PRESIDENT.REAR-ADMIRAL JOHN RODGERS.VICE-PRESIDENT.REAR-ADMIRAL G. B. BALCH.SECRETARY.LIEUTENANT C. BELKNAP.CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.PROFESSOR C. E. MUNROE.TREASURER.CHIEF-ENGINEER JAMES P. SPRAGUE.COMMITTEE ON PUIU.ICATIONS.LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER P. F. HARRINGTON.LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER C. M. THOMAS.LIEUTENANT E. D. TAUSSIG.Presidents of the Naval ...

LIST OF MEMBERS.501.April, 1881.(Notice—The Proceedings will be sent to the addresses herein given, until information is received to the contrary. To prevent the loss of numbers, the ...

Chief Engineer Harman Newell. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, Sept. 22, 1849. Office engineer-in- chief and coast survey duty, 1849—52. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, Feb. 26, 1851 ...

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.Mr. President, and Members of the Institute:—In accordance with the custom established, I believe, at the last annual meeting, I have the honor to submit the ...

U. S. Naval Academy.Annapolis, Jan’y 7th, 1881.Gentlemen:The enclosed report is respectfully submitted of the receipts and expenditures of the Institute from Jan. 7th, 1880, to Jan. 7th, 1881, showing a ...

The construction of war ships has within the last forty years undergone many changes; among these have been the abandonment of sails as a sole means of propulsion, and the ...

I consider it a great honor to be connected in any way with the investigation of this great river of the ocean, and it will give me pleasure to lay ...

"Aut Caesar, aut nullus." In the treatment of the subject proposed for competition, there are two radically different courses that may be pursued. By the first, which may not inaptly ...

The Effect of Great Cold Upon Magnetism.An investigation upon the magnetic condition of steel and upon the magnetic permeability of iron is now being made in the Physical Laboratory ...

"In via virtute via nulla.'' Mr. President and Gentlemen:—The attention of this Institute has been invited to the naval defense of our country. At a time when public sentiment, as ...

The following description of the temporary repairs made to the broken cranks of the U. S. S. Pensacola, by Passed Assistant Engineer Geo. W. Stivers, U. S. N., is interesting ...

Notices and reviews of professional publications may be inserted under this heading, provided a copy to be deposited in the library of the Institute is sent to the Corresponding Secretary ...

ARMY AND NAVY MAGAZINE, Jan., 188k (Naval articles). The Russian Navy, the story of the cruisers. Naval artillery. The De Bay propellor.March, 1881. The Russian fleet in Central Asia.COLBURN’S UNITED ...

American Geographical Society. Bulletin No. 2 of 1880.American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Jan., Feb., 1881, and List of members.American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Papers read at First Annual Meeting ...

A Prize of one hundred dollars and a gold medal of the value of fifty dollars is offered by the Naval Institute for the best essay presented subject to the ...