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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
OP THE 
EOYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION 
The Meeting was held in the Lecture Theatre, Royal United Service 
Institution, Whitehall, on Friday, 3rd June, 1898. 
Lieut.-General Sir E. Markham, K.C.B., I.G.O., took the chair 
at 3 p.m. and asked the Secretary to read the Report as follows :— 
During the past season the following ten lectures were given at the 
Institution :— 
“ A System of Comparing Geographical Distances.” By Captaiu 
F. J. S. Cleeve, R.A., 14th October, 1897. 
“ Invasion,”—A war game. By Lieutenant H. Chamberlain, 
R.N., 28th October, 1897. 
“ Experiences of the Turco-Greek War.” By Major C. E. 
Callwell, R.A., 11th Nov., 1897. 
Artillery: psychologically and ethically considered. By Captain 
W. V. Herbert, Turkish Army. 25th Nov., 1897. 
“ Wireless Telegraphy and its Military Possibilities.” By 
Captain W. P. Brett, R.E., 9th December, 1897. 
“Recruiting.” By H. 0. Arnold-Forster, Esq., M.P., 16th Dec., 
1897. 
“ Rbntgen Rays up-to-date.” By W. Webster, Esq., F.C.S., 
27th January, 1898. 
“ The Teaching of Mechanics by Experiment.” By J. A. Ewing, 
Esq., F.R.S., Professor of mechanism and applied mechanics 
in the University of Cambridge, 10th Feb., 1898. 
“ The Rusting of Iron and Steel.” By Professor Wyndham 
Dunstan, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. C.S., Director of the Scientific 
Department of the Imperial Institute, 24th Feb., 1898. 
“ The Mechanism of Bicycles.” By Major S. B. Yon Donop, R.A. 
Professor of Artillery at the Royal Militarv Academv 
10th March, 1898. 
Mr. C. Y. Bjys, F.R.S., a special honorary member R.A.I. was 
kind enough to take the chair at Major Yon Donop’s lecture and gave 
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