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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
further sum of £150 (realising £161 Is. 6d.) has been invested in 
3 per cent. Consols Stock during the past year. 
The abstract of the year's income and expenditure is shewn on the 
opposite page, and it will be seen by the D r . and C r . account, which 
is attached thereto, that the Institution has now a Balance C r . of 
£2423 4s. 
3. Printing and Publication .—Four numbers of Volume VI. of the 
“ Proceedings " have been issued (Nos. 8, 10, and 11 being double 
numbers), and the papers enumerated in the annexed list have been pub¬ 
lished during the past year, very many of them being of great interest ; 
and the Committee begs to express its thanks to those gentlemen who 
have contributed to the “ Proceedings." In addition to the four 
numbers of “ Proceedings," three pamphlets on promotion, and a 
lecture by Dr. Buskin, have been issued to each member. 
List of “ Proceedings " printed during the year . 
Organization for the Transport of large bodies of Troops on Bailways. By 
Captain J. T. Barrington, B.A. 
Old Woolwich. By J. Hewitt, Esq. 
The Field Artillery of the Great ^Rebellion; its nature and use. By Lieut. 
H. W. L. Hime, B.A. 
Heaton’s Steel Converting Process. Communicated by Captain E. Keate, B.A. 
A Table of the Names of the Great Ordnance now used, extracted from “ The 
Complete Souldier,” Auctore Thomas Smith, 1628. Communicated by Colonel 
H. Clerk, B.A., F.B.S. 
Annual Report and Abstract of Proceedings of a General Meeting of the Boyal 
Artillery Institution, held on May 19th, 1869. Colonel A. Benn, B.A. in the chair. 
The new Field Artillery of Mattei-Bossi, translated from the Italian of 
<c L’Opinione,” 23rd-26th October, 1868, with a note by the Translator. By 
Colonel H. H. Maxwell, B.A. 
The Theory of Gun Architecture. By Captain F. S. Stoney, B.A., Captain 
Instructor, Boyal Gun Factories. 
Austrian Mountain Artillery. By Friedrich Muller, Captain I. and B. Austrian 
Artillery Staff. Second edition, Vienna, 1868. Translated from the German, by 
II. II. Maxwell, Lieut.-Colonel B.A., and Brevet-Colonel. 
Central Asia, and our Military Position on the North-West Frontier of India. 
A paper read at the B.A. Institution, Woolwich, by Colonel John Adye, C.B., B.A. 
January 20th, 1870. 
The Construction of our Heavy Guns. By Captain F. S. Stoney, B.A., Captain 
Instructor, Boyal Gun Factories. 
Short Notes on Professional Subjects , 1869. 
Trial of improved Chassepot’s, fired in comparison with the Martini-Henry arm 
for accuracy, at 500 yards range. 
Experiments to ascertain the Penetration of Small-ann Bullets into various sub¬ 
stances. 
Mallet’s 36-inch Mortar. 
“ In Memoriam” of the late Lieut. H. E. Baines, 10th Brigade, B.A. 
On Lyson’s improved signals for rifle practice. By Captain and Adjutant 
F. Duncan, B.A., M.A. ? D.C.L., F.G.S., F.B.G.S. 
