Excerpt from Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1877, Vol. 1: Royal Engineer Institute, Occasional Papers This recommendation was adopted at the Corps Meeting, and during the autumn of 1876 three Occasional Papers were published separately in pamphlet form. During this year four pamphlets, each containing four or five papers, have been published, and these are now bound together in the lst volume of the new series. The three papers published in 1876 were not printed uniformly nor paged consecutively, and have therefore not been included in the lat volume, but bound together as an appendix to it. The change of form in the Professional Papers is, it will be seen, principally one of size; and the matter of each volume may be obtained either in pamphlet form, immediately on publication, or bound up, at the end of the year, uniform with the previous volumes of Professional Papers. There is no reason why these Occasional Papers should not be made of very great service to the Corps; but for this end the co operation of every member is necessary; and we trust that during the coming year individual officers, both at home and abroad, and especially in India, will find time to communicate many interesting results of their experiences in carrying on the work upon which they may be employed, or to contribute for the benefit of the Corps at large any use Ful information which they may have acquired in the course of their various duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.