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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
A List of Members accompanies this Report, five years having now 
elapsed since such a record has been published. 
2. With regard to the financial condition of the Institution, the 
Committee are glad to be able to submit a favourable Balance Sheet. At 
the date of the last Annual Report, a sum of £200 was due to Messrs 
Cox & Co., this debt has been paid off, and the D r and C r account shows 
a balance of £1932. 16s. 4d. in favour of the Institution, being an increase 
of £185. 2s. 3d. in the year. 
The services of the Secretary of the Institution having been temporarily 
required by the Secretary of State for War in December last, the Committee 
obtained the sanction of the Deputy-Adjutant General, Royal Artillery, to 
the appointment of Captain Eord, R.A., as Acting Secretary; and it gives 
them pleasure to record their opinion of the able manner in which that 
Officer conducted the business of the Institution during the four months of 
the past year that he was thus employed. 
3. Printing and 'Publication .—Volume V. of the “ Proceedings ” has 
been completed. The papers enumerated in the annexed list have been 
published during the past year, and the Committee express their sincere 
thanks to those who have thus contributed much valuable information 
for the Professional Papers. 
List of “ Proceedings ” printed during the year . 
On the Geology of Gibraltar, with especial reference to the recently Explored 
Caves and Bone Breccia. By Lt. Alexander B. Brown, R.A., E.R.A.S., E.G.S. 
Shells for Rifled Eield Guns. By Lieut. J. T. Barrington, R.A. 
The comparative Advantages of Breech-loading and Muzzle-loading systems 
for Rifled Eield Artillery. By Lieut.-Colonel E. Miller, R.A., UC. 
Annual Report and Abstract of Proceedings of a General Meeting of the 
Royal Artillery Institution, held on Monday, May 6, 1867, Brigadier-General 
J. H. Lefroy, R.A., E.R.S., in the Chair. 
A Lecture on the Campaigns of 1866 in Germany. By Lieut.-Colonel 
E. Miller, R.A., V€. 
The Shrapnel of the Past. By Major-General W. B. Gardner, R.A. 
Boxer’s wood Time Euze for M.L. ordnance (Rifle and Smooth-bored). By 
Captain Vivian Dering Majendie, R.A., Assistant Superintendent, Royal Laboratory. 
The Siege of Madras. By Sidney Owen, M.A., Lee’s Reader in Law and 
History at Christ Church ; and Reader in Indian Law in the University of Oxford. 
Tactical and General Instructions for the I. R. Northern Army, issued in 
May, 1866, by the Eeldzeugmeister Chevalier von Benedek. By Major Goode- 
nough, R.A. (Translated from the Oestreichische Militarische Zeitschrift of 
September, 1866). 
Mountain Train formed for Service in Abyssinia. By Capt. C. 0. Browne, R.A., 
Captain Instructor, Royal Laboratory. 
Translation of a Royal Decree passed recently in the Italian Parliament. 
By Captain Maynard Wolfe, R.A. 
On a Clinometer for Elevated Coast Batteries. By Capt. J. R. Oliver, R.A. 
Extracts from Report on Ballistic Experiments carried on during the years 
1861-2, under the Direction of the O.S. Committee. By Captain W. H, 
Noble, M.A., R.A., Associate Member, O.S. Committee. 
Short Notes on Professional Subjects, 1868. Nos. 2—6, pp. 5 to 44. 
