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ANNUAL 11EP0UT 
AND 
ABSTBACT OF PEOCEEDINGS OF A GENEEAL MEETING OF THE EOYAL 
AETILLEEY INSTITUTION, HELD ON JUNE 2, 1880. 
Colonel Tupper, R.H.A., in the Chair. 
1. The Committee beg to submit the Annual Report of the Royal 
Artillery Institution to the General Meeting of Members. 
2. There are now 1565 Members of the Institution wide Appendix, 
Table C). During the past year 61 officers have joined the Institution, 
whilst the deaths and withdrawals have amounted to 51, showing an 
increase of 10 in the year. 
The number of deaths which have occurred in the year has been 
unusually large. Amongst them are to be noted those of Generals 
Sir F. Warde, Sir W. Ingilby, Moore, and Huyshe; Colonel Bruce 
(formerly Secretary of the Institution), Major Ward-Ashton (a Member 
of the Committee), Captain Shafto, Lieuts. Nicholson, Montanaro, 
Hardy, and Wright, killed in action. 
3. The financial condition of the Institution is very satisfactory 
[vide Table B); the general credit amounting to £2998. 
4. The French and German Classes held in the Institution have 
been well attended. The Landscape Drawing Class has retained its 
popularity. Classes assisted by Institution funds have also been held 
at five out-stations for the study of French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, 
and Landscape Drawing. 
5. The Committee have recently undertaken the supply of foreign 
military periodicals to Members willing to furnish regularly, for 
publication with the “ Proceedings,” precis of their contents, as well 
as translations in full of important articles. 
The applications for the magazines under these conditions have 
been numerous, and the Committee trust that the publication of much 
valuable professional information hitherto comparatively inaccessible, 
will be the result of this experiment. 
6. The Committee propose to supply gratuitously Maps of Theatres 
of War, or of other localities of peculiar interest, to all Royal Artillery 
messes at home and abroad. A map of Afghanistan has already been 
distributed in this manner. 
7. A Tactical Model, after the plan of Major Wilkinson Shaw, has 
been erected in the Institution, which the Committee trust will be 
useful to officers desirous of studying Minor Tactics. The thanks of 
the Members are due to Major Wilkinson Shaw and to Colonel Haldane, 
for their very careful superintendence of its construction. 
8. The subject selected for the Prize Essay of the year was u The 
Attack of Entrenchments by Field Artillery.” 
