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ANNUAL MEETING-. 
Bros, new tube ignition gas engines has been purchased and placed in 
the old wetting down room in the basement, by this arrangement 
more space becomes available in the printing house and at the same 
time the sanitary conditions under which the compositors work are 
much improved. 
Kajie , s The new edition of Kane's List is going through 
the press and will be published at the expense of 
the Institution at a cost of about £550. When ready for issue it will 
be sold to members at the lowest possible price. The information 
contained in the old edition will be amplified, the late General 
Ask with's Notes (the work of many years of the latter part of his 
life) will be included, and in addition to war services, the foreign and 
staff services of all officers of the Regiment past and present, will be 
given up to the end of the year 1898. With so much new information 
to be added and such careful editing to be done the work progresses 
slowly and at the present rate the edition will hardly be ready before 
the 31st March 1900. 
Macdonald’s The History of the Dress of the Royal Artillery 
History of the wag published at the begining of the year 1899. 
Roy S a S i° f tl e Although the idea of publishing such a History 
Artillery. was conceived as far back as 1886, its having 
become an accomplished fact is due to the great interest taken in the 
subject, and the indefatigable exertions during the last seven years of 
the late Secretary of the R.A. Institution, Major Abdy. To his 
successor. Major Boileau, has only fallen the common place, though 
somewhat arduous task of delivering the book to the 1,050 guarantors 
and subscribers all over the globe and collecting the money due from the 
same. By this History the Regiment has received a valuable and inter¬ 
esting addition to its records and Capt. Macdonald, the young and talen¬ 
ted author of the work, has stepped into fame. The London press has 
reviewed the book most favourably and letters of commendation have 
been received from officers, past and present, of the Regiment 
throughout the world expressing their high appreciation of it. The 
book contains 25 coloured illustrations which were produced by the 
famous firm of Goupil & C ie ., Paris, and as the plates of these have 
now been destroyed no more can be printed. Only 1,500 copies of 
the book were published and of these 350 were reserved for guarantors 
and 700 for subscribers, the remaining 450 copies being disposed of 
to Messrs. Sotheran & Co. for public sale. 
Deaths. The number of deaths in the past year has been very 
large and includes the names of the following officers: 
Generals: C. Y. Bowie, T. E. Byrne, T. Cuming, L. H. Denne, 
H.M. Finlay, Sir W. H. Goodenough, k.c.b., G. Graydon, A. P. S. Green, 
H. L. F. Greville, C. R. Hill, T. I. M. Hog, Sir C. E. Nairne, k.c.b. 
H. Y. Timbrell and E. A. Williams, c.b., Col. Comdt.; Colonels: W. 
G. Andrews, F. J. Burridge, J. D. Cunningham, W. Delane, S. Gardiner, 
H. W. J. Hubback, J. R. King, P. L. Macgregor, A. H. Maclean, Sir Y. 
