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which would do nearly as much service as the range-finder or the use of 
land-ranges. The Committee would beg to point out that the artillery is 
the only arm of the service in which there is no organised system of reward¬ 
ing men for excellence in shooting or in driving. In the artillery alone is 
there no annual publication of the results of the year's practice, to excite a 
wholesome emulation between batteries. Even the Volunteer Artillery have 
the advantage of prizes, to stimulate the men to the study of their profession. 
In the cavalry and infantry there are both badges and money prizes to reward 
proficiency in the use of arms: in the artillery there is no such advantage. 
Many schemes have been proposed to meet this w r ant—one especially, pub¬ 
lished at the R.A. Institution, by Captain T. B. Strange, in 1870—and the 
Committee are unanimous in recommending the extension to the artillery of 
the system which exists in the rest of the army. 
RECOMMENDATION S. 
49. (1) Pending further experiments with the “ water shell/' the 
Committee recommend that the proportion of projectiles carried by field 
artillery per gun and wagon be as follows ;—■ 
9-pr. 
16-pr. 
Shrapnel shell . 
. 112 
... 76 
Common shell. 
. 28 
... 20 
Case shot . 
. 4 
... 4 
The shrapnel shells to be used with time fuzes when required to burst in 
the air, and with percussion fuzes when intended to act as percussion shells 
on graze. The common shells to be used with either time or percussion 
fuzes, according to the nature of the service required. Steps should be 
taken to ascertain whether the common shell could not be made more of an 
incendiary projectile by the addition of some carcass composition or other 
combustible substance to the present bursting charge. 
In the event of the failure of the water shell, efforts should not be relaxed 
to obtain a cheaper and more efficient percussion shell than Boxer-shrapnel. 
(See para. 25.) 
(2) The present proportions of 5-seconds and 9-seconds wood time fuzes 
should, in the opinion of the Committee, be reversed, as the effects of time 
shrapnel have been shown to be considerable at ranges over 1700 yds., 
which is the limit of the 5-seconds fuze. The proportions carried with the 
16-pr. should correspond to those of the 9-pr. 
(3) Experiments should be instituted to ascertain whether a wood time 
fuze cannot be constructed to suit longer ranges than the present 9-seconds 
fuze, and at the same time, by a different graduation, obtain greater nicety 
of action. Such a fuze might supply the place of both the 5-seconds and 
9-seconds fuzes. 
The Committee have taken steps to procure an improved hook-borer for 
time fuzes. 
(4) The clinometer now issued to batteries is, in the opinion of the 
Committee, inadequate and out of date, and they recommend the introduction 
