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In consequence of his report, the Committee have given notice that the Teles¬ 
cope is never to be used unless v Sergt.-Major Bryant or Corporal McCoubrey be 
present; their attendance can always be secured by applying to the Secretary, 
R.A.I. Both these X.-C. Officers understand the instrument, its parts and 
working. 
Majoe-Geneeal F. W. Stubbs, Retired list, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, is 
compiling a List of Officers who have served in the Regiment of Bengal Artillery 
from its first formation down to its absorption into the Imperial List. 
It will consist of about 40 pages 4to, in paper cover. Price, 5s. 
Any Officer who may wish to subscribe for a copy, should send his name and 
address to 
Major-General F. W. Stubbs, 
Dromiskin House, 
Castlebellingham, 
Ireland. 
Judging from letters that have lately been filling the Times few would think 
that there are civilians in England whose one recreation and enjoyment in life is 
the collection of every available atom of History and Records of the British Army. 
Yet this is so, and it has been the privilege, of the writer of this article to make 
the acquaintance of such a man and to inspect his treasures quite recently, and it 
is with a view to describe what was then shown that this is written. 
In the course of a conversation on Regimental History it was casually 
remarked that an officer, who was compiling the history of an infantry regiment, 
had been referred to a certain merchant or man of business in the City, who took 
a great interest in military matters ; further enquiries were made, and resulted in 
a letter of introduction to the merchant, Mr. A., who expressed his readiness to 
show his collection on any Saturday afternoon. 
A Saturday was fixed and the writer, with a brother officer much interested in 
the study of the dress of the Royal Artillery, presented themselves at the hos¬ 
pitable house of Mr. A. 
The wealth of matter displayed is almost beyond description ; hearing that one 
of his visitors was artistically fond of the study of dress, Mr. A. produced folio 
after folio of water-coloured and engraved pictures of uniform, and these not for 
one regiment or section of the army only, but a separate folio for each ; thus, for 
the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers there was a large volume of two figures 
on each page, illustrating every known change in the dress from 1688 down to a 
recent date. In the same way there were separate volumes for Cavalry, Guards 
and Infantry. Most of the Royal Artillery are in water-colours, by Conroy, and 
though perhaps not very valuable as works of art are, by him, carefully painted, 
correct to the authority provided. 
Mr. A. possesses every modern illustrated .book on the army, including the 
popular children’s publications, and..has., a scrap book filled with nearly 200 mili¬ 
tary Christmas cards sent to him by friends from year to year. 
Among miscellaneous pictures Mr, A. has, three very fine engravings showing 
a Pioneer, a Light Infantryman and a Grenadier of the time of the middle of 
the Eighteenth Century ; also a set of most beautifully coloured engravings of the 
various historical points of the battlefield of Waterloo, and with them a picture of 
the Royal Artillery driving away the Erench guns captured at Waterloo, these are 
all dated 1815, with a note stating that they were from sketches made on the spot. 
Of “Army Lists” Mr. A. has a splendid collection, commencing from 1755, 
and of works of a similar nature, but previous to this, he has calendars which 
contain names of field officers and stations of regiments from 1748 ? Millan’s 
