360 KANE’S LIST AND MACDONALD’S HISTORY OF DRESS. 
Sabine from his close connection with the scientific world was able 
to bring forward younger officers of the Regiment for employment on 
scientific work and expeditions and it was in this way that Francis M. 
Eardley-Wilmot (No. 1773) and (Sir) J. FI. Lefroy (No. 1854) with 
other Royal Artillery officers were employed to take magnetic obser¬ 
vations at the Cape of Good Hope and North America respectively. 
Here each did good work but their chief title to Regimental fame and 
the gratitude of their brother officers lies in the fact that they were 
practically the founders of the Royal Artillery Institution. Their aims 
and objects are set forth in the Rules of the Institution and a short 
history of its formation will be found in the Preface to Vol. I. of its 
“ Proceedings ” ; but whenever the benefits of the Institution are con¬ 
sidered and discussed, the names of Eardley-Wilmot and Lefroy should 
be remembered. 
The list of eminent men of science serving in the Royal Artillery is 
a long one and happily continues unbroken to the present day. 
In the years 1836-38 a British Legion served in Spain to assist in 
the suppression of the Carlists ; several Royal Artillerymen served there 
with distinction, notably James N. Colquhoun (No. 1427), William H. 
Askwith (No. 1760) and (Sir) Collingwood Dickson (No. 1874); of 
these General Askwith died so recently as November, 1897, having 
lived to finish the great work of the close of his life namely the addition 
to “ Kane’s List ” of the foreign and war services of every officer in the 
book ; these additions are included in the new edition of “ Kane’s List ” 
now in the press and remain to bear testimony to the love and devotion 
he always felt for the Royal Regiment of Artillery. 
Sir Collingwood is the youngest son of Sir Alexander Dickson and 
nobly sustains the reputation of his Father; at the present time the 
title of Master-Gunner of St. James’s Park is vested in him and I hope 
he may be spared many years to enjoy this and all his other honours. 
Colquhoun was a man of great knowledge and good taste; he had 
been on active service in the Peninsula from 1812 to the end of the war 
and from his knowledge of Spain and the Spaniards was sent in com¬ 
mand of the Artillery of the British Legion ; in 1815 he had been ap¬ 
pointed British Commissioner to inspect and advise upon the articles 
in the Lrench Musee d’Artillerie at St. Germains with a view to their 
restitution to former owners or division between the Allies; many ar¬ 
ticles of the British share are in the Rotunda Museum and catalogues 
with notes of the Commissioners on all they found are among Colqu- 
houn’s MSS. now in the Royal Artillery Institution. Colquhoun on 
proceeding to Spain in 1836 compiled a drill-book for Mountain Ar¬ 
tillery ; this was the first of its kind and it is surprising how slightly it 
differs from that of the present day and how carefully he thought out 
all details. 
In the forties and fifties there were small expeditions and campaigns 
in South Africa and New Zealand; in the latter country especially 
several Royal Artillery officers distinguished themselves. 
In 1854 war was declared against Russia by England and France 
and expeditionary forces from these countries landed in the Crimea in 
September of that year; the battle of the Alma was fought on 20th 
