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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
10. Lectures. —The following Lectures have been delivered during the 
year. 
F. A. Abel, F.R.S., Chemist to War Depart- - ) 
ment . ) 
Charles Bloxam, F. C. S., Lecturer onf 
Chemistry, Royal Military Academy .| 
Frank Buckland, M.A., F.Z.S. (late Asst. ( 
Surgeon 2nd Life Guards). \ 
W. B. Waterhouse Hawkins, F.L.S., F.G.S. 
Professor Huxley, F.B.S. 
T. Rymer Jones, F.R.S., Professor ofl 
Comparative Anatomy, King’s College, > 
London ... 
Dr Gottfried Kinkel, F.B.G.S., (formerly! 
Professor of the History of Art and >■ 
Literature in the University of Bonn) ... 3 
Dr Lancaster, F.B.S.. 
Professor Pepper, F.C.S. 
F. A. Schwarzenberg, B.A. ........ £ 
On Gun-cotton, with Experimental Illustra¬ 
tions. 
Modern Transmutation—a comparison be¬ 
tween the achievements of Chemistry 
and the aspirations of Alchemy. 
On “ Fish-hatching,” shewing the advan¬ 
tage of the propagation of Salmon and 
Trout, by Artificial Means. 
Graphic Lecture, on Natural History. 
On “ Man’s place in Nature.” 
On the Mechanics of Nature as illustrated 
by the structure and history of the various 
forms of Acalephse or Jelly-fishes. 
Art with the Ancient Egyptians, 
On the nature of Food. 
On Light, Optics, and Optical Illusions. 
On the Life and Achievements of Alex¬ 
ander von Humboldt. 
11. The Committee still invite Officers who have not sent their Photo¬ 
graphic likenesses to the Regimental collection to do so. Thanks are due to 
the following Officers for views of Foreign Stations, &c., contributed as 
under 
Four Photographic views of Malta. 
Large water-color painting of Gibraltar, by' 
Captain P. Jackson, R.A. 
Lithographic Drawing from the above . 
Photograph of Tein-Tsin, China, taken from' 
East Gate, looking west. 
do do looking south 
Sixteen Photographic Portraits of different 
Castes in India . 
Frame containing 20 Cartes-de-Visite of 
Officers ...... 
.. Lieut. H. M. Burgess, R.A. 
Captain P. Jackson, R.A. 
2 Lieut. C. E. B. Larcom,R.A. 
9 ( Captain M. H. Fitzmaurice, 
* I R.A. 
( Lt.-Col. J. Desborough, 
- I R.A. 
12. Model Room .—A few additions have been made to the Model Room 
consisting of— 
Model of Lieut.-Col. E. M. Boxer’s Parachute ) 
Light .) 
Model of a Gun-wheel, used by the late! 
Madras Artillery. > 
Ditto invented by Col. B. W. Black, R.A. 3 
Model of a 56-pr. Gun, on Dwarf Traversing \ 
Platform, made by the Donor.j 
Small Brass Gun, covered with leather . 
Pieces of cast-iron, broken in the machine 1 
for testing the strength of Metals, in the > 
Royal Gun Factory, Royal Arsenal . ) 
1 
2 
1 
1 
Royal Laboratory, Royal 
Arsenal. 
Colonel B. W. Black, R.A., 
late Madras Artillery, 
through Lieut. R. P. L. 
Welch, R.A. 
Captain F. A. Whinyates, 
R.A. 
Colonel G. R. Kennedy,R.A. 
2 Captain E. J. Bruce, R.A. 
