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mittee, therefore, propose to allow them to join at once on payment 
of the annual subscription only, on condition that they pay the £1 
entrance as soon as gazetted. 
The other proposition brought forward by the Committee is one to 
enable them to extend the advantages of the Institution to men of 
science and learning in any way connected with the profession of 
arms, and they hope that the meeting will approve of it. 
The system of Corresponding Members progresses favourably, and 
certain of those nominated under last year's New Rule have afforded 
the Committee valuable assistance. 
Building. After various delays the Laboratory has been cleared out, the floors 
aud walls of the room repaired and a floor covering of corticene laid 
down ; this has enabled the Museum to be extended and the scheme 
of improvement to be fully carried out : the shelves of the library ex¬ 
tension room are' rapidly filling up with books from the smoking room, 
and from the library which has been hitherto much overcrowded. The 
space occupied by book-shelves in the smoking-room is now used to 
exhibit the collection of coloured prints of Royal Artillery dress and 
incidents which the Committee have been fortunate enough to acquire 
through the knowledge and good taste of certain members interested in 
the ancient history of the Regiment. The spaces vacated in the draw¬ 
ing room by the removal of various botanical and ornithological 
collections to what was the laboratory, are being used for hanging 
pictures painted by officers of the Regiment. The idea of forming this 
collection was mentioned last year, but the Committee hardly anticipated 
that it would have been so favourably received. Some 40 officers have 
promised to give works from their own pencil or brush, and 12 or 15 
pictures have already been received; one distinguished family is repre¬ 
sented by the works of three generations. 
The increase to the Library during the past year has been very large; 
the Committee have bought every good work on Military Art or History 
that has been brought to their notice; among other works they are now 
subscribing to the history of National Biography. 
Lectures. The question of lectures is a difficult one; in these days of many 
courses of instruction, increase of branches of the School of Gunnery and 
of various certificates of proficiency, there is a fear that lectures may 
be rather overdone. Bearing this in mind the Committee have been 
careful to restrict the lectures of the past season at the Royal Artillery 
Institution to a few given by those having a most intimate acquaint¬ 
ance with the locality or subject touched on. One lecture stands out 
prominently amongst those delivered at the Institution for years past, 
viz.: that of Prof. C. Boys, F.R.S., on “ Photographing bullets in 
flight/' and the Committee congratulate the members on the benefits 
to the science of ballistics that are likely to result from the delivery 
of this lecture. Six lectures in all were given during the winter 
season; Major Wingate, D.S.O., had unfortunately to cancel his en¬ 
gagement, but the proportion of about seven lectures for the twenty 
weeks of the winter season seems to the Committee most suitable. 
Kane’s List. The Committee regret that they have not been able to carry out their 
wish, expressed last year, to publish annually the Addenda and Corri- 
