NOTES 
FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
The Secretary lias a few copies of the new edition of “ Kane’s List ” which were 
not subscribed for. These are now on sale at £1 each. 
Any member who wishes can receive, at the cost of stitching and binding, about 
3s., a copy of the “ Cleaveland Notes on the Early History of the Royal Regiment 
of Artillery. A.D. 1267—1757.” 
The Records of the Royal Military Academy are about to be re-published in the 
original form, with additions and drawings, bringing it up to date ; the estimated 
cost will not exceed 12s. 6d. a copy. 
Any Officer who may wish for a copy is requested to send his name and address 
to the Secretary, R.M.A., Woolwich. 
A new “ Kane’s List ” having been recently published, and progress having been 
made in collating relationships of R.A. Officers past and present, Officers are 
requested to notify to the Secretary, R.A.I., any relationship existing between 
them and any other officer of the same name registered in “ Kane’s List.” 
The subject for the Duncan Grold Medal Prize Essay, 1892, is: “Fire discipline; 
its necessity in a Battery of Horse or Field Artillery, and the best means of 
securing it. 
Attention is called to the Rules for Prize Essays, &c., and Officers are asked to 
be careful in posting their essay intended for competition in time to reach the 
Secretary before the 1st of April. 
A most simple note-book has been designed by Captain S. W. Lane, R.A. to 
enable a Commanding Officer to range his Battery •without, working out any 
calculations. Its size will not exceed 4£ inches square. By an arrangement of 
folding flaps on the cover at each end it can be used for any range between 1000 
and 4200 yards. 
The Officer ranging writes down in the margin the range at which he opens 
fire, so that there may be no possible error as to which flap is in use, and after 
the first round notes + or — only in the columns opposite the range at which 
each shot is fired; he sees at a glance what elevation is midway between the last 
-1- and — and gives it out for the next round and again divides after it is 
observed until he can do so no longer, when he verifies and enters in another 
column opposite the range at which he has verified the length of fuze with which 
he begins shrapnel. 
The Secretary, R.A.I., has a sample book which he will be happy to send out 
“ on loan ” for inspection, and- he will also be glad to hear from Officers who 
think of ordering a copy on sale, in order that he may know how many to prepare. 
The cost will probably be about Is. a copy. 
The Committee have been asked to send out Regimental Lists earlier each month 
to any Officer willing to pay the extra expense of sending them separate. 
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