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trated description of the figures and their arms ; this description was 
sent to the Secretary of State for War who expressed high approval, 
ordered it to be bound and deposited in the Institution. 
The thanks of the meeting to Capt. 0. Orde-Browne for the valuable 
work he has done in the Rotunda Museum were unanimously voted. 
Among the deaths are to be noted the names af the following Deaths 
officers :— 
General Sir J. Abbott, K.C.B., Col.-Commdt. ; Major-Generals W. 
Tod-Brown, C.B., J. L. Bolton, R. B. McCrea; Colonels E. Lyons, 
W. Gilbert, C.B., H. H. Murray, F. Howard; Lieut.-Colonels A. J. 
Anderson, C. E. B. Leacock ; Major L. Barrett; Captain II. G. Birch ; 
Lieutenants T. Jones, H. T. Earquhar, C. A. Earle, B. W. Holman, 
A. A. Boggs and H. G. E. Geary. 
Readers of the Notes of ‘ Proceedings 5 have learned of the loss Death of ^ 
sustained by the Institution through the death of Sergt.-Major A. E. Ser Iryant° r . 
Bryant on 6th February. Owing to failing health the Committee had 
granted him a pension from the funds in addition to his Chelsea pension ; 
he left his employment and residence in the building on the 1st February 
and died in five days from failure of the action of the heart. The 
Committee have allowed his widow a sum of £26 a year for four 
years, at the end of which time her youngest child should have left 
school; they feel sure the meeting will approve of this mark of their 
appreciation of the services rendered for more than thirty years to the 
Institution by Sergeant-Major Bryant. 
The subject of the Essay for the “ Duncan” Gold Medal, 1897, Go ^£f“ dal 
was “ Coast Artillery Practice ; how best to conduct it with regard to 1897 
the requirements of actual warfare.” 
Major-General H. Le G. Geary, C.B., Rear-Admiral A. Douglas, 
R.N. and Colonel F. G. Slade, C.B., kindly consented to act as Judges. 
The large number of twenty-five essays were submitted and the Judges 
recommend that :— 
The writer of the essay bearing the motto e Semper paratus 3 be 
awarded the ( Duncan 3 Gold Medal; that the writers of the essays 
bearing the mottoes— f The simpler the better 3 and ‘All things are 
ready if our minds are so ’ be commended and their essays be published. 
In presenting their recommendations, the judges state that they 
were independently unanimous as to their decision and they think that 
the essays as a whole bear valuable testimony to the thought and 
interest officers are taking in their profession in the Garrison Artillery 
as compared to the lack of interest which prevailed within living 
memory ; further, they think the increased liberality on the part of the 
War Office has met with its just reward. 
The Secretary opened the sealed envelopes and announced that 
Capt. H. S. Jeudwine, R.A., is the winner of the Gold Medal; Capt. 
N. W. H. Du Boulay, R.A. and Lieut. C. G. Yereker, R.A. are commen¬ 
ded. 
Honoraria of Five Pounds were voted to each of the writers of the 
commended Essays. 
