COLBURN’S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE, Oct. 1880. (Naval Articles). Jean de Vienne. The French galleys of the eighteenth century by Mod. Dir. E. Shippen. Progress of torpedo warfare, by Lt. Comd’r. F. M. Barber.
November. Curiosities of naval literature. The naval war of 1819, with tile U. S.
December. Capt. Bedford Pim, R. N. and Sir E. J. Reed, K. C. B. The Naval war of 1812, with the U. S. (concl’d.) French field artillery.
JOURNAL OF TIIE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION, NO. CVII. (Naval articles). Discussion on the naval prize essay, subject, “Naval Tactics on the Open Sea, with the existing Typos of Vessels and Weapons.” Torpedo boat tactics, see p. 400, present number proceedings. Occasional Papers. Modern field artillery. The question of repeating rifles. Reviews. Die tachymetrie. Lo navisphere, instrument nautique.
MITTUEILUNGEN AUS DEM GEBIETE DES SEEWESENS. VOL. VIII. NO. X. The durability of boilers. The maneuvers in Portsmouth harbor. The Russian Yacht Livadia and her type for international communication. New patents. Austro-Hungarian Merchant marine, Jan. 1, 1880. The new English breech loading cannon. A new explosive for shells. Gun carriage experiments on board the Neptune. Fluid state of pressed steel. Torpedo boats for the Russian Navy. The Portuguese torpedo boat Fulminanto. The steamer Anthracite. The Russian cruiser Jaroslaw. New gunboat for the Norwegian Navy. An hydromotor ship. The Hock motor. The Destruction of the Loa. Literary notices. Bibliography. Hydrographic notices.
Nos. XI. and XII. Competitive trials of 28 c.in. Steel shell of Hirschwang, Krupp, Newberg, Mariazell, and Innerberg, at Pola, Sept. 1880. A resume of the “Elements do Tacticue Navale” of Vice-Admiral Penhont. The Italia. The chronometer, researches from actual observations. The Belleville boiler. The latest naval and coast-defense guns of Krupp. Trial of a 25 m. m. Palmkrantz, (Nordenfelt) mitrailleuses in Spain. The construction of magazines on board of British men-of-war. Hopfgartner’s apparatus to determine the course of an approaching vessel. The latest type of electric machine (Gramme’s system). Literary notices. Hydrographic notices.
THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE, Oct. 1880. Recent development of the Chinese Marino. Compasses in iron ships. The rule of the road at sea. The port of Chittagong. The circumnavigation of S. America. Liquid fuel for steamers. Darien Canal. Marine Inventions, etc. etc.
November. Submarine) telegraph cables. The question of the load-line. The “Anthracite”. Compasses in iron ships (con’td). Coal and (look accommodations in New Zealand. Glasgow to Rangoon. Marine inventions, etc.
December. British trade in the Pacific. Torpedo vessels. Compasses in iron ships (concl’d.) Trinity House buoy marking system. Notes from consular reports. Nautical assessors. Marine Inventions, etc.
REVISTA GENERAL DE MARINA, Oct. 1880. Notes on electricity (cont’d).—Laying the cable between Hong Kong and the Philippines, (cont’d). The Sulu Archipelago, (cont’d). The late earthquake in the Philippines. Voyage of the “Marques del Duero” to Siam and Annam. Naval operations on shore (cont’d). Flexible stool cables. Notices. Bibliography. Orders.
November. Notes on electricity (cont’d). The Sulu Archipelago (cont’d). Voyage of the “Marques del Ducro” to Siam and Annam (cont’d). Naval operations on shore (concl’d). The law of storms. The “Almirante Brown”. Notices. Bibliography. Orders.
December. Notes on electricity (cont’d). The Sulu Archipelago (cont’d). New torpedo boats. Voyage of the “Marques del Duero” to Siam and Annam (cont’d). Relative importance of broadside and fore-and-aft fire, in naval tactics. The frigate Sagunto. Notices. General Index. Orders.
REVUE MARITIME ET COLONIALE. Vol. GO. The mouths of the Mississippi and Capt. Eads’ jetties. The merchant marine of England (contd). Discussion in the Italian Chamber of Deputies upon the naval appropriation bill for 1880. Note on stability. The penal, agricultural colony of St. Laurent, in 1878. The port of Cette. The Academy Royal of Marine, from 1771 to 1774. Lorient arsenal-royal (16118-1703). Nossibé Island. Chronicle. The new Swedish men-of-war. The personnel of the Italian navy. The German naval appropriation bill for 1880-1. The war fleet of Japan in 1880. The Cunard steamship Gallia. Now mode of boiler construction. Reviews. Bibliography.
The English Colonies. The naval war between Peru and Chili. Lorient arsenal royal, (1608-1703) cont’d. Chapter in the history of Martinique, 1814 to 1818. China and Japan. The latest improvements in naval engines and boilers. Account of the light off Angamos. Reviews. Bibliography.
China and Japan, cont’d. The English Colonies, cont’d. The grounding and rescue of the “Rhino”. Docking facilities in the extreme East. The scientific corps of the ancient navy (cont’d). Improvements in the steering compass. Cotemporary naval history (1815-53). Reviews. Bibliography.
RIVISTA MARITTIMA. October, 1880. Our urgent need of vessels. The Italia and her construction. Rig for cruising vessels. Nordonskiölà's Arctic Expedition, report made to the Minister of Marine, by Sub-Lieut. G. Bove, hydrographer of the expedition. Engines for ships of war. The Italian fisheries. The Yarrow torpedo boat, purchased for the Italian Navy. Report of Chevalier R. Angley, Italian Consul at Rangoon, on Italian commerce. Heraldry of the sea, translated from the English of J. IC. Laughton, Naval Instructor at Greenwich. A ship of the Vikings. Chronicle. The Board of Admiralty and the Council of Naval Construction in England. The Atlanta. Now determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat. Torpedo boats of different nations. Fleet attached to the revenue service of Russia. The now magazine guns; Nordenfelt, Hotchkiss. Neumayer’s indicator of compass-deviations. Colombian Navy. Italian commerce at Callao, in 1879. Importance of coal depots in Italian ports. Now voyage of Exploration of Nordonskiöld.
Bibliography. Various Publications. Ships in commission.
November.—The tactical weapon in future Hoot engagements. Military ports; Surabaya. Report of the Commission upon the bursting of the Duilio’s gun. The Italian fisheries. The use of ocean steamers in war, translated from the Jour. R. N. Service Institution. Proceedings of the Congress of Italian ship-owners at Camogli. Now form of log. Naval promotion. Heraldry of the Sea. Chronicle.—The Russian licet in the Pacific. Chinese licet. Conclusions of the Commission on the experiments upon the 38-ton gun of tins Thunderer. Experiments in Holland with perforating projectiles. Torpedo boats. Italian commerce with Egypt. Bulletin op the Hydrographic office. Bibliography. Various Publications. Transfers of officers. Ships In Commission.
December. The question of vessels. Cruise in the corvette Vettor Pisani, by II. It. II. Prince Tomaso of Savoy, commanding. The now constructions in the Italian navy. Cruiso in the transport Europe. The need of the study of political and social science among officers of the Navy. Military ports; Bocehe di Cattaro. Ventilation of ships. The Italian fisheries. The War in South America. Decay of the Italian Merchant marine, and its remedy; Resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of Palermo. The Livadia. Firing at elevated points on the sea coast (trans. from the Mittheilungen a. d. Gobiete d. Seewesens). Antonio Pigefotta, and the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vice-Adm. Jurien do la Gravière’s “ Marine dos Anciens," a critical essay. Chronicle. The question of a Merchant Marine. The Austrian Naval estimates. Navies of Greece and of Turkey. Argentine Navy, the Almirante Brown. Proposed strength of the Danish fleet. The Baden, German corvette. German armored gunboats. Launch of the Tonnant. New French iron-clads. Armament of the Colossus. Russian torpedo boat Launch of the Danish torpedo-boat Wordonskiold. Portuguese torpedo-boat Fulminante. Trial of the Anthracite. Experiments on board tile Serapis. The self-moving torpedo-boat of Col. Coda-Canati. Torpedoes in Germany. Dangors in the use of the electric light. Krupp machine gun. Nordenfeldt gun. The English 100-ton guns. Experiments at Portsmouth. Shoos used in the German Navy. Gorman Naval Stations. Dassori’s method of loading grain ships. Italian vessels in the port of New York. The tidal-wave and earthquake. The Jeannette expedition.
Sebastopol as a naval station. The Bay of Assab. Physical geography of the Polar Sea. Sponge-fishery on the Barbary coast. Libraries of Europe. The Rescue of the Yacht Pandora. Various Publications. Transfers of Officers. Ships in Commission.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
American Geographical Society, Bulletin No. 5 of 1879.
American Institute of Mining Engineers, Pamphlet No. XV. and Vol. No VIII.
American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions. Oct., Nov., Dec., 1880. Association Parisienne d’ Appareils à Vapeur. Bulletin No. 6, of 1879.
Franklin Institute Journal, Nov., Dec., 1880.
Military Service Institution of the U. S., Journal No. 8, and Catalogue.
Royal United Service Institution, Journal No. CVII., and Catalogue.
Socicté des Ingénieurs Civils, Mé, Sept., Oct., Nov., 1880.