A Study on Fighting Ships, by K ...

Translated from the French ("Le Yacht") by Professor Jules Leroux, U.S. Naval Academy
October 1888
The late controversy between distinguished officers of the service has given the naval question great prominence in France. This interest is, besides, increased by the disquieting rumors incessantly arising in ...

Discussion: Naval Administration

By Rear-Admiral S. B. Luce. U.S.N.
October 1888
Rear-Admiral E. Simpson.—Admiral Luce has given us a useful resume of Naval Administration, and in that division of his paper where he writes under the head of "Board of Navy ...

Notes on the Literature of Explosives

By Charles E. Munroe
October 1888
No. XVIII.In November last, at Sandy Hook, in the presence of the Army-Ordnance Board, three rounds were fired with shell charged with insensitive nitro-glycerine, according to the method of S ...

Professional Notes

October 1888
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Book Notices

October 1888
Catalogue of the Exhibit of the Navy Department at the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, 1888. Lieutenant Richard Rush, U. S. Navy Representative. Printed by direction ...

Bibliographic Notes

October 1888
AMERICAN CHEMICAL JOURNAL.Vol. X., No. 4, July, 1888.E. H. Keiser has determined the atomic weight of oxygen by combustion of hydrogen occluded by palladium. He obtains the figures 15.949. H ...

Special Notice

October 1888
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRIZE ESSAY, 1889.A prize of one hundred dollars and a gold medal is offered by the Naval Institute for the best Essay presented, subject to the following rules:Competition ...

Notice

October 1888
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