Abstract
IT is in the nature of things that one is more intensely critical of dictionaries than almost any other documentary material, so let it be said at once that the present volume is a remarkable achievement for a single author. He is well known as a lifelong student of ballistics, and, carefully avoiding the ground recently covered by other technical dictionaries and encyclopedias, has contrived to concentrate on ballistics and such sections of chemistry as explosives, war gases, and the elements, as have primary functions in war-time. Where desirable, extensive tables give the data in easily accessible form, with one dire exception: if one requires any of the mass of information which is given about an element, one is retarded by the time required to disentangle each item, since for each element the items run on. There are inevitably some obvious misprints in these masses of data. Much space is saved for useful information by a considerable series of contractions, which are listed separately.
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