index:. 
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S. 
Segment, 9-pr., diagram of practice 
with, at Dartmoor ... ... 31 
... Shells and their fuzes ... ... 29 
Shells, Boxer shrapnel ... ... ... 22 
... Billed, common, described ... 22 
Double do. ... 20 
“ Short Notes on Professional Subjects ” 
published during 1869-70 ... ... 2 
Do. do. 1870-1 301 
Shot, case, described . 25 
. Size of balls for, discussed ... 26 
Shrapnel shells and their fuzes. 29 
Siege guns, materiel for. ... 27 
Skirmishing, discussion as to the best 
mode of.249 
Sladen, J., Lieut. B.A., on the merits 
of a large bore and small bore con¬ 
trasted .273 
Sladen, Lieut., on the resistance of the 
air .395 
Smith, F. M., Capt. B.A., on the ex¬ 
amination and proof of gunpowder ... 50 
Smyth, H. A., Col. B.A., some obser¬ 
vations amongst German armies dur¬ 
ing 1870, by ..184 
Spare wheels, carriage of deprecated ... 271 
Splitting of Palliser chilled shells ... 36 
Do. do. do. remedied 38 
Steel and bronze, relative merits of, for 
inner barrel of a gun ... ... ... 257 
Steel as a metal for guns ... ... 253 
Stirling, W., Major E.A., on mobility 
of field artillery ... ... ... 280 
Story of the 36-inch mortars of 1855-8, 
by Major-General Lefroy, C.B., P.K.3., 
B. A.203 
Strange, Capt., observations on Capt. 
C. O. Browne’s paper, “ Our rifled 
projectiles and fuzes”. 34 
Superiority of muzzle-loading over 
breech-loading guns .87 
T. 
Table for facilitating the calculation of 
the range corresponding to a given 
loss of velocity of any spherical 
shot ... ... ... ... 391 
... Do. do. elongated shot (ogival 
head) .392 
... Giving comparison of ranges of 
shells of different weights fired 
with the same charge . 218 
... Of comparative practice with a 
13-inch land service mortar of 
36 cwt.224 
... Of endurance of heavy M.L. rifled 
guns .255 
... Of field battery and horse artillery 
equipment. 263 
... Of practice with Mallet’s 36-inch 
mortar, No. 1 ... 214 
... Showing observed times of flight 
compared with the times due to 
the same ranges in vacuo ... 219 
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Table showing the comparative weights 
of guns and number of rounds 
carried by the horse and field 
artillery of various armies ... 282 
... Showing the constitution of the 
Swedish light artillery in 1797 ... 466 
... Showing the relative power of guns 
in the service . 275 
... Showing the relative velocity of 
our service rifled guns ... ... 287 
... Showing the velocities of 9-pr. and 
12-pr. projectiles. 265 
... Showing weight behind team in 
English, Prussian, French, Aus¬ 
trian, and Indian services ... 171 
Tables of remaining velocity, time of 
flight, and energy of various pro¬ 
jectiles, by the Eev. F. Bashforth, 
e.d. 367 
Tactics of Prussian armies . 199 
Telescope for B.A.I. Observatory ... 313 
Testing gunpowder by “flashing ” ... 52 
Do. do. for foreign matters 52 
Thionville, situation, fortification, in¬ 
vestment, &c., of . 184 
“ Times ” correspondent on the relative 
cost of “Woolwich” and Krupp 
systems of guns ... ... ... 95 
Tweedie, M., Capt. B.A., a system of 
iron-plating a cruising ship, by ... 486 
y. 
Velocities of 9-pr. and 12-pr. projectiles 265 
Of rifles used by the English, 
French, and German in¬ 
fantry ... ... ... 277 
Velocity of our service rifled guns ... 287 
Vertical fire, observations on . 28 
W. 
Waltham Abbey, examination and proof 
of gunpowder at ... ... ... 50 
Warde, Sir Edward, Major-General, on 
mobility of field artillery . 288 
White tiger skin, presented to B.A.I. 
by Capt. C. W. Wilson, B.A. ... 310 
Wolfe, W. S. M., Capt. B.A., on the 
autumn manoeuvres of 1871 ... ... 496 
“ Woolwich ” and Krupp’s B.L. systems, 
competitive trial be¬ 
tween . 62 
... Guns, projectiles for ... 20 
B.M.L. guns, cost of ... 94 
Wr ought-iron forgings, experiments 
with.207 
Guns . 253 
Y. 
Yonge, W. L., Capt. B.A., on a new 
system of signalling . 479 
