THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
893 
DEYELOPMENT OP ARTILLERY MISSILES 
DURING 1870. 
BY 
CAPTAIN C. 0 . BROWNE, R.A., 
CAPTAIN INSTRUCTOR, ROYAL LABORATORY-. 
A Paper read at the R.A. Institution, Woolwich , January 31, 18J1, to supplement the Paper 
on Rifled Shells and Buzes read by Capt. C. 0. Browne , March 8, 18JQ. 
Colonel W. J. Smythe, R.A., presided, and Captain A. D. Burnaby, 
Secretary of the Royal Artillery Institution, introduced the lecturer and 
his subject to the meeting. 
Captain C. 0. Browne then read the following paper:— 
I propose to-day to place before you typical specimens of all the 
projectiles and fuzes connected with our rifled equipments now in the 
service. Those that have- come into the service during the last year or 
seem likely to be adopted, I propose to describe briefly, explaining as 
far as I can the general character and design of each without entering 
into unnecessary detail. The remainder I merely mean to enumerate j 
in fact I only attempt to supplement the summary T gave last March, 
by taking a short review of any new features assumed by our equip¬ 
ments, besides discussing a few questions of special interest, with the 
hope that an opportunity may be afforded of hearing the opinions of 
officers who have not leisure to bring their views forward in a formal 
manner, and this the more because I am going to touch on matters of 
which my own knowledge is most imperfect. 
On the table are specimens of each class of service projectile, so that 
I may say in a manner that all the skill and science of every branch of 
the regiment culminates in effectively striking the personnel or materiel 
of an enemy with one or another of the projectiles now before us. 
To begin with the heavy ordnance. 
In the equipment of the Woolwich guns there is little change, so 
that the guns stand—13", 12", 10", 9", 8", and 7" (besides the experi¬ 
mental 11 *6" gun). These guns have for their complete equipment— 
Common shell, | Palliser shot, 
Boxer shrapnel shell, j Case shot, 
Palliser shell, * 
(the 7-inch only firing double shell), 
