NOTES 
FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
The Annual General Meeting of the R.A. Institution will take place at 3 p.m. on 
Friday the 15th June in the Lecture Theatre of the Royal United Service Insti¬ 
tution, Whitehall. 
The Committee intend to propose the following alteration in the Rules :— 
Para. 3 of Rule II. on page 2 to read—“ The Committee shall have power to 
elect as honorary Members such gentlemen connected with Naval and Military 
arts and sciences as they from time to time think fit: and for short periods, 
officers of the Army and Navy who may be temporarily in the garrison or 
neighbourhood,” instead of as it now stands. 
After the business of the Institution is finished the R.A. Charities, R.A. 
Games’ Fund, and R.A. Cricket Club will be considered. 
Anyone wishing to bring to the notice of the meeting any point concerning one 
of these funds or club is requested to communicate with the Hon. Secretary of 
such fund, Woolwich. 
It is presumed that by this time a large majority of artillery officers have read 
the greater part, if not all of the “Army Book of the British Empire,” by Lieut.- 
General Goodenough, C.B., and Lieut.-Col. Dalton, aided by various contributors. 
More or less lengthy criticisms of it have appeared in print, and it is not our 
intention to add another to the number. It is enough for the purpose of these 
“Proceedings” to simply record our satisfaction that a book, which has excited 
such Army wide interest and evoked such a chorus of approval, has been compiled, 
and for the most part written, by officers of the Regiment. 
We have now, for the first time, access to a hand-book of information; not only 
on the broad principles which govern the administration of the army, but also on 
the historical causes which have determined them, with a considerable amount of 
detail which the application of these principles requires. 
It must, we fear, be acknowledged that great ignorance has hitherto prevailed 
among the officers of the army as to the system under which the various Corps 
and Departments, other than their own, are organised and administered. It does 
not always fall to the lot of a British officer to serve with a force in which all 
these Corps and Departments are represented; and it may be that many of us, 
when our good fortune has placed us with the army in the field, have for the first 
time made acquaintance with the special duties which the component parts of a 
field army are called upon to perform for the common good. 
There used to be some excuse for this ignorance, as information on these 
points was by no means ready to hand. Now there is none: and we submit, the 
thanks of the army are due to General Goodenough and Colonel Dalton for hav¬ 
ing given us a book of such professional value and, we may add, of such absorbing 
interest. 
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