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I thought this might be a useful place to list all the publications which I had come across for the short-lived Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture (April 1791 to May 1794):
An Address to the Public,from the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture. Instituted 14thApril 1791.
Some Account of the Institution, Plan, and Present State, of the Societyfor the Improvement of Naval Architecture. September 1792
Premiums offered by theSociety ... and a list of the committee ... To which is annexed, an account ofMr. J. Read's method of stopping the progress of fire on board of ships. January 1793
The Report of the Committee Appointed to Manage the Experiments of the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture, January 1794
A Treatise concerning theTrue Method of finding the Proper Area of the Sails for Ships of the Line, andfrom thence the length of masts and yards. (Supplement, taken from the"New Transactions of the Swedish Academy of Sciences" ... concerninga true method for finding the height of the centre of gravity in a ship, etc.) ByF. H. af Chapman. Translated from the Swedish. With diagrams. January 1794
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