NOTES 
FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
The subject for the Duncan Gold Medal Prize Essay, 1894, is—- 
“ What is the best tactical organisation and system of training mass bat¬ 
teries of Horse and Field Artillery P 55 
The Committee have determined to send out monthly with the “ Proceedings ” a 
sheet containing Advertisements of Articles or Property for Sale, Houses to Let, 
and Wants generally of Members of the It.A. Institution. The rate charged 
will, at first, be Is. for four lines or under, and 3d. for every additional line. No 
advertisement will be printed for any but a Member, and it is hoped that Mem¬ 
bers will not send advertisements of property or wants other than their own. 
The following works are now on sale at the It.A. Institution and will be for¬ 
warded post free at the prices noted after their titles below:— 
Major-General Stubbs’s “List of Officers of the Bengal Artillery,” 
price 5s. 3d. 
“Field Artillery Fire,” by Captain W. L. White, R.A., price 
Is. 2d. 
“Notes of Lectures on Artillery in Coast Defence,” by Major A. 
C. Hansard, R.A., price Is. 2d. 
“ Ranging Note-Book,” by Captain S. W. Lane, R.A., price Is. Id. 
“Achievements of Field Artillery,” by Major E. S. May, R.A., 
bound, price 2s. 6d. 
The two Numbers of “Nature” containing Professor C. V. Boys’s 
Lecture on “ Photography of Flying Bullets,” fully illus¬ 
trated, price 8d. 
Examination questions in (c), (d), and (e) set in the four examina¬ 
tions ending May 1898 :— 
Captains (c) and (d) ... price Is. Id. 
Lieutenants ( c ) ( d ) and ( e ) price Is. Id. 
A Correspondent writes :— 
“ It has so often been stated that no “ wheeled artillery ” accompanied Sir 
Frederick (now Lord) Roberts on his famous march, and this has lately been 
reiterated by Major May, in his interesting book “ Achievements of Field Artil¬ 
lery,” that I feel induced to mention the following facts. 
It is true no field guns started from Kabul for Kandahar, but at Khelat-i- 
Ghilzai (six marches from Kandahar) the Right Section of C/2 R.A. (Major P. 
H. Greig’s, now the 75tli Field Battery), under Lieutenant H. F. Mercer, joined 
the Column, and marched with it to Kandahar, taking part in the battle of the 1st 
September. This detachment received the bronze star, commemorative of the 
march. This section did not, I believe, in any way delay the Column, though the 
roads were bad. 
I think, therefore, the Field Artillery may fairly claim that they took part in 
this, one of the great military achievements of the Nineteenth Century.” 
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