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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING R.A.I. 
H.R.H. The Commander-in-Chief, Patron and President of tlie R.A. Insti¬ 
tution, has approved of the Annual General Meeting of the Institution being held 
at 3 p.m. on Friday, 10th June, in the Lecture Room of the Institution of Civil 
Engineers, 25, Great George Street, Westminster. 
This Lecture Room has been most kindly placed at the disposal of the R.A.I. 
by the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 
At the general Meeting, the Committee intend to bring forward the following 
resolutions, viz. :— 
(1.) That the Committee remain as now constituted ; that all Corresponding 
Members be extra members of the Committee, having a vote when 
they attend meetings of the Committee; that notice of all Committee 
Meetings be sent to Corresponding Members, either on home service 
or on leave at home from abroad. 
(2) That all proposed changes of the Rules should be notified in R.A.I. 
“ Proceedings ” in, what seems to the Committee, sufficient time 
before the General Meeting to which such changes are to be submitted 
to enable Members to form their views on them. 
Consequently, that Rule XX. be as follows :— 
XX. No alterations or additions to be made to these Rules, unless 
a notice in writing, specifying the alteration or addition to be pro¬ 
posed, shall have been posted on the Notice Board at the Institution 
for fourteen days previous to the General Meeting: and unless the 
alteration or addition shall have bfeen published in the Notes of the 
R.A.I. “ Proceedings ” in, what seems to the Committee, sufficient 
time before the General Meeting. 
(3.) That sanction be given for the removal from the Laboratory in the R.A. 
Institution building of all the furnaces and other fittings, and for the 
sale of chemicals therein with a view to extending the Museum. 
(4.) The Committee submit to the Annual Meeting (in accordance with Rule 
II., last para.) for election as special honorary members of the 
Institution the names of the following gentlemen:— 
Lieut.-General Sir Evelyn Wood, Y.C., G.C.B., &c., &c., Command¬ 
ing Aldershot Division. 
W. Anderson, Esq., M.I.C.E., D.C.L., Director General of Ord¬ 
nance Factories. 
The Committee will be glad to receive suggestions of a subject for the “ Duncan” 
Gold Medal Prize Essay, 1893. 
All suggestions will be submitted to the Annual General Meeting for discussion 
and selection. 
The General Meeting will be succeeded by a consideration of the Regimental 
Charities and probably of the R.A. Games’ Fund. 
R.A.I. “ DUNCAN ” PRI^E ESSAY, 1892. 
The Secretary has received Essays bearing mottoes :— 
“ Reculer pour mieux sauter.” 
“ Experience is by industry achieved, &c.” 
“ S’arreter c’est de retrograder.” 
“ Arma virumque.” 
“ He, that builds a fair house, &c.” 
“ A raven rising proper.” 
in addition to those mentioned in March “ Proceedings.” 
