IV. 
CONTENTS, 
TAGS 
On Accidental Explosions. A Lecture delivered at the Eoyal Institution of 
Great Britain, in March, 1875, by E. A. Abel, F.E.S., President of the 
Chemical Society, Vice-President of the Society of Arts and the Society 
of Telegraph Engineers, Hon. Member of the Eoyal Artillery and Eoyal 
United Service Institutions, &c... 259 
English versus German Eield Guns; a Comparison. By Lieut. S. C. 
Pratt, E.A. .‘. 296 
Time Fuze, proposed by Lieut. W. Martin, E.A. 299 
Our Service Small-Arms; their Manufacture and Eepair. By Major F. S. 
Stoney, E.A. .. .. 803 
The Application of Professor Bashforth’s General Tables to Problems in 
Practical Gunnery. By Captain J. Sladen, E.A., Professor of Artillery, 
F.M. Academy . 320 
Table of the Dimensions, Weight, and Tonnage of Carriages, &c., in use with 
an Army Corps. Communicated by Colonel G. T. Field, E.A., Superin¬ 
tendent Eoyal Carriage Department ... 333 
New Garrison Carriages. By Major W. Kemmis, E.A. 335 
The 80-ton Gun. By Major E. Maitland, E.A., Assistant Superintendent 
Eoyal Gun Factories . 342 
Instruments employed by the Committee on Explosives for Investigating the 
Action of Gunpowder in the Bores of Guns. By Capt. C. Jones, E.A., 
Assistant in the Experimental Branch of the Director of Artillery’s 
Department. 354 
Eecent Historical Notes connected with the Eoyal Eegiment of Artillery. 
(No. I.) Brig.-General E. T. Michell. (Communicated by Major 
F. Duncan, E.A.) . 379 
On the Heavy 4-pr. Gun for Field Batteries, proposed by the Eussian Artillery 
Committee. By Captain Paskevitch. (From the “ Eussian Artillery 
Journal” for July 1875.) Translated into Italian, and published in the 
“ Giornale d’Artiglieria e Genio” for October 1875, and thence trans¬ 
lated by Colonel H. H. Maxwell, E.A. . 383 
The 7 C Italian Field Gun (Bronze). By Colonel H. II. Maxwell, E.A. 392 
The Next Step in Field Artillery Progress. By Lt.-Col. Fox Strangways, E.A. 403 
New (Wrought-iron) Carriages, for Field and Siege Service. By 
Major W. Kemmis, E.A.,. 410 
Short Notes on Erecting Portable Sheers in Cork Harbor for Lifting 3 5-ton 
Guns, 1875-6. By Lt.-Col. Denis-de-Vitre, E.A. 413 
Precis of the Franco-German War. By Captain S. C. Pratt, E.A. Part I. 
Saarbriicken to Metz .. 416 
On the Considerations Affecting the Positions to be taken up, and the Time 
of Opening Fire by Artillery in the Field, under the following circum¬ 
stances :—(1) As Artillery of the Advanced Guard, (2) As Artillery of 
the Main Body of an Attacking Force, (3) As Artillery of the Main Body 
of a Defensive Force, (4) As Artillery of the Eear Guard. And on the 
Eesults of Field Artillery Fire against the most Eecent Formations in 
which Troops Attack. By Colonel H. A. Smyth, E.A. (The E.A. 
Institution Prize Essay 1876) . 433 
Annual Eeport and Abstract of Proceedings of a General Meeting of the 
Eoyal Artillery Institution, held on May 29, 1876. Maj.-Gen. W. J. 
Smythe, E.A., F.E.S., in the Chair. 451 
The 80-ton Gun. By Major E. Maitland, E.A., Assistant Superintendent 
Eoyal Gun Factories ... 463 
Traction. [No. II.] By Major W. Kemmis, E.A. 477 
Current Fortificational Developments at the German Fortresses of Posen and 
Strasburg. By Col. H, A. Smyth, E.A... 483 
