Animal mechanism : a treatise on terrestrial and aerial locomotion / by E.J. Marey.

  • Marey, Etienne-Jules, 1830-1904.
Date:
1874
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal mechanism : a treatise on terrestrial and aerial locomotion / by E.J. Marey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    316/340
    Mii.itABY Works—continued. AUSTRIAN CAVALRY EXERCISE. From an Abridged Edition compiled by Captain Ili.ia Woinovits, of the General Staff, on the Tactical Regula- tions of the Austrian Army, and prefaced by a General Sketch of the Organisation, &c., of the Cavalry. Translated by Captain W. S. Cooke. Crown 8vo, cloth. Price 7*. “Among the valuable group of works on the military tactics of the chief States of Europe which Messrs. King are publishing, a small treatise on * Austrian Cavalry Exercise* will hold, a good and useful place.”—Westminster Review. “Well and clearly written, and contains avast amount of very useful information.”—Edinburgh Daily Reviciv. History of the Organisation, Equipment, and War Services of THE REGIMENT OF BENGAL ARTILLERY. Compiled from Published Official and other Records, and various private sources, by Major Francis W. Stubbs, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery. Vol. I. will contain War Services. The Second Volume will be published separately, and will contain the History OF the Organisation and Equipment of the Regiment. In 2 vols. 8vo. With Maps and Plans. [Preparing. VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. An Attempt to explain the Causes which have led to them. An Officer’s Manual. By Col. It. P. Anderson. 8vo. 14s. “The young officer should have it always at hand to open anywhere and read a bit, and we warrant him that let that bit be ever so small it will give him material for an hour's thinking.— United Service Gazette. “The present bo-*k proves that he is a diligent student of military history, his illustrations ranging over a wide field, and including ancient and mo- dern Indian and European warfare.”—Standard. THE FRONTAL ATTACK OF INFANTRY. By Capt. Laymann, Instructor of Tactics at the Military College, Neisse. Translated by Colonel Edward Newdig*ate. Crown 8vo, limp cloth. Price is. 6d. “ An exceedingly useful kind of book. A valu- able acquisition to the military student's library. It recounts, in the first place, the opinions and tactical formations which regulated the German army during the early battles of the late war ; ex- plains how these were modified in the course of the campaign by the terrible and unanticipated effect of the fire; and how, accordingly, troops should be trained to attack in future wars. —Naval and Military Gazette. ELEMENTARY MILITARY GEOGRAPHY, RECONNOITRING, AND SKETCHING. Compiled for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers of all Arms. By Lieut. C. E. H. Vincent, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Square cr. 8vo. 2$. 6it. “ This manual takes into view the necessity of every soldier knowing how to read a military map, in order to know to what points in an enemy’s country to direct his attention; and provides for this necessity by giving, in terse and sensible language, definitions of varieties of ground and the advantages they present in warfare, together with a number of useful hints in military sketching.”— Naval and Military Gazette. THREE WORKS BY LIEUT.-COL. THE HON. A. ANSON, V.C., M.P. The Abolition of Purchase and the ] Army Reserves and Militia Reforms. Army Regulation Bill of 1871. Crown ' Crown 8vo. Sewed. Price One Shilling. 8vo. Price One Shilling. I The Story of the Supersessions. Crown I 8vo. Price Sixpence. STUDIES IN THE NEW INFANTRY TACTICS. Parts I. & II. By Major W. von Scherff. Translated from the German by Colonel Lumley Graham. Demy 8vo. Price 7r. 6ft. “ The subject of the respective advantages of attack and cfefence, and of the methods in which each form of battle should be carried out under the fire of modern arms, is exhaustively and ad- mirably treated; indeed, we cannot but consider it to be decidedly superior to any work which has hitherto appeared in English upon this all-import- ant subject.”—Sta?idard. Second Edition. Revised and Corrected. TACTICAL DEDUCTIONS FROM THE WAR OF 1870—71. By Captain A. von Bog-uslawski. Translated by Colonel Lumley Graham, late 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment. Demy 8vo. Uniform with the above. Price -js. “We must, without delay, impress brain and forethought into the British Service ; and we can- not commence the good work too soon, or better, than by placing the two books (‘ The Operations of the German Armies’ and ‘Tactical Deductions’) we have here criticised in every military library, and introducing them as class-books in every tac- tical school.”—United Service Gazette.