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A VISIT TO THE STOCKHOLM ARTILLERY MUSEUM. 
of ordnance and models of scientific warlike appliances, trophies, 
military curiosities, &c. This Museum in some degree corresponds 
with our R.A. Institution, and is of great value to the Regiment and 
to the Spanish Army in general for purposes of study, besides being of 
much interest to the historian and student of military history. 
To make such a Museum in this country it would be necessary to 
locate in one large central building in London or elsewhere the con¬ 
tents of the Rotunda at the R.M. Repository, and such portion of the 
Museum of the R.A. Institution as deals with military science and 
history. Also this might with advantage be supplemented by certain 
models, scientific curiosities, specimens of weapons, and ammunition 
from the Royal Arsenal. 
By this means we should no doubt get together a highly interesting 
and valuable Museum which would hold its own with any similar con¬ 
tinental institution. 
But this is an easier matter to suggest than to carry out. 
Many difficulties present themselves at once; first of all the locale of 
the newly-formed Museum ; secondly, how a new house is to be pro¬ 
vided. 
I do not propose now to enter into the question of ways and means, 
but will merely remark en passant that even if an annexe to the R.M. 
Repository could be made which would house the military portion of the 
R.A. Institution Museum (leaving in the present building the ornitho¬ 
logical, geological, numismatic, and other non-military collections), a 
great step would have been taken; and at all events many of the valuable 
and curious contents of the R.A. Institution, which are now rarely 
seen and known, would be on view and available for all who are in¬ 
terested to see and study. 
Such a museum ought, as elsewhere, to be a regimental establish¬ 
ment and would, naturally, with us be a part and portion of the R.A. 
Institution. 
I only offer the above as reflections which occurred to me after seeing 
the fine collections, such as I have alluded to, in Stockholm, Madrid, 
and other continental capitals. 
The question of space in the present home of the R.A. Institution 
must be faced sooner or later, and there can be no doubt that if we 
could effect a concentration of our regimental treasures and house the 
collection properly we should benefit, not only ourselves as a Regiment, 
but the military and sight-seeing public as well. 
