MILITARY PROJECTILES.

The Hague convention established certain rules regarding the use of bullets, binding on the signatory powers, but it acted on what was then imperfect knowledge, while there is yet much to be learned in regard to the effects of military projectiles. Any experimental investigation that throws light on the subject is therefore welcome, as it is capable of being even more instructive than actual military experience. Each source of knowledge has its advantages, and the present happenings in widely different portions of the globe are furnishing us expensive practical observations of modern gunshot injuries in war. In the Lancet of December 2, Drs. Arthur Keith and Hugh M. Rigby report a series of experiments with the English service bullets as compared with the Mauser projectiles, the ones in use by the Boers and Filipinos, and also the army revolver projectiles, the British Webley and the Mauser. They point out that