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during the interval of the Annual General Meetings, the vacancy to be 
filled up by the Committee at their next meeting/ As vacancies 
usually occur during the interval, they are generally filled up by the 
Committee, but as this particular vacancy occurred just about the 
date of the general meeting, the Committee thought they would bring 
it up as a kind of a test case, and they would like to be informed by 
this general meeting on the point, viz., whether a new member of the 
Committee should be elected by the Committee or by the general 
meeting ? In one case it would be the voice of the whole of the 
members of the Institution, in the other it would simply be the Com¬ 
mittee themselves continuing on their succession to officers of their 
own choice. 
The Chairman : It is customary in commercial and other concerns 
if a vacancy occurs during the interval on the body of Directors, for 
that vacancy to be filled up by the Directors, for the time being, sub¬ 
ject to the approval and vote of the annual meeting. But when men 
go out regularly by rotation, it is the custom for it to be done entirely 
at the general meeting. Have you anyone to propose, General 
Maurice ? 
The Secretary : General Maurice will allow me to say that the 
Committee discussed this at their last meeting and they unanimously 
resolved to submit the name of Lt.-Colonel T. Perrott to the general 
meeting; he has been written to and is willing to accept office. They 
desire that the new member shall be an officer with a wide experience 
of Siege Artillery. 
The Chairman :—Has anyone any other name to propose, if so they 
had better put it in the form of an amendment ? 
No other proposals being made Colonel Perrott was unanimously 
elected a member of the Committee vice Major G. N. H. Barlow whose 
three years have expired. 
The Chairman :—If any gentlemen has any business to bring for¬ 
ward before we wind up the meeting I should be very glad to consider 
it (a pause). Then, gentlemen, I think we may bring the meeting 
to a close. The business seems to be all finished. I am a little bit 
sorry that in the Annual Report no notice has been taken of what I 
think is the most interesting thing that happened in the whole year, 
which was that meeting at the R. A. Institution on 29th November last, 
when we had that discussion on Lt.-Colonel Elmslie’s lecture on his 
experiences in Egypt which I most sincerely hope will be only the 
beginning of a series of those we shall have after every campaign 
that takes place whether there is a lecture or not. It seems to me 
that we ought at the Institution after every campaign to try to get the 
men together who were engaged in it and have a thorough discussion 
over the whole of the work that they did, especially in connection with 
the materiel used, to try to bring out what improvements are required 
and get from them what suggestions we can for changes in our tactics 
and so on. 
There is another matter that I cannot pass over without a personal 
remark or two, and that is this list of deaths. I feel, as has been 
