424 
INDEX. 
Conjunctor, the, 117, 152 
Crimean memorial statue, removal of, 228 
Crimean memorial fund, explanatory state¬ 
ment of proceedings, 227 j balance sheet of 
accounts, 230 
Daft, Mr, proposed method of coppering ships, 
36 
Defence Commission, idea of employing iron 
for works of defence, 31 
“Defence,” orders for construction of, 30 
Definitions in gunnery, 27 
Dimensions of 600-pr. Armstrong rifled gun, 
419 
Disjunctor, the, 117,152 
Douglas, Sir Howard, statement of practice 
against a Carnot wall, 245 
Draught of report, of experiment against a 
Screen representing the wall of a fortress, 
according to Carnot’s system, 239 
Duncan, Lieut., on adaptation of the cupola 
of Capt. Coles to modern fortresses, 107;— 
cupolas and forts, 213 
Dyer, Captain, on iron defences, 29 
Elevation of the object, definition of, 28 
Embarcation of “G” battery at Liverpool, 
and landing at St John, New Brunswick, 179 
English sleighs condemned, 180 ;-r- their faults, 
ib . > 
Experiments against iron plates, carried on at 
Shoeburyness, 8th April, 1862, 89 
— ■ on 26th June, 1862, against Mr Scott 
Bussell’s and Mr Samuda’s targets, 99 
• -on 7th July, 1862, to determine the resist¬ 
ing powers of the “Minotaur” class of 
men-of-war, 103 
■ — -on 16th and 25th Sept. 1862, to test the 
penetrating power of the Horsefall gun, 168 
— — on the 13th Nov. 1862, with Whitworth 
projectiles, 174 
--on 29th Dec. 1862, against a shield con¬ 
structed on the principle proposed by Capt. 
Inglis,B.E., representing an iron embrasure, 
for either casemated or open coast batteries, 
224 
——on 29th Dec. 1862, continued on Captain 
Inglis’s second shield, 253 
--on 17th March, 1863, to test three rolled 
armour plates, supplied by Messrs Brown 
and Co. of Sheffield, 256 
--on 27th April, 1863, against a target 
proposed by Mr Chalmers, and constructed 
at the Millwall iron works, 316 
-on 19th Nov. 1863, preliminary trial of a 
600-pr. 13*3 in. M. L. wrought-iron, 10;— 
grooved shunt Armstrong rifle gun, under 
the direction of the O.S. Committee, 419 
Experiments against iron plates, 7 
—to ascertain the angle of projection and 
the trajectories of the 12-pr. Armstrong 
projectiles when fired p.b. and at an ap¬ 
parent elevation of 30', 130 
• -to ascertain the initial velocity of the old 
pattern (25 lbs.) projectiles fired from 20-pr. 
guns, 131 
■-to ascertain the angle of departure and 
the trajectories of the 12-pr. Armstrong, 
projectiles when laid p.b. 145 
--to determine the time of a small oscil¬ 
lation of the pendulum to Navez’s appara¬ 
tus, 146, 147 
• -on cast-iron cylinders, rifled on various 
systems, 264 
Eairbaim and Co., Messrs, “Committee” 
target constructed by, 44 
Farm sleds, for conveyance of troops, 180 
Eield works, 219 
FitzHugh, Major, on “ time of burning ” of 
fuzes under different atmospheric pressures, 
259 
Fortification, permanent, 219 
Forts and cupolas, 213 
Frame targets, 154 
Frank! and, Dr, on phenomena of combustion, 
14 
French reverberatory furnaces, management 
of, 81 
-guns, manufacture of, ib. ; smooth-bore, 
passing of, 83; extraordinary proof, and 
the proof of continuous firing of, 84 
—tables of 87, 88 
Fuzes, “ time of burning,” under atmospheric 
pressures, 259 
Greathed, Col., report by the minister of 
marine, Paris, translated from the French 
by, 75 
Gun cotton, extracts from the report of an 
Austrian commission on, 114 
-experiments by the French on, 369;— 
Austrian analysis of, 371;—unalterable 
quality of Lenk’s, 373;—whether spon¬ 
taneously combustible, 377;—explosions of, 
accounted for, 379;—the “force brisante” 
of, 380;—application of, to mining warfare, 
381 
-on the products of the combustion of, 
and gunpowder, 383 
Guns, Armstrong and smooth-bore, results of 
practice with ricochet fire, 249 
Gunpowder, Belgian, experiments on the proof 
of, 110; samples of, 111 
Gunpowder and gun cotton compared, 376 
Hartley’s rolled bars of iron, 31 
Hewlett, Captain, experiments carried on by, 
H.M.S. “ Excellent,” at Portsmouth, 31 
Hutchinson, Capt., observations upon works 
of defence to enable them to keep pace with 
improvements in artillery, 219 
Height of the object, definition of, 28 
High angle firing, 231 
Homogeneous iron, inapplicable for defensive 
purposes, 33 
Horsfall gun, penetrating powers of, 168 
Horseshoe electro-magnet, 117 
Initial velocities determined, under direc¬ 
tion of Ordnance Select Committee, by 
means of Navez’s electro-ballistic appa¬ 
ratus, 11, 12 
-determined by Navez’s apparatus, of 
various guns fired with different charges, 74 
-of rifled guns, 72 
-of different natures of American guns, ib. 
-of different projectiles, with different 
charges, 73 
-of service projectiles, fired from service 
guns with service charges, 121 
• -irregularity of, with Martin’s shells, ib. 
• -experiments made to ascertain the differ¬ 
ence of old and new pattern 12-pr. shells, 
with and without lubricating wads, 127 
-comparative, of same shell fired'from rifled 
and smooth-bored 32-prs. of 58 cwt., 128 
-of projectiles fired from a 32-pr. rifled 
shunt gun, with charges made up in cart¬ 
ridges of various lengths, ib. 
