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iron-clad, would equal that of six ten-inch solid shot: and that of the 
battering shell would considerably exceed that of seven ten-inch solid shot. 
This gun being entirely experimental, Government only pays the ex- 
penses of manufacture. On all guns cast hollow, however, the patentees 
get one cent per pound royalty. 
The casting of this gun took place under the supervision of Major 
Dyer, of the Springfield (Mass.) Armory ; Major Rodman, of the Arsen- 
al, Watertown, Mass.; and Capt. Benét, Inspector-in-chief of Ordnance, 
West Point, N. Y.: all of the Army. And there were present Capt. 
Aulick, of the Ordnance Bureau, and Capt. Berrian, Inspector of cannon 
and projectiles at this station, of the Navy. Capt. Goodenough of the 
yal Navy, and the Marquis de Basse Court, of the Italian Navy, were 
among the distinguished s 
This immense Foundry is now carried on by Charles Knap, Esq. He 
has for his foreman Mr. Joseph Kaye, acknowledged to be the best gun 
founder in the country. G. 
VII. BOOK NOTICES. 
1. First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Sub- 
stances, By Frayx H. Srorer. Part Il—The importance which we 
attach to Mr. Storer’s work now in process of publication leads us to 
of sources, as is sufficiently evinced by the great number 
ences given. As asingle example, we may remark that the solubility 
of nitrate of potash in various menstrua is illustrated by no less than 
sixty-three quotations from authors on the subject. ‘ 
_ the advantages of a work like this are two-fold. For it not oe 
the chemist by placing in an acceptable shape the information whic 
lus to the completion of an exact knowledge on the subject to which it 
ne . It exposes, by a si ificant silence, the points which have 
been overlooked or neglected, or relative to which no observations have 
een made; thereby inviting active chemists to fill up these lacunes and 
complete our knowledge. Mr. Storer has moreover given very conscien- 
tiously his authority for by far the greater num of his statements, 
therein following the excellent example set by Leopold Gmelin; which is 
Sie y Ra coming more and more g nipieak-tepret 
hs is - i isfac J in ¥ . mae 
reader and to the nevtiors'qaeiel ” To the latter, it aids in giving the 
just reward of their labors, that consideration and reputation which to- 
gether with honest and hearty love for the study, is so often the only 
Feeompense that fulls to the lot of the really scientific chemist. To the 
4m. Jour. Sc1.—Secoxp Seuims, Vou. XXXVII, No. 110.—Mancu, 1864. 
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