[American.]
ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL.
April 20. Lessons of the Yalu.
April 27. Advantages of Double Turrets. Modern Warships. The Chinese Surrender.
May 25. Lessons of the Chino-Japanese War.
ARMY AND NAVY REGISTER.
May 4. More Excellent Armor.
May 25. Naval Small Arm Adopted.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
March. Constitution and List of Members.
THE AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.
April. Physical Reasons for Rapid Corrosion of Steel Boiler Tubes. Some Facts Relating to Certain Types of Water-tube Boilers. The Cruiser Cincinnati. Tests of the Pneumatic Guns.
May. Water Tube Boilers in the British Navy. Some Experiments on the Efficiency of Air Propellers.
AMERICAN CHEMICAL JOURNAL.
April. Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere, by Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R. S., and William Ramsay, F. R. S. On the Spectra of Argon, by William' Crookes, F. R. S., etc. The Liquefaction and Solidification of Argon, by K. Olszewski, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cracow. On the Atomic Weight of Argon, by Edward W. Morley.
The symbol A has been proposed for argon on the supposition that it is an element which is not definitely proven, its spectrum consisting of two distinct combinations of lines.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Volume XXVII., No. 1, 1895. Korea and the Koreans. The Mapping of New York State. Reports of a Conference on Geography. The United States Geological Survey in 1894.
CASSIER’S MAGAZINE.
May. The Telephone and Its Operation. Telegraphy as It Used to Be. American Coast Defense Mortars. A History of the Telephone.
ENGINEERING NEWS.
May 2. The Location of the Nicaragua Canal. Legal Electrical Units in the United States.
May 9. The French Aluminum Torpedo-boat
IRON AGE.
February 28. The Uehling and Steinbart Pneumatic Pyrometer. Reduced Harveyized Armor Plate.
March 7. The Great Gun Magnet Tests of Non-conducting Pipe Coverings.
March 14. The Higgins Plate Roller Bending Machine. March 21. The Bristol Recording Ampere Meter. Southern Coal Tests by the Navy Department. Electric Annealing of Armor Plate. Naval News.
April 11. The Carnegie Armor Plate Test.
The Navy Department at Washington has issued the following statement of the present condition of the new United States war vessels. The figures represent the percentage of completion: Amphitrlte, 99 per cent; Maine, 98 per cent.; Terror, 96 per cent.; Texas, 95 per cent.; Indiana, 93 per cent.; Massachusetts, 90 per cent.; Katahdin, 90 per cent.; Oregon, 89 per cent.; Puritan, 87 per cent.; Monadnock, 85 per cent.; Brooklyn, 42 per cent.; Iowa, 35 per cent.; Gunboat No. 7, 31 per cent.; Gunboat No. 9, 26 per cent., and Gunboat No. 8, 25 per cent. Since January 1 the Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Raleigh, Olympia, and Ericsson have been taken from the list of uncompleted ships. All have been commissioned and put into regular service except the Ericsson. The Amphitrlte will be commissioned next week, leaving but 14 naval vessels under construction.
April 25. The Sprague Electric Locomotive. Defects in Steam Boilers, III.
May 2. Captain Eardley-Wilmot on the United States Navy.
JOURNAL OF THE MILITARY SERVICE INSTITUTION.
March. Discipline: Its Importance to an Armed Force, and the Best Means of Promoting and Maintaining it in the U. S. Army. Preliminary Examination: West Point. The Place of Physical Training in the Military Service. The Royal Artillery College at Woolwich. The Infantry Drill Regulations Systematized and Simplified. Comment and Criticism. The Military Academy and the Education of Officers.
“One essential truth must be borne in mind, namely, that all educational institutions of the highest order are growths and not Minerva-like creations.”—[Prof. Charles W. Larned, U. S. M. A.]
“West Point does not educate anybody. That is impossible in four years at any liberal institution. What, from an educational standpoint, it does and successfully is to give the cadet the basis of an education.” —[First Lieut. W. E. Birkhimer, Adjutant, 3d U. S. Artillery.]
Range and Position Finding. The War between China and Japan.
May. A Paper on Military Libraries. The Relation of Hygiene to Military Efficiency. The Army Artillery Reserve. Training of the American Soldier. Results of Experimental Firing with the Service Rifle (Model of 1894). Battery Competitions for Gunners. The United States Marine Corps. Value of the Fire of Dismounted Cavalry. “The Right (or Left) Turn” of the Infantry Drill Regulations. Comment and Criticism. Reprints and Translations.
JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES CAVALRY ASSOCIATION.
March. High Explosives and Intrenching Tools in their Relation to Cavalry.
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE.
March. The Animal as a Prime Mover, Part III., by R. H. Thurston. Action of a Single Phase Synchronous Motor. Water Purification. Science in the Foundry.
April. The Redheffer Perpetual Motion Machine. The Rise and Progress of River and Harbor Improvement in the United States. The Atomic Weight of Tungsten. The Reduction of Alumina from a Thermo-chemical Standpoint.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING SOCIETIES.
January. Tests of Non-conducting Pipe Coverings.
SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY.
January. Theory of Electro-metallurgy.
THE UNITED SERVICE.
March. The Supply of the Armies of Frederick the Great and Napoleon. The Story of Alcatraz. Origin and Developments of Steam Navigation (continued).
April. The Supply, etc. (continued). Yesterday in Annapolis. Origin, etc.
May. The Supply, etc. (concluded). Origin, etc. (concluded).
[Foreign.]
ENGINEER.
No. 2042, February 15. Report on a Pumping Engine at Hornsey Sluice. Destruction of Chinese Warships at Wei-Hai-Wei. Priming and Governing Engines.
February 22. The New Elswick Eight-inch Quick-fire Gun.
March 1. Trial Trips of the Banshee and Contest. Electric Light Engines and Dynamos, S. S. Caledonia.
"It has a drum armature rotating between the poles of a vertical horseshoe magnet, and will give an output of 220 amperes at 105 volts when running at a speed of 220 revolutions per minute.”
March 8. The Utilization of Niagara. The Admiralty Distribution of Engineers in the Fleet.
March 15. The Navy Estimates. Static Friction.
March 29. The Battle-ships Magnificent and Charlemagne— a Comparison.
April 5. Elements of Force in a Warship (Inst Naval Architects).
April 12. First-Class Battle-ships and Bilge Keels.
“ To sum up, then, the bilge keel has proved itself to be an Instrument capable of reducing the extent of rolling from 50 to 70 per cent.; of accelerating the process of extinction of rolling sixfold; of Increasing the rolling period so as to enhance steadiness; of developing to its fullest extent the value of headway in assisting steadiness, and of reducing materially the tactical diameter in turning, as well as improving steering properties, whilst speed is uninjured and coal endurance not affected. The result of these experimental trials Is therefore phenomenally satisfactory.”
April 19. British Fuzes for Modem Guns.
ENGINEERING.
No. 1520, February 15. The New Nordenfelt Guns. The Pneumatic Pyrometer. The Cost of Vessels of the Naval Defense Act.
February 22. The New Nordenfelt Guns (continued).
March 1. The New Nordenfelt Guns (continued). The Naval Manoeuvres (1894).
March 8. The New Nordenfelt Guns (continued). Short Air-Space Dynamos. The Torpedo-boat Destroyers Rocket and Snark.
March 15. A Review of “Elementary Naval Tactics,” by Commander William Bainbridge-Hoff, U. S. Navy.
”The United States Navy is fortunate In possessing officers who are not merely good sailors and brave men, but are also acute and able thinkers, and have the power of expressing their Ideas In clear, concise and forcible language. The system of education in the American Navy is perhaps better adapted than our own for creating a corps of officers who will be men of thought as well as men of action; and one natural outcome of it is seen In the many erudite and exhaustive books and papers upon naval questions which come from the pens of American naval officers. Their literary work appears to be marked by more thoroughness, better balance and greater power of thought, analysis and expression than we In this country are accustomed to expect from naval authors.”
The New Nordenfelt Guns (continued). The Navy Estimates.
March 22. The New Nordenfelt Guns (continued). The New Spanish Cruiser Emperador Carlos V. The Navy in Parliament.
March 29. The New Nordenfelt Guns (continued).
April 5. Torpedo-boat Destroyers. Our Battle-ships (Notes on Further Experience with First-class Battle-ships), by Sir William White, Director of Naval Construction (British).
“The Resolution (without bilge keels), by orders from the Admiralty, had been purposely kept in very nearly the same condition of stability as the Repulse. Comparing the returns from these two ships, it appears that the Resolution on one occasion reached a maximum inclination to the vertical of 23 deg.; whereas the Repulse never exceeded 11 deg. The mean angles of oscillation were, of course, considerably below these maxima, probably about one-half. The Royal Sovereign and Empress of India were also in company. The condition of coal storage in these two ships at the time gave them greater stiffness and a quicker period, which, under the conditions of weather and sea, caused rather heavier rolling than in the Resolution.
In view of this experience, although the trial was limited and not representative of many conditions occurring at sea, it was decided to fit all the other ships of the class with bilge keels similar to those which had proved so effective in the Repulse. This work was completed for the ships of the Channel Squadron during their annual refit last summer; it has since been carried out in all the other ships of the class.
On the cruises of the Channel Squadron which have taken place since bilge keels were fitted there have been but few opportunities of obtaining proof of their practical value. So far as experience has gone, however, there Is a consensus of opinion amongst officers in command that rolling has been greatly reduced by the bilge keels.”
H. M. S. Bruizer.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.
March. Battles of Chillianwallah and Goojerat. The New Harbor at Biserta, with Plans.
April. Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet. Collapsible Boats and Pontoons for Military Purposes, by the Rev. E. L. Berthon. The Hydraulic Gun-mounting of French Ships.
MINUTES OP PROCEEDINGS OP THE INSTITUTION OP CIVIL ENGINEERS.
Volume CXIX., 1894-95, Part 1. The Machinery of Warships. Indian River Steamers. The Filtration of the Miiggel Lake Water Supply, Berlin.
PROCEEDINGS OP THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION.
February. A Method of Calculating the Probability of Coast Defense Fire. A Plea for Heavy Guns in Fortress Defense. Notes on German Manoeuvres.
March. The Story of the Civil War in America (A Review). General Bourbaki’s Campaign in January and February, 1871. The Resistance of the Air at High Velocities, by Captain Za-budski, Russian Artillery (Translated from the Russian).
Captain Zabudskl uses Krupp’s tables in his calculations to continue Mayevski’s laws.
With the metre and kilogramme as units:
[TABLE]
Where R is the radius of the cylindrical part of the projectile in metres, (δ is the density of the air during the experiment, and δ0 is the standard density of 1.206 kilogrammes per cubic metre.
Captain Zabudski calculates the values of his ballistic functions between 600 m. s. and 1000 m. s. by the equation q = 0.5091πRδ/(2δ0)v1.6; which is sufficiently approximate.
April. Coast Artillery in Action. Torpedo-boat Raids on Harbors.
STEAMSHIP.
May. The New First-Class Cruisers (British).
Provision is made for the commencement of four new first-class cruisers in the navy estimates for 1895-96. The principal dimensions are: Length between perpendiculars, 435 ft.; on water-line, 455 ft.; breadth, 69 ft.; mean draught with keel, 25 ft. 3 in.; displacement about 11,000 tons. The measured mile speed, natural draught, will be about 20 ½ knots.
THE UNITED SERVICE GAZETTE.
No. 3240, February 9. The Navy League. China and Japan. The Tactics of the Corean War, by Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb.
"The results of the Yalu battle were the same as that of the battle of the Nile. The Chinese had no business to send a great fleet on a secondary expedition. If competent to contend for the command of the sea, it might have been used for that purpose, and no other; if not competent, it ought to have been kept intact to make it more difficult for the Japanese to follow up with attacks upon territory.”February 16. China and Japan. What is a Sufficient Navy?
February 23. The Halpine Dirigible Torpedo. Naval Reserves.
March 2. The Naval Manoeuvres, 1894. How Can the Navy be Made Ready for War? Fighting on the Niger.
March 9. The Navy Estimates, I. The Army Estimates. Heavy Guns in Fortress Defense.
No provision Is made in the Navy estimates for the commencement of any new battle-ship In the coming financial year.
March 16. The Navy Estimates, II. Naval Policy. The Organization of the Navy for War.
March 23. The Royal Dock Yards; New Programme for Work. The Requisite Strength of the British Navy.
April 6. Our Strategic Position in the Mediterranean. The Chitral Expedition.
April 13. Warship Construction. Torpedo-boat Destroyers.
April 20. Messenger Pigeons in Connection with Coast Defense (a summary of the paper published in No. 72 of the Proceedings U. S. Naval Institute). The Fighting Coefficients of a Warship.
April 27. The Navy as the Empire’s Representative. The “Times” and the War Office.
May 4. The Navy Boiler of the Future. The “Times” and the War Office, II. J. H. G.
LE MONITEUR DE LA FLOTTE.
February 2. The New Minister of Marine, Vice-Admiral Besnard.
February 9. The Madagascar Transports.
February 16. The Re-establishment of the French Board of Admiralty. The Extra-Parliamentary Naval Committee.
February 23. The Creation of a List of Commands.
March 2. The Growing Importance of the German Navy.
March 9. Our Navy at Kiel.
March 16. French and English Battle-ships. The Naval Estimates.
March 23. The Discussion of the Navy Estimates.
March 30. Running Lights.
"The question of safety of navigation is one of daily recurrence, which recent disasters have only served to intensify. Rear-Admiral Galoche, in an article in the La Marine Frangaise, proposes a change which he thinks will tend to remedy the insufficiency of the existing running lights. In the proposed system the light at the masthead, instead of a sector of 10 points of white light on each side, will only have a white sector of 4 points, continued by a sector of 6 points of green light on the starboard side and a sector of 6 points of red light on the port side.
The immediate results of the use of this tri-color masthead light can be easily conceived. 1st. When a vessel sights another showing a white and colored light, the first will be inside of 45° of the other’s course, reckoning the bearing from right or left, according to the color of the side light. 2d. When in the presence of a vessel showing two lights of the same color one will find himself outside of the 45° of the route of the stranger and consequently in no danger of a collision. If, being in the first position, a manoeuvre is made which will bring out the lights of the second position, a feeling of safety will at once follow. If, on the contrary, finding oneself in the second position (i. e. with two lights of the same color in sight), a manoeuvre will bring in the white sector, it is presumable that the ships are approaching one another. Thus the simple use of a tri-color light, easy of construction and management, diminishes notably the sector of the possible routes of a ship in sight and gives the watch officer the means of reckoning these routes rapidly and de visu within far more restricted limits than with the white light.”
REVUE DU CERCLE MILITAIRE.
February 2. A Safety Device for Preventing Premature Firing (with sketches). Cavalry Confronted by the New Fire-arms. Long Distance Photography (with sketches) (continued).
February 9-16. The Japanese Army. The Thirteenth French Army Corps in the War of 1870. Long Distance Photography (ended).
February 23. The Lefebvre Carriages and the Madagascar Expeditionary Corps. Ice-shoeing of Horses in Sweden and Norway.
March 9. Madagascar: Its Geography, Climate, Population and Productions. The Lefebvre Conveyance, and the Madagascar Expeditionary Corps. The Thirteenth Army Corps in the War of 1870 (continued).
March 16-23. Medical Statistics of the French Army for 1892. Madagascar, etc. (continued). The Thirteenth Army Corps, etc. (continued).
March 30. The Holy City of Moukden. The Thirteenth Army Corps, etc. (continued).
REVUE MARITIME ET CODONIALE.
January. The Naval Battle of Yalu, according to the Latest French and Foreign Informations, by Lieut. Lephoy, of the French Navy. In what Consist our Armored Battle-ships, and their Worth. The Cruiser Volta in China and Tonkin (1883-85). Chemical and Micro-biological Researches in the Alterations and Protection of Common Metals in Salt Water. Prizes for the Best Works Published in the Review.
February. The First-class Torpedo-gunboats of the English Navy. A Report on the Process used for Detecting Fraud in Table Oils and in Oils used in Manufacture. A Study of the Modem Mounts for Heavy Ordnance. Geometry of Diagrams (continued).
SOCIÉTÉ DES INGÉNIEURS CIVILS.
January. Mechanical Traction of Boats on Canals. Electro-Magnetic Towing. A Study of Various Electric Plants in Switzerland and Savoy. Comparative Results of Electricity and Compressed Air in the Mechanical Traction of Tramways.
February. A New Process for Calculating the Strain Sustained by a Latticed Straight Beam Symmetrically Laden and Resting on Two Supports. Annual of 1895 (a supplement to the January number).
LE YACHT.
February 2. The End of the Flying Squadron.
"After giving this method of Instruction a two years’ trial the naval authority became convinced that Its advantages over the old method were not such as to justify its continuation at the greatly Increased cost.”
Union of the French Yachts: Admissions, Concessions of Flags, etc. Association Technique Maritime: Remarks on the Fire-boxes of Boilers (Daymard).
February 9. The Question of Transportation to Madagascar.
February 16. The Destruction of the Chinese Fleet (E. Weyl). Submarine Telegraphy.
February 23. The Question of Transports.
March 2. Commerce Destroyers (Privateer-cruisers) (E. Weyl). Electricity: Telegraphic Communications without an Intermediary Conductor (Em. Cohen).
March 9. The Question of Battle-ships. The Italian Torpedo-ram Umbria.
March 16. The English Navy Appropriations.
“The amount of the English Navy estimates for 1895-96 Is £18,880,021 ($91,379,301), an Increase of $6,741,045 over last year’s and an increase of about twenty-two and a half millions over the preceding year, besides a supplementary credit of $22,000,000 spent for the purchase of raw material and supplies In order to take advantage of the decline In market prices.
The total personnel afloat in 1895-96 will be 88,850 men, an increase of 5,450 over the present year, which has already an increase of over six thousand over the preceding one. The Increase of men is particularly noticeable in the number of machinists, firemen, etc., which is only natural in view of the enormous development of steam power. It may be thus seen that Great Britain, far from thinking of ever abandoning her supremacy of the sea, will at no distant date have an enormous navy so powerfully constituted as to defy the whole naval world combined.”
March 23. The Navy in the French Chamber of Deputies.
"In 1891 the High Council of the Navy fixed the composition of our fighting squadrons as follows: 24 armored battle-ships, 12 first-class cruisers; 12 second-class cruisers, 12 third-class cruisers, 4 supply-transports, 4 torpedo transport cruisers, 2 repair-shop cruisers, 12 cruisers or large torpedo despatch-boats, 40 seagoing torpedo-boats, 45 embarkable torpedo-boats, besides a number of coast defense vessels and a fleet for foreign stations. But in 1894 the High Council, presided over by M. Felix Faure, since elevated to the dignity of President of the Republic, decided that the Squadron of First Class Cruisers should be composed of armored cruisers, the number of which should be raised to twelve by the construction of six additional vessels of the type of the Dupuy-de-Lôme, with displacements of not more than 8000 tons, keeping in view (1) Radius of action; (2) Speed; (3) Offensive power, and, finally. Defensive Power. The number of second-class cruisers being now complete owing to the disrating of protected cruisers ranking at present as first-class, none will be built till 1904. Supply transports and repair-shop vessels are done away with. The seagoing torpedo-boats having proved Inefficient while accompanying squadrons, will be turned over to the mobile defenses as soon as the 220-ton boats are finished. Reductions are also made in the number of coast defense vessels, besides other secondary modifications of the original plans. This will involve an expenditure of about 214,200,000 francs, distributed over a period of nine years.”
Launching of the Spanish Armored Cruiser Carlos V., of 9235 Tons Displacement.
March 30. The Navy in the House of Commons (E. Weyl). The Bulb-keel. Launching of the Russian Imperial Yacht Standart.
RIVISTA DI ARTIGLIERIA E GENIO.
Volume I., January. Notes Relative to the Theory of the Resistance of Straight Beams Subjected to Longitudinal Pressure. Progress and Regress of the Infantry Rifle. On the Factors of Fire through Quadratic Resistance. On the Probability of Fire in Coast Artillery.
February. A Glance at the European Small Fire-arms.
In a lengthy article on the modern rifle, the writer states that no nation can boast of a weapon really superior to that of another, but still he thinks a preference may be given to the Mauser, Roumanian model of 1893, 6.5 mm. calibre. The general tendency to decrease the calibre of the gun has induced France, though possessing a superior weapon in the Lebel, to replace the latter by the Dauteteau rifle of 6 mm.
March. A Table of Fire (v. Fattori di tiro in the preceding Vol.). A Few Observations in Regard to the Manuals of Temporary Fortifications. The Characteristics of Coast Firing. The Actual State of the Question of Field Guns.
RIVISTA MARITTIMA.
Volume II., February. Erosion in Steam Boilers and Ship Bottoms. A History of the Italian Navy from the Time of Cosmo I. and his Immediate Successors. Coastwise Navigation in the Adriatic Sea.
The writer laments the fact that the coast trade of this pre-eminently Italian sea is practically carried on by Austrian shipowners.
REVISTA TECNOLÓGICO-INDUSTRIAL.
February. Analysis of the Flour of Commerce (ended). An Aluminum Torpedo-boat.
March. Something on Hydraulics. Inter-urban Telephones in Spain.
REVISTA MARITIMA BRAZILEIRA.
June, 1893—December, 1894. Reorganization of the Brazilian Navy.
January, 1895. Autobiography of a Whitehead Torpedo (v. preceding No.). Construction of Guns of the Armstrong System. Reorganization of the Brazilian Navy (continued). J. L.
ANNALEN DER HYDROGRAPHIE UND MARITIMEN METEOROLOGIE.
Annual Series XXIII., Volume i. Electrical Communication between Lightships and the Coast. (A Brief Description of Bed-well’s Patent Mooring Swivel.) Meteorological Phenomena on the East Coast of Africa. Description of the East Coast of Africa from the Mouth of Umba River to Ulenge Island. Sailing Directions for Moa Bay. Sailing Directions for Mansa Bay. The Approach to Para and the Channels of the Amazon. Extracts from the Latest Sailing Directions for Atshin, Sumatra. Petroleum Lights as Aids to Navigation. Some Observations on St. Rosalia, Gulf of California.
Minor Notes: Climate on the S. W. Coast of Africa; Meteorological Journals Received at the German Observatory in December, 1894.
Weather Report of the German Coast for December, 1894.
Volume II. Voyage from Apia to Singapore. Survey of the Harbor of Lindi, East Coast of Africa. Test of the Pintsch System of Gas-buoys. Review of the Weather in Germany during 1894. Criticism of V. Kurs’ Work on the Navigable Waterways of Germany. Barca Quebrada and Braxilito, Costa Rica.
Minor Notes: Meteorological Journals Received at the German Observatory during January, 1895. Weather Report for January, 1895.
DEUTSCHE HEERES-ZEITUNG.
January 30. To My Army—Address of Emperor William on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Franco-German War. Pioneer Regulations for the German Infantry. Strategical and Tactical Review of the Battle near Blumenau-Pressburg, July 22, 1866 (continued).
February 2. Mobilization of the Belgian Army. Strategical and Tactical Review, etc. (concluded).
February 6. French Cavalry Reserve and the Required Horses. Report of General Baratieri on the Capture of Cassala.
February 9. Military Service of the German Public School Teacher. Report of General Baratieri, etc. (concluded).
February 13. Naval Vessels Lost in 1894 (A Review).
February 16. Lecture of Emperor William before the German Military Society.
February20. Wealth in the German Army. Battle Tactics of Infantry Armed with Modem Arms.
February 23. Archduke Albrecht of Austria. Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
February 27. The Italian Army in Abyssinia. Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
March 2. Financial Aid to Officers Retiring from the German Army. Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
March 6. Progress of the German Navy in 1894. (A review of the vessels completed and of those laid down and in progress of construction.) Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
March 9-13. Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
March 16. The Armored Cruiser.
A brief description and comparison of the different types of this class of vessels built by the various naval powers, from which the writer considers that of the cruiser New York as the best type.
Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
March 20. Battle Tactics, etc. (continued).
MILITÄR WOCHENBLATT.
February 2. Armored Cruisers. (An argument in favor of this class of vessels for the German Navy.) The Mobilization of Two French Reserve Cavalry Regiments in October, 1894.
February 20. Pioneer Service of Infantry. A New Field Gun adopted in France.
February 23. Pioneer Service of Infantry (concluded). Contributions to the History of the Years 1847-4B (concluded).
March 6. The Movement of Field Artillery in Battle. The French Army Budget New Regulations for the Russian Transport Service in War.
March 9. The Movement of Field Artillery in Battle. The Riding School. Madagascar.
March 13. Madagascar (concluded).
March 20. Reorganization of the Italian Army.
March 27. Cavalry Divisions during Peace. Holland’s War on the Island of Lambok in 1894.
MITTHEILUNGEN AUS DEM GEBIETE DES SEEWESENS.
Volume XXIII., No. III. Defensive Naval Strategy (The Defense of the Coast), A Study. The Use of Torpedo Nets on Battle-ships. Modem Naval Tactics. The French Battle-ship Brennus. The English Battle-ship Majestic. The English Torpedo-depot Vulcan. Basius’ Bateau Rouleur. The English Navy. The English Torpedo-boat Destroyers Boxer and Lynx. The English Sloops Alert and Torch. The German Battle-ship Ersatz Preussen.
This vessel will shortly be laid down at the navy yard, Wilhelms-haven, and it will be an improved Kurfiirst Friederich Wilhelm. It will require four years to build her. Harvey armor will be used instead of nickel steel armor. Estimated cost, 20,000,000 marks, of which sum 14,120,000 marks is estimated for the hull and machinery, 5,000,000 marks for the armament and 512,000 marks for the torpedo outfit.
New Common Shell Adopted in the English Navy. Contrivance to Destroy Torpedo Nets. The Use of Aluminum for the Bottom Plating of Ships. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy of the United States. Another Plan to Reach the North Pole. Coaling Men-of-War.
Tables giving the rate of coaling from lighters and vessels alongside and when coaling alongside a wharf or mole.
Torpedo-boats for the German Navy.
Four new boats have been recently laid down at Elbing. They will be of the most modern type.
Volume IV. The Coast Defense Ships Monarch, Wien, and Budapest of the Austrian Navy.
The first has just been laid down at Pola and the last two at Trieste.
The Bow and Stem of Modern Racing Yachts. The Loss of the Elbe. Foreign Navies in 1894. (A review of the progress made in the various navies during the year.) A Project to Drain the Zuider-See. The Effect of Bilge Keels. The French Battleships Magenta and Hoche. Reconstruction of the Italian Battleship Dandolo. The Russian Armored Cruiser Rjurik. The French Navy. The Monterey. The Necessity of Replacing Wood with some Non-combustible Material in Modern Ships of War. H. O.
REVIEWERS AND TRANSLATORS.
Lieutenant Hugo Osterhaus, U. S. Navy.
Lieutenant J. H. Glennon, U. S. Navy.
Professor Jules Leroux.