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FOUR interesting articles appeared in the columns of Engineering in August of this year, contributed by Fleet-Surgeon C. Marsh Beadnell, and these have now been reprinted in the form of a thin pamphlet. The articles are full of information as to the weights and velocities of different bullets and as to the effects of bullets of different kinds when they strike various substances at different points in their trajectory. The great experience of the author as a big-game sportsman on the one hand and as having seen many cases in the South African and Philippine wars and the present war on the other give great value to his observations on the destructive or at times very slight effects produced by the modern bullet; his treatment of the dynamical and especially of the aerodynamical principles affecting the motion of projectiles is less satisfactory.
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BOYS, C. Modern Bullets in War and Sport . Nature 96, 231 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096231a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096231a0