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afcions how the table came into the possession of the Eoyal Artillery 
Institution. And if you will allow me I should like to propose a vote 
of thanks to General Gardiner for his generosity in giving us this 
beautiful, present—it is a most valuable present. The pictures and 
drawings I have gone through myself with General Gardiner, and I am 
sure that all the officers who see them will appreciate fully their value 
and intrinsic merit. And the table, as General Gardiner says in his 
letter, is quite a work of art of the most valuable period, at the time 
when furniture was made in a far better w r ay than it is at present, it is 
one of the most beautiful specimens of that kind of furniture ; and I 
think that a little plate let into the table, stating how it came into our 
possession, would be a valuable thing in future. 
Lieut.-General Sir W. Stirling, K.C.B.—I should like very much 
to second that. Sir Robert Gardiner lived to a great age, and there 
never was an officer, I believe, who had the interest of the Corps more 
thoroughly at heart until the last days of his life. 
The vote of thanks was put and carried unanimously. 
Two subjects were then chosen for submission to H.R.H. the Com- Pr ?“ n -^ ay 
mander-in-Chief, the one selected by him will be announced as that for u T89L Say ’ 
the Duncan Gold Medal Prize Essay, 1894. 
The Chairman.- —There is one more point that I would like to bring 
to the notice of the General Meeting which is that Captain Grierson, Crimean 
D.A.A.G., has lately been out in the Crimea and has visited the graves of graves * 
the Artillerymen out there, and he has pointed out that for the small sum 
of £5, the headstones and so on could be put in very serviceable order, 
and in a condition to last for a good number of years. 
The Committee of the Institution have therefore kindly consented to 
give that £5, provided that the General Meeting agree. Captain Abdy 
will read to you Captain Grierson's letter on the subject. 
The Secretary read the same. 
Major-General E. Markham. —I quite think, Sir, that as Captain 
Grierson has recently visited the place we ought to go by what he says. 
At the same time, I had a very interesting conversation the other day 
with Sir John McNeill, who is an Equerry to the Queen, and who has just 
come back from Sebastopol within the last fortnight. He visited the 
grave-yard, and as I understood from him, it was all in very good 
order, and certainly, since a few years ago, when the allowance was 
given of £200 a year for keeping it in order, he mentioned that Lieut. 
Murray 1 has exercised a great deal of care over it. Of course, a man 
of: our own Corps going there and seeing the thing would go more 
minutely into the condition of the officers' gravestones, and would see 
what required to be done; therefore I quite support this motion. But 
I was rather amused at Sir John McNeill mentioning, and it is interest¬ 
ing to the Regiment, perhaps, to know that he remarked one particular 
tomb-stone with an inscription quite plain and it was To the memory 
of the arm of Major-General George Henryhe lost his arm in the 
trenches; it was taken off from the shoulder—it is buried there, and 
there is an inscription to it. 
1 Lieut. A. P. Murray, Gordon Highlanders, H.B.M. Vice Consul, Odessa. 
