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proficiency in Military History at the final examination of the Staff College. 
To this Officer the thanks of the Committee are specially due. The Com¬ 
mittee gladly acceded to a request made by the Inspector of Studies at 
the Royal Military Academy for the attendance of a limited number of 
Cadets at these Lectures. 
The Committee also desire to express their thanks to Major-General 
Wilford, R.A., for an introductory Lecture kindly delivered by him on the 
general subject of the Study of Military History and the Art of War, and 
also for a Lecture on the Defence of Canada; likewise to Colonel F. Eardley- 
Wilmot, R.A., to Captain Chesney, R.E., to Mr Bloxam, and to Mr Warriner, 
for the interesting Lectures stated opposite their names. 
Lectures have also been delivered in the Theatre of the Institution 
on Friday mornings and afternoons to the Advanced Class of Artillery 
Officers, by Dr Percy, F.R.S. on Metallurgy, by Mr Bloxam, F.C.S. on 
the Chemistry of Warlike Stores, and by Mr Anderson on Practical 
Mechanics. Members and Honorary Members are invited to attend. 
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Lectures delivered during the year } 1864-5. 
Dr Lankester, F.E.S .... 
Captain Chesney, E.E. Professor of I 
Military History, Staff College, > 
Sandhurst .) 
Dr Gottfried Kinkel, F.E.G.S. (for-} 
merly Professor of the History of [ 
Art and Literature in the Univer- 
sity of Bonn). 
The Eev. A. J. D’Orsey, B.D., 
Lecturer in Public Reading at 
King’s College, London. 
John Bennett, F.E.A.S. . 
Frederick Field, F.E.S .. 
Dr Lankester, F.E.S. 
J. K. Lord, F.Z.S.. 
Edmund Wheeler, F.E.A.S. 
Robert Hunt, F.E.S. 
Col. F. Eardley-Wilmot, R.A , F.E.S. 
Gr. Warriner, Esq. 
Maj.-Gen. E. H. Wilford, E.A. 
Charles L. Bloxam, F.C.S., Lecturer 
on Chemistry, Eoyal Military 
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Subjects. 
On Narcotics—Alcohol. 
Campaigns of General Grant. 
The Pompeian House at the Crystal Palace, 
or how people were lodged in olden times. 
The birth, growth, and kindred of our mother 
tongue. 
Clocks and Watches. 
On the colours derived from Coal Tar. 
On Narcotics—Tea, Coffee, and Tobacco. 
A ramble along the Boundary Line from the 
Praser River to the Rocky Mountains. 
The Planets and their Attendants. 
The Physics of the Sun’s surface. 
The Bronze Age. 
On Pood and its uses. 
The Defence of Canada. 
On Contrivances for kindling fire. 
