Ko. 144."! 585 



Mr. Godwin moved that the question be advertised. Carried- 

 The Club adjourned to the first Monday of May next. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary, 



May 7, 1855. 

 Present — Messrs. E. W. Serrell, Abraham Taylor, F. K. Fisher, 

 Henry B. Renwick, Samuel D. Backus, Messrs. Prentiss, Van 

 Wyck, Nash, and others — 21 members. 



President, Henry B. Renwick in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the minutes of the last meeting. 



Mr. Godwin moved to amend them in this. That the question 

 proposed by Mr. Serrell, relative to the iron best suited for horse 

 shoes and wheel tire on the New- York pavements, was not or- 

 dered for this meeting. After some discussion, the minutes were 

 e^pproved. 



Mr. E. W. Serrell moved the consideration of Mr. Fisher's plan 

 of a steam carriage on common roads, and waived the discussion 

 of the iron shoes, &c., for the present. The next question in 

 order, viz., Lindner's gun, was taken up. 



James Prentiss, of No. 1 Chambers street, New- York, in behalf 

 of Mr. Lindner, who was present, exhibited two of his guns; one 

 a gun of eleven pounds weight, with an under barrel attached, in 

 which are deposited forty cartridges of about one inch in length 

 each. On cocking the gun (which is also a needle gun), one 

 charge is fired and another instantly made to take its place, so 

 that by cocking and firing, the forty bullets are all discharged if 

 desired as fast as the piece can be cocked and fired. The other 

 gun, called a cap gun, receives twenty-five cartridges, and is dis- 

 charged and supplied like the first by mere cocking and firing. 

 The balls are twenty to a pound. Heavier balls can be used, if 

 desired, by elongation. Price of the 40 charge guns about $60 

 each. 



