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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
WIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
Tue Meeting was held inthe Lecture Theatre, Royal United Service 
Institution, Whitehall on Friday, 12th June, 1896. 
Lieut.-General EH. Markham, Inspector-General of Ordnance, took 
the Chair at 3 p.m. and asked the Secretary to read the Report as 
follows :— : 
The number of Members who have joined the Institution is twenty- 
six more than in the preceding year. 
The chief extension of the use of the Institution has been the pro- Lectures at 
vision of lectures at large out-stations of a similar class to those given Sts 
at Woolwich ; those arranged were very successful but the new scheme 
of garrison instruction may possibly be found to interfere with their 
development, and the Committee have to be careful lest lectures be 
overdone and interest in them lost. 
The lectures at out-stations were :— 
At Dover, by Major W. D. Conner, R.H., on “ Incidents of Bush 
Warfare.” 
At Dover, by T. M. Maguire, Hsq., LU.D., on “ Military 
Geography of Hurope.” 
At Portsmouth, by Professor C. V. Boys, I.R.S., on “ The 
Photographs of Bullets in Flight.” 
At Devonport, by Lieut.-Colonel C. M. Watson, C.M.G., R.E., 
on “ The Nile and its Tributaries.” 
The Committee are much pleased that two out of the first four of 
these lectures should have been given by Officers of the Royal 
Engineers. 
Nine lectures were given at the Institution. The Commander-in- Lectures at 
Chief took the chair at Dr. Maguire’s lecture on “ Marlborough and #®-4-1. 
his methods of warfare ” and added greatly to its interest by narrating 
many little known details of the great Commander’s life and characteris- 
tics. Captain Pilcher’s lecture on “ Artillery from an Infantry Officer’s 
Point of View,’ was listened to by a very large audience and was 
followed by an interesting discussion. It is worthy of note that both 
Major May’s lecture on “The Co-operation of Guns with Cavalry” 
and Captain Pilcher’s, just mentioned, were afterwards given in Dublin 
to the Tactical Society of Ireland, and there met with due appreciation. 
Captain Du Boulay kindly consented to lecture on the Chino-Japanese 
War soon after his return from Japan; his lecture was given at the 
only ‘At Home” of the Committee last season and the theatre was 
so crowded that all standing room was occupied. 
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