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The arrangement by which all stores supplied by the War Department are 
on local charge only, is a most advantageous one, as the Committee is 
enabled to procure direct from the Royal Arsenal the latest projectiles and 
stores in the service, and so make the model room one of the most 
instructive features of the Institution. 
12. Workshop .—This shop is in good working order, and has been 
much enlarged. 
13. Museum of Artillery .—The Secretary of State for War, in con¬ 
currence with ILR.IL the .Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, having 
approved of the Museum of Artillery at the Rotunda being entrusted to 
the Committee of the Royal Artillery Institution, the transfer took effect 
on the 17th May, 1870. 
A Sub-Committee has been appointed to assist the Secretary in its manage¬ 
ment, and every endeavour will be made to render it as instructive, and 
attractive to the general public, as possible. 
14. Lectures .—The lectures enumerated in the following list have been 
delivered in the Theatre of the Institution to members and their friends 
during the past winter, and they have been largely attended. Thanks are 
due to S. Brandram, Esq., M.A., Admiral Sir E. Belcher, K.C.B., Lieut.- 
Colonel A. W. Drayson, R.A., Lieut. W. H. Collins, R.E., Capt. M. C. 
Newall, R.A., and Lieut. J. R. Slade, R.H.A., for gratuitous service ren¬ 
dered in this matter. 
Rev. A. J. D’Orsey, B.T). 
Rev. Martyn Hart, M.A. 
S. Brandram, Esq., M.A. 
Lt.-Col. Drayson, R.A., E.R.A.S. .. 
Admiral Sir E. Belcher, K.C.B. 
Lieut. W. II. Collins, R.E., E.R.A.S 
Captain M. C. Newall, R.A. 
“ On Elocution as applied to Public Speaking.” 
“The World of the Sea.” 
Readings from various authors. 
" On the coming Transit of Venus.” 
( “ The great Equatorial Current, misnamed the 
l ‘ Gulf Stream.’ ” 
“ The Eclipse of December, 1870.” 
“ An Hour with the Poets.” 
The excellent geological collection of the Institution has not hitherto 
yielded all the results of which it is capable, from the absence of a qualified 
instructor. The science of geology is of such practical value, and officers 
in visiting remote and unexplored countries have such special opportunities 
of contributing to its progress, that due facilities should be offered in the 
way of its study. Before however making definite arrangements on this 
head, the Committee has resolved to ascertain by the experiment of a short 
course of lectures, the extent of interest taken by members in the subject.* 
These lectures are now in course of delivery. 
