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FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNDAL GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
EOYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
The Annual General Meeting was held on the 15th June, 1894, at the 
Lecture Theatre, Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall. 
General Lord Roberts, QL£., took the Chair at 3 p.m. 
Among a large number of Members present were Lieut.-Generals 
Sir W. Stirling, K.O.B., R. J. Hay, K.C.B., E. F. Chapman, C.B., 
W. H. Goodenough, C.B. ; Major-General H. Le G. Geary, C.B. ; 
Colonels C. C. Trench, W. S. Curzon, G. J. Burgmann, A. E. Turner, C.B., 
and R. D. Eliott Lockhart. 
The Chairman invited the Secretary to read the Annual Report as 
follows :— 
The number of Members joining during the twelve months under Annual Report, 
consideration has been nearly the same as during the previous year ; the 
fact of young Officers not being commissioned for many months after 
leaving the Academy must always seriously affect the numbers who 
join. 
The increase in the Library continues ; during the year the Institu¬ 
tion has joined the Hakluyt and Navy Records Society, and reference 
to the Appendix (E) will show that all standard Military works 
have been bought as they appear. 
The number of Lectures has been greater by one than in the previous Lectures, 
year. On two occasions the Committee have been 4 At Home,’ at 4 p.m., 
previous to the delivery of a Lecture by an Officer in the Regiment. On 
each occasion a very large number of people availed themselves of the 
Committee’s invitation, and so successful were these 4 At Homes,’ that the 
Committee hope to repeat them next season. The Lecturers on the days 
of the 4 At Homes ’ were Major W. H. Williams, R.A., on 44 His Travels 
in Uganda and East Africa ; ” and Major H. C. L. Holden, R.A., on 
“ His Visit to Chicago.” 
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