COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY H. G. Dresel,

Sec'y and Treas., U. S. Naval Institute.

PRESS OF THE FRIEDENWALD CO.

CONTENTS.

NAVAL APPRENTICES, INDUCEMENTS, ENLISTING, AND TRAINING. THE
SEAMAN BRANCH OF THE NAVY. By Ensign Ryland D. Tisdale,
U. S. N.,
Discussion:

Rear-Admiral Stephen B. Luce, U. S. N., 295.-Lieutenant W.
Winder, U. S. N., 302.-Lieutenant A. F. Fechteler, U. S. N., 304.
-Lieutenant W. B. Fletcher, U. S. N., 305.-Lieutenant W. L.
Rodgers, U. S. N., 306.-Commander F. W. Dickins, U. S. N.,
306.-Commander J. F. Merry, U. S. N., 308.-Commander C. F.
Goodrich, U. S. N., 310.-Lieutenant C. H. Harlow, U. S. N., 312.
ELECTRICITY IN NAVAL LIFE. By Lieutenant B. A. Fiske, U. S. N.,
NAVAL WAR COLLEGE. BY Hon. William McAdoo, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy,
SHRINKAGES (APPLYING CLAVARINO'S EQUATIONS). By Lieutenant J.
H. Glennon, U. S. N., . .

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THE DUDLEY POWDER-PNEUMATIC GUN. By Howard P. Elwell, Asso-
ciate Member U. S. Naval Institute,
DISCUSSION OF "THE ORGANIZATION, TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE OF THE
NAVY PERSONNEL AS VIEWED FROM THE SHIP." (See No. 77.)
P. A. Engineer Walter F. Worthington, U. S. N., 471.-Lieutenant
W. F. Fullam, U. S. N., 474.

DISCUSSION OF "SPEED CONTROL IN MODERN STEAMERS." (See No. 77.)
R. H. Thurston, Director Sibley College, 481.-Horace See, 484.
PROFESSIONAL NOTES,

Notes on the Care of Rapid-Fire Guns and Mounts.-New Device for Sailing Ships.-The Bazin Disc Wheel Steamboat.-To Prevent Collisions at Sea.-Wounds by the Bullets of Modern Rifles.Armor Tests.-Ships of War.

BOOK NOTICES AND BOOKS RECEIVED,

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527

NOTICE.

Further discussions of articles in the present number are

requested. They will be published in the next number of the Proceedings.

MOTTO" However small thy world may be,

Do thou but lead it right;

Thy work for good let all men see,

Although that work be slight."

-[From Schiller as translated by Major E. Gunter, S. E. D., from the Militär Wochenblatt.]

SUBJECT: "NAVAL APPRENTICES, INDUCEMENTS, ENLISTING, AND TRAINING. THE SEAMAN BRANCH OF THE NAVY.”

By ENSIGN RYLAND D. TISDALE, U. S. Navy.

INTRODUCTORY.

During the last few years, several valuable essays have been written by our naval officers on the subjects of "Naval Training," "Naval Training and Discipline," "Enlistment and Training of Seamen," "The Training Service," etc., and the discussions thereon have been quite full and varied. It, however, appears that the subject of this article has been left pretty much where it stood. The main points of these essays seem to be