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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
A List of Members is, for the first time, printed with this Report. It is 
not intended to repeat this every year, as a Yolume of “Proceedings” when 
completed (and containing probably more than one Annual Report) would 
thus be encumbered with many pages of names, needlessly adding to its bulk. 
Still it is thought that at intervals, of perhaps five or even ten years, such a 
record of the supporters of the Institution may be acceptable. 
2. With regard to the funds, the Committee are glad to inform the 
General Meeting that, by the produce of the sale of the “ Hand Book for 
Pi eld Service,” by economy, and by the steady improvement in the annual 
income, they have been enabled at the close of the year to re-invest a sum 
of £500 in 3 per cent. Consols stock, which sum was withdrawn about three 
years ago, when the funds were less flourishing, for the discharge of out¬ 
standing debts. 
The Committee are aware that a favourable Balance Sheet is by no means 
the only criterion of the prosperity of this Institution—the success of which 
is to be measured rather by what it effects for the good of its Members with 
the means at its disposal. 
The abstract of the year's income and expenditure is shewn on the 
opposite page. 
3. Printing and Publication .—Of the means at the disposal of the Com¬ 
mittee for effecting the most general good, under the present circumstances 
of the Regiment, the spread of information on professional subjects, through 
the printed “ Proceedings,” seems to be the chief. 
The annexed list of Papers, published during the year, shews a large 
increase in the amount of printed matter put forth; and it is hoped that, in 
professional interest, these Papers will not contrast unfavourably with the 
fruit of former years. 
While on this subject of publication, the Committee desire respectfully to 
acknowledge the existence of a more liberal disposition on the part of H.M. 
Government than prevailed in former times—a disposition to impart more 
freely the records of experiments affecting Artillery science; to permit the 
reprinting of these and similar papers; and, in some instances, to allow the 
Institution to avail itself of the Government type, to work off (at a consequent 
saving of time and cost) a sufficient number of copies of some good Report, 
for circulation among its Members. 
It is contemplated still further to increase the benefits here alluded to, by 
a grant of a limited number of copies of Selections made from the “ Quarterly 
Abstracts of the Ordnance Select Committee,” to be printed by the War 
Department, and distributed under conditions approved by the Right Hon. 
the Secretary of State for War and H.R.H. the Pield Marshal Commanding- 
in-Chief.* 
The advantage that may be expected from thus imparting knowledge on 
subjects of present interest, before that interest has died away unsatisfied, can 
hardly be over-rated, and calls for the thankful recognition of all who will 
benefit by it. 
* Since this Eeport was written, Parts I. and II. of these Selections have been issued. 
