THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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Report of the Committee on Promotion and Retirement of Officers of the Ordnance 
Corps. Two copies. 
The Campaign of 1866 ; A Tactical Retrospect. Translated from the German, by 
Colonel H. A. Ouvry. 
Regulations for the Great Manoeuvres of the Prussian Army, 29tli June, 1861. 
Manual of Gunnery for Her Majesty’s Fleet. 
Colonel Frome, R.E., on Surveying. 
Text Book of Science. Elements of Mechanism. 
Nautical Almanac of 1871-72-73. 
Prussian Work on Rifled Field Guns, by Major Roerdansz. 
O’Byrne’s Collection of Army Circulars and General Orders for 1867-68-69. 
The British Army and its Reserves. 
Prussian Infantry, 1869. 
Lessons of War, as taught by the Great Masters. By Lt.-Col. J. F. Soady, R.A. 
Publication of the Palseontographical Society for 1870. 
Polygonal Fortification, and Atlas; treatise on. 
The Imperial Calendar. 
Owen’s Modern Artillery. Two copies. 
Manual of Electricity, by H. M. Noad. 
Lavallie’s Physical, Historical, and Military Geography. 
Percy’s Metallurgy of Lead. 
The Military Resources of Prussia and France. 
Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-crystallic Action, by Tyndall. 
A System for forming the Regular Troops, Militia, and Volunteers into an Army. 
Taubert’s Field Artillery. Translated by Lieut. H. H. Maxwell, Bengal Artillery. 
Arundel Society Plates. 
Jesus and His Disciples at Emaus. 
Christ and Mary Magdalene in the Garden. 
The Triune God, the Virgin Mary, and St. John the Baptist. 
5. Museum .—A list of the various donations to the museum accom¬ 
panies this report. 
During the past year the following additions have been made to the 
natural history collection—viz., a white tiger skin, very valuable and rare 
(shot at Mowlee, Jynteeah Hills, India) by Capt. C. W r . Wilson, R.A.; 
head and horns of Thibetan and Indian antelopes, by Lieut. J. Biddulph, 
19th Hussars; a very interesting collection of animals and birds, with a few 
shells, from Madagascar, by Lieut. J. C. Robinson, R.A.; a pair of Bengal 
florikens, by Brig.-General Bourchier, C.B., R.A.; insects and eggs from 
Australia, by Capt. Sandilands, R.A.; some birds from Canada and India, 
by Lieut. A. G. Yeatman, R.A., and Lieut. Beadnell, R.A., respectively; a few 
fine specimens of birds from Australia, by Asst.-Surgeon Fiddes, M.B., R.A.; 
16 birds from China and 41 hummingbird's, by Mr. H. WThtely; 7 birds 
from Alderney, by Lieut. G. Montgomery, R.A. For all these the best 
thanks of the Institution are due to the donors. 
Of British birds only one new specimen has been presented—viz., a male 
capercaillzie, by Capt. J. S. Stirling, R.A. The Committee has been 
enabled to obtain, by purchase, 23 choice specimens, it being most desirable 
that the collection of birds of the British Isles be made as complete as pos- 
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