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Other Lectures are being arranged for delivery after Christmas, and if they are as 
well attended and appreciated as those noted above, the Committee will have every 
reason to congratulate themselves on this new feature in the advantages of the 
Institution. 
It is very gratifying that two out of the first four of this series of Lectures 
should have been given by Officers of the Royal Hngineers. 
Tue following forecast of promotion has been prepared with the assistance of 
Colonel Ii. Kensington, late R.A., to whom the thanks of the Regiment are due. 
Its value will be understood if reference be made to a similar forecast prepared by 
him in 1890; he there says that, in 1895, promotion to Major should include 
Captain Nelson and to Captain Lieutenant Glanville—at the time of writing Major 
Nelson is the last Major but one on the list having been promoted on the 11th 
November, and Lieutenant Glanville is 3rd for promotion so that his rank as 
Captain will probably bear some date in December. 
The results as worked out below show that before long promotion in every rank 
of the Royal Artillery will compare unfavourably with that of the Indian Staff 
Corps. 
PROMOTION. 
alestecen al Metta Genie Remarks, 
1896 | Perrott. McLeod. Butler. f 
1897 | Lane. Oldfield. Chepmell. 
1898 | Wodehouse. Balguy. Matthews. 
1899 | Ward. P. J. Crampton.| Laird. 
1900 | Hopkins. Brook-Smith. Parker. 
1901 | Purvis. Rodwell. Templer. ; 
1902 | Howard. Harrison. Gray. Major R. M. Crofton retires for age. 
1903 | Hardley-Wilmot.| Dodgson. Slater. : ae G.N. H. Barlow retires for 
1904, | Inglis. Graham. Bridges and 
Robinson. 
Subalterns will serve for 13 years but the rate will improve about 1906. 
Captains will serve for 21 years. 
Majors will serve for 27} years and the rate will probably get worse. 
The above forecast is based on a supposition that about the same number of 
Lieut.-Colonels as now are always to be extra regimentally employed and that 
casualties will occur in the same proportion per cent. as they have in the last five 
years. 
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