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The Future Armament of our Field Artillery. A Paper read at the R.A. 
Institution, Woolwich, January 16, 1871, by Lieut. C. Jones, R.A., Captain 
Instructor, Royal Gun Factories. 
The Merits of a Large Bore and Small Bore Contrasted, with reference to Rifled 
Artillery and Small-Arms. A Lecture delivered at the R.A. Institution, Woolwich, 
February 17, 1871, by Lieut. J. Sladen, R.A., Assistant Instructor, Royal 
Laboratory. 
Mounting of Twelve 12-ton Guns at Malta, 1870, by 10th Brigade, R.A. 
Short Notes on Professional Subjects , 1870. 
Experiments with an 8f-inch Krupp’s Steel Gun at the Polygon of Brasschaet. 
Experiments with a Krupp’s Steel Gun at the Polygon of Brasschaet against 
iron-plated Targets of the “Warrior” and “ Bellerophon” types. 
Boxer Shrapnel Shells for Rifled Guns. 
Table of Electro-Ballistic Experiments. 
Account of Experiments with Gun-cotton and Nitro-glycerine. 
Description of a Scale to be attached to instruments for finding the Distances 
of Ships at sea from elevated Coast Batteries. 
Memorandum, dated July 12, 1870, relative to the progress of experiments by 
the Committee on Explosives since Preliminary Report. 
The Line of Sight employed in laying Field Guns. 
Abstract of a Report of an Experiment carried out at Colombo, by Colonel Cox, 
Commanding Royal Artillery, Ceylon, to determine the penetration of round shot. 
Demolition of No. 87 Martello Tower by Gun-cotton, May 81, 1870. 
Pocket Sextant. 
Electro-Ballistic Experiments. 
On the best means of ensuring Accurate Practice at Shipping from elevated Coast 
Batteries. 
Piling of Shot and Shell—Elongated Projectiles. 
Picric Powder. 
Time and Percussion Fuzes for Field Artillery. 
Directions for the use of Captain Tracey’s Range Scale. 
Method adopted for hoisting in the 9-inch M.L.R. Gun at Fort Picklecoinbe, 
Plymouth. 
Captain J. P. Nolan’s Range-finder. 
Much interesting information has been published in the a Short Notes on 
Professional Subjects,” which have accompanied each issue of the “Pro¬ 
ceedings” since the last report, and it is hoped that an increasing number 
of members will aid in support of this means of imparting to their brother 
officers the observations and experience of individual members on subjects 
of professional and scientific interest. 
A revised copy of “ List of Service Ordnance and Ammunition,” cor¬ 
rected to 31 st March, has been issued to each member, and it is gratifying 
to know that this publication has proved eminently useful. 
A copy of the monthly Regimental Lists is now circulated to members 
with each number of the “ Proceedings.” 
A memoir of the late Field-Marshal Sir Hew Dairy in pie Ross, G.C.B., 
compiled from original MSS. in possession of his family, is in course of 
publication. There are few chapters in the history of the regiment more 
interesting than the military biography of this distinguished officer, extending 
as it* does over a period of 73 years, during which time the Royal Artillery 
