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Tiie following works are now.on sale at the R.A. Institution and will be for' 
arded post free at the prices noted after their titles below:— 
“Twenty-four hours of Moltke’s Strategy 55 by Fritz IToenig. 
Translated by Colonel N. L. Wolford. price 5s. 
“The Shrapnel Tire of the Field Artillery 5 ’ by Major-General 
Rohne. Translated by Colonel N. L. Walford, price 2s. 6d. 
Major-General Stubbs’s “List of Officers of the Bengal Artillery, 55 
price 5s. 8d. 
“Field Artillery Fire,” by Captain W. L. White, R.A., price 
Is. 2d. 
“Ranging Note-Book,” by Captain S. W. Lane, R.A.,price Is. Id. 
“Achievements of Field Artillery,” by Major E. S. May, R.A.* 
bound, price 2s. 6d. 
“ The Yalue of Mobility for Field Artillery,” by Major E. S. May, 
R.A., paper covers, price 3d. 
“ The Young Officer’s ‘ Don’t, 5 or Hints to Youngsters on Joining,” 
by an Officer R.A., price 7d. 
Examination questions in (c), (d), (< e ) and (g) set in the five exam¬ 
inations ending November 1897 :— 
Captains (c), (d) and (g) ... price Is. Id. 
Lieutenants (c), (d) } (e) and (g) price Is. Id. 
Tables of Four-Figure Logarithms, pocket edition, mounted on 
linen, price 3d. 
“ Notes on the early history of the Royal Regiment of Artillery,” 
by the late Colonel Cleaveland, R.A., price 2s. 
“Ballistic Tables with an explanation,” by A. G. Hadock, late 
R.A., price 5s. each, subject to a large discount to members 
of the R.A.I. 
NOTE ON 
The Services of Colonel tfoiaas Watson, 1st XJcut.-Col. R,A 0 
— BY — 
LIEUT.-COL ON EL II. W. L. HI ME. 
Tiiebe is a tradition that when the authorities called upon Colonel Watson to 
give the name of the best artillery officer he knew, for appointment to the com¬ 
mand of the artillery of the expeditionary force sent to Carthagena (New 
Granada) at the end of 1740, he gave his own name. However this may be, he 
was appointed C.R.A., although he was 78 years of age. This fact was not over¬ 
looked by the writer of the scurrilous “ Account of the Expedition to Cartha¬ 
gena,” London, 1743, who sneers at the uselessness of the ‘poor gentleman 5 
who was ‘in his grand climaterick.’ But the author of the sound and reliable 
“Journal of the Expedition to Cathagena,” London, 1744, shows that this im¬ 
putation was as groundless as many other scandalous charges made by this 
anonymous libeller. “ Colonel Watson’s merit and long service very justly en¬ 
titled him to the command of the Train, . . nor did his age ever prevent his 
attendance on duty, in the performance of which he lost his life by a shot which 
glanced from a tree at some distance from the Battery ” (p. 56). The shot 
broke his thigh ( Gentleman’s Magazine , 1741. p. 268), and he died in April, 
1741. 
