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most fruitful subject of investigation, worthy of engrossing the attention not only 
of artillerymen, but also of purely scientific investigators. 
Colonel Smythe, in expressing the thanks of the meeting to Captain Morgan, said 
that nothing was more remarkable than the way in which the properties of gun¬ 
powder were now considered as compared with what had been the case up to a 
recent period. The forces generated by fired gunpowder under different conditions 
had been discovered to be so complex as to require the most delicate instruments 
for their determination. Captain Morgan had shown that there was yet much to be 
done, both experimentally and instrumentally, and probably an instrument constructed 
on the principle of his proposed large gun would be the best for settling the question 
of pressure. It was very gratifying to find a subject of such great artillery 
importance taken up by an officer of Captain Morgan’s high mathematical ability, 
and he (Colonel Smythe) had no doubt that before long the properties of the forces 
of gunpowder, so far as they were of practical import, would be ascertained and 
usefully applied. (Applause.) 
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