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said in the report, that the Royal Artillery Institution as a body have 
sustained a very great loss in the death of my old friend Sir William 
Goodenough. Everyone who knew him respected him. There was 
no man who was a more thorough and conscientious soldier. There 
is another whose name, though given in the report, has been passed over 
without any special mention, and that is Sir Vivian Majendie, 
who was for many years a well known gunner, and then went to that 
important post of Inspector of Explosives, for the Home Office. He has 
done a great deal really for us, as well as for the civilian population of 
the country, by his studies in everything connected with the cause 
of explosions and the proper method of storing explosive compounds. 
He was not very long ago, President of the Danger-Building Committee, 
which has practically settled for us how our danger-buildings should 
be constructed, and I think he is a great loss to the Institution, of 
which, at one time, I know he was very fond, and with which he was 
closely connected. 
I have only to say in conclusion that I hope the Institution will go 
on and do as good work in the future as it has done in the past and 
that it will devote itself as much as is possible to what may be really 
called the professional work of our own profession; and it is in con¬ 
nection with that specially that I have suggested that we should have 
an occasional meeting for discussion—not necessarily preceded by a 
lecture at all—on important matters connected with our own profession. 
There are every now and then proposals made for discussions on subjects 
which at the moment it would not be wise to discuss. Those we 
must steer clear of. But, on the other hand discussions upon many 
subjects I think might with great advantage be held at the Institution. 
Gentlemen, I have to thank you for your attendance here to-day 
in such great numbers. 
The proceedings then terminated with a vote of thanks to] fc the 
Chairman. 
