. 



