| Description | Mitchell writes that during an annual practice of the artillery it was noted that 'the fuses burned too long a time' and shares details of investigations into this phenomenon.
Subject: Physics
Written by Mitchell in Bangalore [India].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Extract of a letter, dated January 6, 1855, from J. Mitchell , Esq., Quartermaster of artillery, Bangalore, on the influence of local altitude on the burning of the fuses of shells'. |