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MINUTES OE PROCEEDINGS OE 
A list of members accompanies this Report. 
2. With regard to the financial condition of the Institution, the Com¬ 
mittee is glad to inform the meeting that it is in a sound and flourishing 
state, and that a further sum of £300 (realising £325 4<s. 1 cl.) has been 
invested in Three per Cent. Consols Stock during the past year. 
The general abstract shows the income and expenditure for the past year. 
3. Printing and Publication .—Yol. YI. of the “ Proceedings” has been 
completed, and four numbers of Yol. YII. have been issued, the papers 
enumerated in the annexed list having been published during the past year. 
Many of them are of great and permanent value. 
List of a Proceedings” printed during the year. 
The Mobility of Field Artillery; Past and Present. Py Lieut. PI. W. L. Hime, 
R.A. (No. I.) 
On the Arrangement of Expense Magazines, Shell Rooms, Small Stores, and 
Side-Arm Sheds for Batteries of Pleavy Rifled Guns. Communicated by the 
Director-General of Ordnance. 
On the Construction of Batteries. Bv Major Griffith Williams, R.A. ( Circa 
1780). Communicated by Major-General Lefroy, C.B., R.A. 
Heavy Rifled Guns. By Captain Haig, R.A., E.R.S. 
The Field Gun for India. A paper read at the R.A. Institution, Woolwich, 
February 22, 1870, by Colonel H. 11. Maxwell, R.A. 
A Description of the “ Scale of Shade,” for representing Ground in Relief. 
By Captain G. A. Crawford, R.A. 
Our Rifled Projectiles and Phizes; Present Construction and Probable Efficiency 
on Service. A paper read at the R.A. Institution, Woolwich, March 8, 1870, by 
Captain C. Orde Browne, R.A., Captain Instructor, Royal Laboratory* 
Remarks on Captain Nolan’s Range-finding Apparatus. By Lieut. C. E. B. 
Leacock, R.A. 
The Examination and Proof of Gunpowder, as carried on at the Royal Gun¬ 
powder Factory, Waltham Abbey. By Captain F. M. Smith, R.A., Assistant 
Superintendent. 
English Guns and Foreign Critics. By Captain Yivian Dering Majendie, R.A., 
Assistant Superintendent, Royal Laboratory. 
The Mohilitv of Field Artillery ; Past and Present. Bv Lieut. II. W. L. Hime, 
R.A. (No. II.) 
A Proposal for a Yery Heavy Breech-Loading Gun of Novel Construction. 
A paper read at the R.A. Institution, Woolwich, April 12, 1870, by Captain 
J. P. Morgan, R.A. 
Camel Guns. By Colonel H. PI. Maxwell, R.A., Superintendent Cossipore 
Gun Foundry. 
On Axle-tree Seats for Field Batteries. By Captain II. L. Balfour, R A. 
On the Re-Armament of Gibraltar. By Captain J. B. Richardson, R.A. 
A Proposal for the Drill of Gunners of Field Batteries at other than Regimental 
Exercises. By Captain and Brevet-Major IT. L. Geary, R.A., Adjt. 14th Brigade, 
R.A. (Field). 
Some Observations amongst German Armies during 1870. Bv Colonel II. A. 
Smyth, R.A. 
The Story of the 36-inch Mortars of 1855-58. By Major-General Lefroy, 
C.B., F.R.S., R.A. 
The Reform of Prussian Tactics. A Lecture delivered at the R.A. Institution, 
Woolwich, December 13, 1870, by Lieut.-Colonel C. C. Chesnev, R.E. 
