By the courtesy of Mr. S. F. Cody, we are enabled to reproduce some illustrations of his man-lifting kites which have not only aroused public attention, but that of the Admiralty and War Office. Mr. Cody may certainly be congratulated on the success that has so far attended his experiments in man-lifting with his winged-box kites. The trials with his system, both on the ironclads placed at his disposal by the Admiralty and at Aldershot, seem to promise that at no very distant future the captive observation balloon, limited in its use to fairly calm weather, will be efficiently supplemented on windy days by the observation kite. In a well-illustrated pamphlet on the subject which Mr. Cody has recently circulated, he thus describes his method of man-lifting.