Page. Machinery of Navy vessels, present condition... Magazine rifles, purchase of, from Lee Arms Company. Mahan, Capt. A. T., report as president of War College.. report of president of War College. Mare Island, advantages as a ship-building yard..... new, needed. Norfolk, additional appropriations wanted Marine conference, international, importance of .... retirements during the year.. rank, better distribution recommended 324 for new vessels under construction 327 327 188 120 111 93 .... estimates for pay department.... 527 estimates for quartermaster's department. 528 schedules of proposals and contracts....... 530 Marsh, Ensign C. C., in charge compass-house 159 Martin, William, Assistant Surgeon, detailed to investigate yellow fever Mayer, A. N., Ensign, in charge of chronometers and time service Miller, J. R., Western Union Telegraph Company, services acknowledged 10-inch guns for, not due under contract.. 544 Mullan. Commander D. W., information furnished Hydrographic Office... Museum of Hygiene, extract from report of Medical-Inspector H. M. Wells... 500 546 39 114 94 484 25 practical instruction, time devoted to...... library, increase in books.... catalogue necessary. general-service men, enlistment of, for................. result of May examination... estimates for support of.. additional ground needed.... electric lighting should be introduced. new furniture for cadets' quarters needed....... schedule of offers and contracts for supplies.. annual report Board of Visitors.. reduction of course recommended.. grounds, buildings, and sanitary condition. seamenship, ordnance, and navigation. discipline, drill, exercises, and police... steam-engineering, physics, and mathematics English studies, history, etc...... finance and library. subjects of study, and standard of scholarship.. presence of North Atlantic Squadron, enhanced interest Naval Asylum, expenditures for, in 1888.. estimates for 1890.. excellent condition reported... Naval hospital fund, condition of Naval hospitals, condition of.. diseases treated at. Navy increase, appropriations for description of vessels.. payments made on vessels.. .... ..... Naval Intelligence, office of, estimates for salaries, etc.. Naval Observatory, notice of operations at... estimates for salaries, etc estimate for new 29 30 30 31 31 31 32 32 32 31-34 .... 35 38 21 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 45 45, 48 46 46 46 46 46 46 481 481 495 Navigation, Bureau, derelicts, importance of removing Hydrographic Office, its great importance. new, progress in constructing. library of Department, accessions to, etc naval war records, importance of completing naval reserves, establishment of international marine conference, importance of. expenditures for civil establishment at navy-yards. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, N. H., condition and requirements... Page. 80 86-91 91 .41, 333 appropriations required for repairs, etc ....49, 51, 71, Navy-yard, Boston, condition and requirements. appropriations required for repairs.. expenditure at, in 1888. expenditure at, in 1888.. 52-58 53-58 expenditures for civilians in 1888. 59, 60 .41, 336 49 .51, 71, 90, 202, 281, 352, 423 52-54 53-58 59, 60 .41, 331 49 civil force..51, 71, 90, 202, 281, 352, 423 52-54 53-58 59, 60 .42, 337 49 Navy-yard, New York, condition and requirements.. appropriations required for repairs, etc.. expenditure at, in 1888.. Navy-yard, League Island, condition and requirements civil force.....51, 71, 90, 202, 281, appropriations required for repairs, etc expenditure at, in 1888.. Navy-yard, Norfolk, condition and requirements appropriations required for repairs..... expenditure at, in 1888. Navy-yard, Mare Island, condition and requirements.. appropriations required for repairs, etc. civil force.51, 71, 90, 202, 231, 352, 423 expenditure at, in 1888.. Navy-yard, Pensacola, condition and requirements appropriations for civil force expenditures for civilians in 1888.. Navy-yard, New London, condition and requirements Nautical Almanac office, work on new tables of planets.... Nautical instruments, trial of, at Observatory Naval reserves, importance of establishing Naval War Records, progress in prepairing. insufficiency of force... estimates for office.... should be speedily completed Naval War College, importance of, suggested by the Admiral. notice of, by Chief of Bureau of Navigation. programme, session of 158 officers engaged in lecturing at. estimate for... improvement in course of studies.. lectures delivered at.... importance to the naval profession.. Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, trial of guns and carriages. trial of Maxim's 45-caliber machine-gun.. work performed at.... services of Lieut. A. M. Knight and assistants gun ranges insufficient. forms of exercises and drills for guns tried.. change of location thought of.. registering velocities, Knight's instrument. Nautilus Submarine Company, proposal torpedo-boat designs not satisfactory. Nitro-glycerine inert, firing of shells charged with. Nordenfeldt design for torpedo-boat, proposal not satisfactory Norris, Lient. John A., to determine magnetic longitude measurement.. Ocean surveys, satisfactory continuation of... estimates for............ Our Mary, launch, report on boilers of.. Oscillating engines, pump, etc., report on...... Ordance Proving Ground. (See Naval Ordnance Proving Ground.) Ordnance, Bureau of, report of Chief....... Page. 181 181 102 182 79 16 63 160 101 101 90 83 .84-101 84 190 190 190 190 190 191 191 191 Page. Ordnance, Bureau of, greater facilities required at torpedo station... amount paid civilian employés.. abstracts of offers for supplies.. extimates for various purposes report of Commander Goodrich, torpedo station Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, report of Lieutenant gun factory, monthly reports of work Pacific, northwest coast, location of yard on coast. report of, branch office, Baltimore. Pay, increase to petty officers recommended.. of the Navy, and pay miscellaneous, estimates for.. Petty officers, increase of pay recommended. Philip, Commander J. W., commanding receiving-ship Independence. 197 197 198 198 199 200 201 203 214, 274 216 219 41 24 116 153 191 159 70 2 484 69 .347, 382 70 66 159 Phythian, Capt. R. S., report of, as Superintendent Observatory 159 67 114 193 279 steering-machine, contract for.. Pneumatic gun-carriages, contract for.. Polk, Mrs. James K., opened Cincinnati Exposition.. Porter, D. D., Admiral, report of (see also Admiral of the Navy). 193 193 543 8 report on Berdan's torpedo.. Port Royal, estimates for... 540 50,56 Pratt & Whitney, construction of Hotchkiss guns by... Primers, several forms of Lieutenant May's electrical, tried. expenditure at.. Powder, tests of American, used in Navy. new forms of, introduced.. Potter, Capt. E. E., governor of Naval Asylum, Philadelphia Powell, W. T., recommended for chief draughtsman, Construction and Repair. Printing and binding, estimates for Hydrographic Office.. Projectiles, form of cast-iron, not changed trial of armor-piercing shell cast-steel common shell or shrapnel Property accounts, ashore and afloat, system improved Provisions, estimates for statement of appropriation for Provisions and Clothing, Bureau of, report of Chief... 52-58 184 185 46 278 187 186 88 185 185 185 417 .73, 428, 532 422 416 Rae, Passed Assistant Engineer C. W., report on Herreshoff boiler. 363 |