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tmpaignor'H Acquirements consiHt partly in knowlmign and partly in han<lin«M. Field lectun«, 

 luHtnit«<l tiy nxporiments, may convoy tho firnt to an inl«>llig(<nt noviev, and thi«« nirxleU will 

 gxplaiii wlidt kind of tliingH n>unt !>« iniulo by his liandx, U-foru h(» can a*;<iuiro tli»! Iatt«r. 



Fhancis Oaltojj. 

 42 Rutland Qate>, 

 Ai^5, 1858." 



Only one of Gallon's Aldershot lectures, the inaii^rural one "on the 

 openinji; of his Museum and LalxM'utory in the South (Jatnp, V. Nos. 18 and 

 20," WHS, I l)elieve, printed. It was issued hy John Murray in ISSf) hh "Arts 

 of Campaigniuif, an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Aldershot." From this 

 lecture it would appear that one of the huts was turned into a nniseum, 

 illustrating by sketches and models and a small library the art« of camj)aign- 

 ing; it was open from 1.30 to 0.30; the second hut was a workshop, and a 

 place for storing tools. 



" Next as ni^jiirils teaching tiio haml. I iim collectinj; a motley stock of very simple tools and 

 raw materials, plank.s, logs, twigs, canvas, cloths, and everything necessary for making with the 

 hand those very things that you will see pictured in the museum; I urge you to come and make 

 uso of them. In the palisadoed plot of ground, between the huts, you can sit and work just as 

 roughly as you would in the Crimea, and you will from time to time have intelligent workmen 

 to a.ssist you in your dilliculties, and explain the use of the tools you work with. ...Tlien! is ni> 

 hahitahlit country so wild iind so inhospitable a.s not frwjuently to art'ord ample materials for 

 making each thing I have nientione<i. But unless we learn to dniw our supplitw from nature, 

 and not thn)ugh the medium of manufactories, we may sit with our hands folde<l in unwilling 

 idleness, and complaining of want when we are really in the midst of abundance, and surrounded 



by op|)ortunitieR of using them I hope that tlie.se huts may l>e Imjked u|>on mon- as a lalx>ra- 



tory where learnei-s may teach themselves, which is the best kind of learning, — rather than as 

 a place where they are formally taught. I wish to make it a kind of hejid ipiartfrs of the know- 

 ledge of those shifts, contrivance.s, and handicrafts that are available in camp life; and I call 

 upon you to help mo with your assistance. Write to your friends from the Crimea, or from 

 the bush, who take an interest in these things, get hints of original experiences from them, and 

 communicate them to me; they will not lie idle, but will at once be turne<i to account in 

 incrtjasing a storti alieiwly large, and will remain ■■ecorded in pictures or in motiels for the goixl 

 of ourselves and all who follow us." 



Throughout Galton exhibits his innate modesty; asking tor help rather 

 than ottering to teach, he proposes expeditions to distant points of the heath to 

 illustrate camp contrivances. He endeavours to give a thoroughly practical 

 turn to his instruction, avoiding scrupulou.sly all that was simply fanciful. 



About the same time as these lectures, but at a date unknown to me, 

 Galton gave a lecture on the Art of Campaigning at the United Services 

 Institution in Whitehall Yard. On this occasion according to the Ti ■- 

 report (cutting without date) "there were present many wounded oHli ; ~ 

 from the Crimea, and the gallery was filled as usual with non-conunissioned 

 oflicei-s from the Guard.s, Artillery, Household Cavalry and other tro..|is 

 forming the garrison of London and Woolwich." Cialton showetl exp<ii- 

 mentally how a tree might be cut down and turned into a pole without t<.>ols 

 and a hole dug in the hardest ground for it without a spade or other tool 

 than a small stick or iron ramrod. He lashed a fomnion cla.sp-knife to a 



' This is the first published paper dat<Hl trom jlutlaiui (Jate. 



