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Sweden. In artillery uniforms there is nothing older than 1794, but 
in the infantry some of the accoutrements date back some 300 years. 
The specimens are all arranged on dummy figures to represent soldiers 
of the period. There are very few foreign uniforms. England is 
represented solely by a R.H.A. gunner’s full dress uniform of 1883, 
presented by a Swedish officer. This is not a creditable specimen of 
R.H.A. dress, and it has evidently been installed in the Museum by 
someone who did not thoroughly understand the uniform in question. 
The plume has been expanded at the top—apparently on purpose—-to 
its fullest extent, so that a well-used shaving brush would be quite smart 
compared to it! I really think that if the Government or the R.A. 
Institution were to present (or exchange) a new set of R.A. uniforms, 
Horse, Field, and Garrison, it would be much appreciated, and we 
could send someone over to dress the lay figures properly ! 
Group II contains standards, trophies, &c., of which there are 
specimens belonging to the various Swedish regiments, the artillery 
included. The old standards are very large and heavy. Some bear 
inspiring mottoes, such as “ In Goltes namen ,” “ Auf Gott hoffe ich” 
“ Das Gluck erfreue mich ,” &c. An artillery standard of the time of 
Charles XII. bears, in addition to the Royal arms and monogram, 
various artillery emblems, such as guns, port-fires, partisans, lintstocks, 
&c. It was carried in a two-horse carriage at the head of the 
column on the line of march. This group also contains specimens of 
musical instruments, some of which are very curious. 
Group I takes in small-arms amongst which there are some rare 
examples of wall pieces, matchlocks and flintlocks, pistols, &c., dating 
from the 15th Century, and the gradual advance in the manufacture of 
fire-arms is clearly indicated by the different examples dating from this 
early period to the present time. The English specimens are poor. 
In Group K (armes blanches) there is a good collection of spears, 
halberds, pikes, officers’ lialf-pikes, partisans, lintstocks, lances, &c. 
This group is sub-divided into : (a) arms with shafts (as above) ; ( b ) 
side-arms, including swords, rapiers, cutlasses, &c. 
Group L contains specimens of all sorts of appliances for igniting 
the charge of small-arms, such as tinder, quick and slow match, prim¬ 
ing, flint and steel, locks, percussion caps, &c. 
Group M contains sights for small-arms, &c. 
The Museum is, as I have said, a very interesting and well-arranged 
one, but it does not contain anything like the number of rare and 
curious articles which we could exhibit if our present scattered collec¬ 
tions were brought together into one convenient building where they 
could be properly displayed and identified, with the help of a clear 
catalogue divided into classes and periods somewhat after the manner 
of the Swedish catalogue above described. 
This system of collecting together isolated collections into one central 
institution has also been adopted with much success in Spain, where there 
is a splendid “ Artillery Museum,” which is a national institution 
entirely managed by artillery officers, there being a director and staff 
who are fully occupied in the supervision and working of the Museum. 
They see that it is properly supplied with all the latest specimens 
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