Excerpt from Sporting Guns and Gunpowders, Vol. 1: Comprising a Selection From Reports of Experiments, and Other Articles Published in the "Field" Newspaper, Relative to Fire Arms and Explosives

Mr. Walsh was better known to the general public by his nom de plume of Stonehenge. Before he became editor of the Field he had published (in 1856) his volume on British Rural Sports, which has since passed through seventeen editions. In this work he gave particulars of the breech loaders then coming into vogue, and inserted fuller details in his book on The Shot Gun and Sporting Rifle (published in Vol. I. Of The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle (which appeared in 1882) was devoted to game and wildiowl guns; and Vol. II. (published in 1884) treated of sporting and match rifles, together with revolvers. His other works include The Horse in the Stable nd the Field (12th edit 1887) Dogs of the British Islands (5th edit 1888) The Dog in Health and Disease, and The Greyhound. A Treatise on Breeding and Training of Greyhounds for Public Cour-sing. He was aho the author of books on domestic economy and domestic medicine, and e inventor of various contrivances in connection with guns, tricycles, ac.penetration of the shot; and these pads continued to be used for nearly twenty years, up to the trial of cylinder and choke bore guns with nitro and black powders in 1878. In 1879, however, the paper pads gave way to Mr. Walsh's force gauge, with which the trial of 12, 16, and 20-bore guns was carried out. In 1884 he had hollow leaden cylinders made to serve as the artificial breech end of a gunbarrel, whereby to test the explosive force of gunpowders, and ascertain what sfiects were produced by undue drying of the powders. Since Mr. Walsh's death, other instruments and improvements upon his original constructions have been introduced; and some of the results of experiments made with the various kinds of apparatus are given in subsequent pages, together with occasional remarks tending to show the bearing of one set of experiments upon another series.

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