Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. So things were managed in Baltimore. The inventor of a new cannon as-sociated himself with the caster and the borer. Thus was formed the nucleus of the Gun Club. In a single month after its formation it numbered 1,833 effective members and 30,565 corresponding members. One condition was imposed as a sine qua non upon every candidate for admission into the association, and that was the condition of having designed