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On the “Time of Burning” of Fuzes under different Atmospheric Pressures, 
Extracted from Comptes Bendus hebdomadaires des Seances de 1’Academic des 
Sciences. Yol. LY. No. 21. Translated from the French of M. Dufour (of 
Lausanne), By Major FitzHugh, B.A. 
Besults of Experiments made to test various Forms of Bifling. By John 
Anderson, Esq., Assistant Superintendent, Boyal Gun Factories. (Communicated 
by the Secretary B.A.I.) 
Experiments performed in the Boyal Gun Factories with “ Sterro Metal.” By 
John Anderson, Esq., Assistant Superintendent, Boyal Gun Factories. (Commu¬ 
nicated by the Secretary B.A.I.) 
The Lock or Turn of Carriages and their Turning Angles. By Lieut.-Col. 
H. H. Maxwell, B.H A. 
Annual Beport and Abstract of Proceedings of a General Meeting of the Boyal 
Artillery Institution, held on Tuesday, May 12, 1863. Major-General Sir B. J. 
Dacres, K.C.B. in the Chair. 
“On the Change of Form assumed by Wrought-Iron and other Metals when 
Heated and then Cooled by partial immersion in Water.” By Lieut.-Col. H. 
Clerk, B.A., F.B.S. 
Account of an Experiment earned on at Shoeburyness, 27th April, 1863, against 
a Target proposed by Mr Chalmers, and constructed at the Millwall Ironworks. 
Contributed by Captain E. J. Bruce, B.A. 
On a Curious Instance of Electrolytic Action. By F. A. Abel, Esq., F.B.S. 
(Communicated by the Secretary B.A.I.) 
Beport of Ordnance Select Committee, No. 2685, dated February 6, 1863. On 
Competitive Bifled Cast-iron Guns. Communicated by direction of the Secretary 
of State for War. 
Beport on Baron Lenk’s Gun Cotton, by Professors Hr Bedtenbacher, Hr 
Schrotter, and Hr Schneider. To His Excellency Field-Marshal Johann Freiherr 
Kempen von Fichtenstamm, President of the Boyal Imperial Commission on Gun 
Cotton, June 1863. With some comments furnished by F. A. Abel, Esq., F.B.S., 
Chemist to the War Hepartment. (Communicated by the Secretary, B.A.I.) 
On the Products of the Combustion of Gun Cotton and Gunpowder under 
circumstances analogous to those which occur in practice. By Lieut, von Karolyi. 
From Philosophical Magazine, October, 1863. 
Beport of Experiments instituted by the Assistant Superintendent of the Boyal 
Carriage Hepartment, at the suggestion of the Boyal Engineer Committee, and 
sanctioned by the Hirector of Ordnance, 29th August, 1863, to ascertain the actual 
vertical pressure exerted by the various natures of Field and Siege Artillery, when 
passing over Pontoon Bridges; and also whether the maximum pressure is 
occasioned by the Horses or Carriage. By Lieut.-Col. G. Shaw, B.A., Assistant 
Superintendent, Loyal-Carriage Hepartment. 
On the Yalidity of General Shrapnel’s claim to the Invention of Shells in which 
the true principle of Shrapnel fire was first enunciated and applied. By Captain 
Yivian Bering Majendie, B.A., Captain Instructor, Boyal Laboratory. 
Note on the Batio between the Forces tending to produce Translation and 
Botation in the Bores of Bifled Guns. By Captain Noble, late B.A. From 
Philosophical Magazine, September, 1863. 
Account of a preliminary trial of a 600-pr. 13*3 in. M. L. Wrought-iron, 10 
Grooved Shunt Armstrong Bifle Gun, under the direction of the O. S. Committee, 
Shoeburyness, 19th November, 1863. By Captain E. J. Bruce, B.A. 
From Shore Batteries on Elevated positions, to find the Histances of Objects at 
Sea, by the aid of the Armstrong Gun. By Captain A. W. Brayson, B.A. 
Some considerations respecting the Practical Yalue of Shells of the Shrapnel 
Class. By Captain Yivian Bering Majendie, B.A., Captain Instructor, Boyal 
Laboratory. 
