THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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Report of an Experiment carried on by the Ordnance Select Committee, at 
Shoeburyness, 28th November, 1864, to test shot made of various kinds of steel, 
fired from 68-pr. and 100-pr. smooth-bored guns. Communicated by the Ordnance 
Select Committee. 
Armstrong’s (C) Percussion fuze, Dyer’s pattern. Ry Captain Yivian Dering 
Majendie, R.A., Captain Instructor, Royal Laboratory. 
Report of an Experiment carried on at Shoeburyness, on the 16th December, 
1864, and 5th and 6th January, 1865, by the Ordnance Select Committee. Com¬ 
municated by the Secretary Ordnance Select Committee. 
4. Library .—The books have been thoroughly re-arranged, and a new 
catalogue has been formed; the books of reference are now in the cases in the 
Reading Room, and a separate catalogue for these books has been made. 
Eor this useful work the Committee are much indebted to the Sub-Com¬ 
mittee, who, as stated in the last Report, were formed for the purpose. 
The expenditure under the head of Library is exceptionally large owing to 
the outlay for binding, which was found necessary when the books were 
re-arranged. 
The following list contains a statement of the books, plans, &c., pur¬ 
chased and presented, and the Committee desire to record their sincere 
thanks for the valuable addition which has been made to the Library 
through the liberal kindness of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State 
for War, in presenting to the Institution a copy of Lieut.-General E. de 
Todleben's work, “ Defense de Sebastopol,” and Atlas. 
The Committee have arranged for an exchange of publications with the 
Royal Geographical Society. 
The sale of War Office Photographs has been very great, exceeding 1200 ; 
lithographs of laboratory stores are now obtainable, price 9d. a sheet, and 
lists of both photographs and lithographs, corrected to the end of March, 
have been sent to Members. An alteration which has been made by the 
War Department, in issuing these articles as stores, whereby much extra 
work is entailed, has compelled the Committee to limit the sale through 
the Institution to Members only. 
Bools purchased, 
vols. 
Militarische Werke ..... 6 
Percy’s Metallurgy. Iron and Steel . 1 
Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Regulation and 
Distribution of Prize Money. 1 
Elementary Treatise on Recent and Eossil Shells. By S. P. Woodward. 1 
The Nature-printed British Perns . . 3 
Useful Metals, and their Alloys . 1 
Goodwin’s Course of Mathematics ... 1 
Life of General Sir Charles Napier. 4 
Life of General Sir William Napier . 2 
Drayson’s Surveying and Sketching. 5 
Experiments on Wrought-iron and Steel. By D. Kirkaldy .. 1 
Supplement aux Tables D’Integrates Definies . 1 
Royal Warrants, Circulars, General Orders, and Memoranda, from August 1856 
to July, 1864 . 1 
