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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
Much interesting information has been published in the “ Short Notes on 
Professional Subjects,” which have accompanied each issue of the 
“ Proceedings '' since the last Eeport. Whilst thanking the contributors 
of the 50 pages already issued, the Committee hope for the co-operation 
of a larger number of Members in support of this means of imparting to 
their brother officers, the observations and experience of individual members 
on subjects of Professional and Scientific interest. 
A revised copy of {c List of Service Guns and Ammunition '' corrected to 
March 31, has been issued to the Regiment, and it is gratifying to know 
that this publication has proved eminently useful. 
Some Members having expressed a wish for an Alphabetical List of the 
officers of the Regiment serving on full pay, showing dates of first and present 
commission, similar to one compiled by Lieut.-Colonel (then Major) 
Miller, R.A., in 1860, it was decided to publish the required information 
in a handy form for sale to Members at cost price. The first number was 
issued in November, and the list will in future be published quarterly. 
The cost to subscribers is one shilling a year exclusive of postage, or single 
numbers can be obtained by Members, price 6d. each. 
The Committee have pleasure in informing the Meeting that 200 
officers have entered their names as subscribers to the new edition of 
Kane's list. The present edition has been revised and corrected under 
the superintendence of Lt.-Col. Miller, R.A., and as the printing will be 
immediately commenced, it is hoped that subscribers will have received a 
copy of Part I. (the List of Officers of the old Royal Artillery), before the 
next Annual Meeting. When sufficient subscribers are obtained, it is 
intended to publish Part II. as notified to Members in Circular No. 25. 
This Part will contain information in the same form as that published in 
Part I., but relating to the late Indian Brigades. 
4. Library .—A second-hand copy of Paxton's Magazine of Botany 
(16 vols.) having been offered to the Institution for a very reasonable sum 
(£6) the Committee, finding the volumes complete and in good order, were 
glad to secure so valuable a work for the Library, especially as the 
R.A. Institution was deficient of any standard book in this department of 
science. The library has since been enriched by a copy of Paxton's Plower 
Garden (3 vols.), and the Committee have to thank Lt.-Col. Gosling, R.A., 
for this handsome gift. 
The Committee also gratefully acknowledge the presentation by the 
Author, Mr John Stuart, of a very interesting volume on the Sculptured 
Stones of Scotland. Mr Stuart hopes that the attention of Officers of 
Artillery, especially those likely to serve in India, may thus be drawn to the 
interest attaching to a class of symbols which may be of Indian origin, and 
to induce them to take note of even the rudest markings which have any 
appearance of antiquity, in caves, on rocks, &c. 
The list of changes in Artillery materiel can now be procured by 
Members gratis on application to the Secretary of the R.A. Institution, 
the Secretary of State for War having informed the Committee that he will 
have much pleasure in supplying these lists gratuitously in future. 
There has been a sale of 544 War Office Photographs and 2500 
Lithographs during the past year, and lists of those published since the 
last Report are sent to Members. 
