Notes of Military Interest for 1901

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War Department. Adjutant General's Office (Military Information Division) No.XXXVI  Notes of Military Interest for 1901 (January 1902); 296 pages, 64 illus.  Price 35.00  {Item No.575} [Note we only sell the part of the manual concerned with Ordnance: Pages 80-297, and the Bibliography 439-511] [Compiled and arranged by Captain E.A.Edwards, 25th Infantry; Captain J.S. Herron, 2nd Cavalry; First Lt. H.B.Ferguson, Corps of Engineers; and Second Lt. R.S. Clark, 9th Infantry]

I. Budgets

II. Organization

III. Field Artillery; 38 pages, 11 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.22200}

• Introduction; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22201} [General description of a what is a Field Gun and their general state of development]
• Austria-Hungary; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22202} [Includes: General notes, Howitzers]
• France; 4 pages, 2 pages of illus.  Price 1.00. {Item No.22203} [The article and illustrations are on the French 7.5 cm Rapid fire Field Gun 1897, or "French 75"]
• Germany; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22204} [Includes: General notes, Field Howitzers]
• Great Britain; 2 pages, 1 table  Price .50 {Item No.22205} [Includes: General notes, In South Africa, Pompom, Heavy Artillery, Mountain Howitzers]
• Italy; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22206} [Includes: General notes, The Field Gun, Heavy Artillery, Mountain Guns]
• Russia; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22207} [Includes: General note only]
• Table A - Field Artillery; 4 pages of tables  Price .50 {Item No.22208} [Includes: Ordnance details on the field artillery of various countries]
• Argentina; 1/2 page  Price .50 {Item No.22209} [General notes only]
• Belgium; 1/8 page  Price .50 {Item No.22210} [General note only]
• Denmark; 1/8 page  Price .50 {Item No22211} [General note only]
• Holland; 1/4 page  Price .50 {Item No.22212} [General notes only]
• Japan; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22213} [Includes: General notes, Gun, Ammunition, Personnel]
• Mexico; 4 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22214} [Includes: General notes, 7-centimeter mountain gun (System Mondragon): The Gun, Breech mechanism, Transportation, Rapidity of fire]
• Norway; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22215} [General notes only]
• Spain; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22216} [Includes: Krupp, Schneider & Co., Saint Chamond and Vickers Sons & Maxim purchase notes]
• Sweden; 2 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22217} [On Krupp 7.5 mm Field Gun with illustration]
• Switzerland; 4 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22218} [Includes: General notes, Description of the material selected by the Commission (7.5 cm Model 1899 designed by Krupp modified by the Swiss)(originally a Krupp model 100): Gun, Breech mechanism, Carriage, Ammunition supply, The Limber]
• The Boer Field Gun; 2 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22219}
• The Darmancier and Dalzon System (Saint Chamond); 8 pages, 2 plates of illus.and photograph  Price 1.00 {Item No.22220} [Includes: 7.5 cm Field Gun, Model 1900: Gun, Carriage, Ammunition supply; 10.5 cm Field Howitzer, Model 1900; Mountain Artillery: 7 cm Gun, 7.5 cm Gun, 8 cm Mortar]
• The Krupp Rapid-Fire Field Guns, Model 1901; 8 pages, 2 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22221} [Includes: The Field Gun: The Gun, The Cradle, The Carriage, The Mountain Gun] [1 page has a small data table on the various Field artillery discussed in the this section]

IV. Machine Guns; 36 pages, 21 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.22222}

• General; 8 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.22223} [Includes: Descriptions and Comments on Galting, Pompom, Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, Reffye Machine Gun, Palmcrantz Machine Gun, Gardner Machine Gun, Maxim Machine Gun, Skoda Machine Gun, Nordenfelt Machine Gun, Colt Machine Gun]
• Austria-Hungary; 4 pages, 2 illus.(Skoda Machine Gun)  Price 1.00 {Item No.22224}
• Belgium; 2 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.22225} [Includes: Mostly notes on Hotchkiss Machine Gun]
• Denmark; 1/2 page  Price .50 {Item No.22226}
• France; 2 pages, 4 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22227} [Hotchkiss machine gun]
• Germany; 3 pages, 4 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22228} [Maxim machine gun]
• Great Britain; 6 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22229} [Maxim machine gun]
• Italy; 2 pages, 1 organizational table  Price .50 {Item No.22230} [Gardner Gun]
• Japan; 1/2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22231} [Maxim machine gun]
• Mexico; 1/2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22232} [Colt and Maxim machine guns]
• Norway; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22233} [Maxim and Hotchkiss machine guns]
• Russia; 1 page, 1 organizational table  Price .50 {Item No.22234} [Maxim machine gun]
• Sweden; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22235} [Maxim and Hotchkiss machine guns]
• Switzerland; 6 pages, 2 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22236} [Maxim machine gun]
• United States of America; 1/2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22237} [Number tested, but Non adopted]
• Various; 1 line  Price .50 {Item No.22238} [Concerning Chile and Ecuador]

V. Small Caliber Rifles; 16 pages, 8 pages of tables   Price 2.00 {Item No.22239}

• Table C - Small Caliber Rifles; 8 pages of tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22240} [Rifle data table of each country]
• Austria-Hungary; 1 paragraph  Price .50 {Item No.22241}
• Canada; 1 paragraph  Price .50 {Item No.22242}
• France; 1/2 page  Price .50 {Item No.22243} [The new Lamacchia Rifle]
• Germany; 1/2 page   Price .50 {Item No.22244} [Automatic rifles for Germany]
• Great Britain; 10 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.22245} [New model of Lee-Metford Rifle, Improvement of the Lee-Metford Rifle, Carbines for Infantry Officers (the Boers were noting British officers by their lack of a rifle and picking them off), The Ross Straight-Pull Magazine Rifle (6 pages on the subject), The Harris Rifle magazine] 
• Greece; 1 paragraph   Price .50 {Item No.22246}
• Italy; 1/2 page   Price .50 {Item No.22247} [The Italian Service Rifle: Mannlicher-Carcano type]
• Japan; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22248} [Murata Rifle]
• Persia; 1/2 page  Price .50 {Item No.22249} [Martini-Henry Rifle by way of arms smuggling]
• Portugal; 1 paragraph   Price .50 {Item No.22250}
• Switzerland; 1 pages   Price .50 {Item No.22251} [The new short rifle, 1899-1900 for auxiliary troops, A new Swiss magazine rifle]]

VI. Automatic Pistols; 14 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22252}

• Table D - Comparative table of automatic pistols; 1 page data table   Price .50 {Item No.22253}
• Introduction; 1 page   Price .50 {Item No.22254} [General notes]
• Pistols with Mechanism not locked; 5 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.22255} [Bergmann model 1896, Mannlicher model 1894, Browning]
• Pistols with the bolt rigidly locked before discharge and with movable barrel; 4 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.22256} [Mauser pistol, Mannlicher model 1896, Bergmann pistol model 1897]
• Pistols with a fixed barrel and in which the breech mechanism is locked at the moment of discharge; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.22257}

VII. Explosives; 11 pages  Price 2.00 {Item No.22258} [Includes: This section is concerned with smokeless powder, Powders used by different nations, Cordite, Ballistite, Pyocolldion, B.N.Powder, Schultze powder, E.C.powder]

VIII. Ammunition Supply; 21 pages, 11 tables  Price 3.00 {Item No.22259}

• Austria-Hungary; 4 pages, 1 table  Price .50 {Item No.22260} [Includes: Small Arm ammunition, Field Guns, Infantry, Artillery, Ammunition parks]
• France; 5 pages, 1 table  Price .50 {Item No.22261} [Includes: Small Arms, Field Guns, General Rules, Infantry, Artillery]
• Germany; 5 pages, 2 tables  Price .50 {Item No.22262} [Includes: Small Arms, Field Guns, Infantry, Field Artillery and Horse Artillery]
• Great Britain; 5 pages, 2 tables   Price .50 {Item No.22263} [Includes: Small Arms, Infantry, Artillery]
• Italy; 2 pages, 2 tables   Price .50 {Item No.22264} [Includes: Small Arms, Field Artillery]
• Russia; 4 pages, 2 tables   Price .50 {Item No.22265}
• Ammunition Columns; 1 page, 1 table  Price .50 {Item No.22266} [Flying parks, Ammunition Carried by the soldier]

IX. Mechanical Transportation; 21 pages, 3 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.22267} [Includes: General notes, British war office trials of military self propelled wagons, 11 lorries tested: Messrs, Folden & Sons steam lorry; Thrornycroft steam wagon No.6; Thrornycroft official No.7; Milne 5-ton war lorry Straker military system steam lorry; description of the results of the tests]

X. Carrier Pigeons; 11 pages  Price 2.00 {Item No.22268} [Includes: General notes, especially on the use of pigeons in Europe, and for various purposes; Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey]

XI. Miscellaneous Notes; 55 pages, 4 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.22269}

• Beliguim; 2 pages   Price .50 {Item No.22270} [Includes: Trials with folding Bicycles, Carrier Pigeons]
• China; 1 page   Price .50 {Item No.22271} [Includes: A Surgeon's observations on wounds in the Chinese War]
• France; 7 pages, 1 table   Price 1.00 {Item No.22272} [Includes: The Recruit contingent for 1900, Military horse tournaments, Cyclist companies, New Infantry drill regulations, Carrier pigeons, Carrier-pigeon service, Creation of a school of Engineers at Algiers, Regimental Infantry schools instituted, A New military school, Crossing streams, Crossing rivers]
• Germany; 8 pages   Price 1.00 {Item No.22273} [Includes: Crossing a river by swimming by an infantry regiment, Firing at a balloon, Field equipment of the Infantry, New equipment of the German expeditionary corps to China, Civil dress of officers, School for Cavalry telegraphers, New military technical school, Signaling, Transportion of men in case of mobilization, New tendencies in the German Army]
• Great Britain; 17 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22274} [Includes: Chart of South Africa to illustrate the progress of Lort Kitchener's blockhouse system, The blockhouse system in South Africa, Cyclists fro South Africa, The Cyclist Infantry operations at Aldershot, New standards of height of recruits, War dogs, Water cart, Carrier pigeons, War Office adminstration - New order in council, Supplies and transports of the English army in South Africa, British armored train use in campaign against the Boers]
• Italy; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22275} [Includes: Winter exercises of the Alpine troops, New training of infantry, New equipment and armament of cavalry]
• Japan; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22276} [Includes: Army officers abroad, Use of Bicycles in the Army]
• Mexico; 2 pages, 1 table  Price .50 {Item No.22277} [Includes: Daily rations of the Mexican soldier while on Garrison duty, Petards for the use of the Mexican Cavalry]
• Russia; 18 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22278} [Includes: Prize fencing in the Cavalry, Training of officers in military ballooning, Bicycle for Sanitary troops, Creation of a Cadet Corps and Preparatory school, Study of Hindustani in the Army, Study of Oriental languages in the Corps of Officers, Oriental Institutions, Construction of Forts along the Railway inh Eastern Asia, The Summer exercises (Hunts) of the Officers' cavalry school held at Postavy, Cavalry crossing a river by swimming, Marching maneuvers, Mobilization experiment in the Caucasus, Winter marches in Siberia, Instructions concerning military canteens and stores]
• Servia; 1 page   Price .50 {Item No.22279} [The Great General Staff]
• Turkey; 3 pages   Price .50 {Item No.22280} [Includes: Admission of officers to the Great General Staff, Translation of the Treatises of the German Army, Fortifications and Engineers, Obligatory military service for Nomanic tribes of Asiatic Turkey]

XII. Maneuvers

XIII. Bibliography; 73 pages  Price 8.00 {Item No.22282} [Index of Special Military Subjects treated in various books, pamphlets, and periodicals received in the Military information division during 1901]

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