Battalion drill and telegraphy.
In the lecture room, instruction in the mechanical powers, in gunnery, systems of rifling, action and penetration of the service projectiles; construction, examination, and record of guns.
Army administration as affecting artillery.
Lectures on gunpowder, gun cotton, and fulminates; on metallurgy; on the various modes of computing velocities and the instruments employed; on electricity and steam; on strategy and tactics.
Cordage, knotting, tackles, parbuckling, pinching, slewing, etc.
Mounting and dismounting with and without gins.
Drill and practice with 32-pr. and 8 seconds guns.
Drill and practice with mortars on standing and travelling beds, also mounting and dismounting.
Drill practice with 40-pr. and 64-pr. guns, firing at moving target; drill with 7 seconds B.L. guns; drill with 7 seconds, 9 seconds, and 12 seconds M.L.R. guns and practice; dismounting and mounting the above.
Laying platforms, etc.