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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 1905. 
Ohe ‘Booth’ & ‘Monk’ Bird Collections. 
BY 
Mr. ARTHUR GRIFFITH, M.A. 
(At the Booth Museum). 
oe Members of the Society visited the Booth Museum, and 
during the afternoon Mr. Arthur Griffith, M.A., read a paper, 
in the course of which he alluded to the fact that the Booth 
collection of birds, now that it had been extended by the 
Corporation acquiring the “ Monk”’ collection, was the finest 
collection of British birds in the kingdom ; whilst the mounting 
and casing of the specimens to illustrate as far as possible their 
natural condition were unique. 
THURSDAY, MARCH 16rx, 1905. 
Ghe Eholution of Artillery, 
BY 
COL. EDGAR KENSINGTON, (Late) R.A., 
Formerly Professor of Artillery, Royal Military Academy, 
Woolwich. 

HE Lecturer commenced by observing that the association of 
the word artillery (derived from. French artiller—to work 
with art) with guns was not always correct, as in the Bible 
Jonathan signalled to David with bows and arrows: but it was 
now applied to those weapons used in the art of war for throwing 
missiles to a distance, as contrasted with the pike, battle-axe, or 
bayonet, used only for hand to hand fighting, the rifle being ex- 
ceptional as it accompanies the bayonet. In all fighting, from 
the remotest ages, victory has been obtained by hand to hand 
