Professor J. Fortescue Flannery's contribution to the torpedo boiler debate was based on his paper 'Some recent experiments in artificial combustion.' Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, vol. 21, 1880, pp. 240-251. read before the 1880 meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects. The Editors of Engineering were of the opinion that his experiments had shed little or no light on the question at issue.