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Tue R.A. Institution have copies of the undermentioned works bound in cloth, 
which can be bought by members at the price of 1s. each :— 
Colonel Walford’s Translation of Prince Kraft’s Letters on Infantry. 
35 copies. 
Colonel Walford’s Translation of Prince Kraft’s Letters on Cavalry. 
18 copies. 
They are the copies as published in Translations with the “ Proceedings ” and 
should be useful to members who have joined since the date of their publication. 
As a great many applications have been received for supply of copies of ‘ Field 
Artillery Drill, 1896,” the following remark of the Controller, H.M. Stationery 
Office, is published for the information of those who have applied: “The 1896 
edition is only in the proaf stage—and is not likely to be ready for some time.” 
RAT. “DUNCAN” PRIZE ESSAY, 1896. 
Tur Secretary has received Essays bearing the following mottoes in addition to 
those previously notified :— 
* Vigilentia non cadet.” 
“ Hold sure.” 
“At rest but ready.” 
“No loss no victory.” 
*“Cavendo tutus.” 
“Quis separabit.” 
“Semper vigilans.” 
R.A. INSTITUTION. 
The Annual General Meeting, R.A. Institution, will be 
held at the R.U.S.I., Whitehall, at 3 p.m. on Friday, 12th 
June, 1896. 
REGIMENTAL DINNER. 
His Royal Highness, the Colonel of the Regiment, has repeatedly expressed his 
disappointment at the numbers who attend the Regimental Dinner, especially in 
the junior ranks; in addition to this, many officers of the Regiment have ex- 
pressed an opinion that the dinner is too expensive. An effort is being made 
this year to bring about an improvement in both respects without lowering the 
high standard of excellence of the dinner and the wines. One item, viz. turtle 
soup, is withdrawn from the menu, and the cost of the dinner reduced by 3s. 
The question of the reduction in price has been gone into with great care, and 
it was found that the only way in which a reduction could be effected was 
either by adopting lower priced wines, or by striking out the most costly 
item in the menu, turtle soup; by no other rearrangement of the menu could 
anything like the same result be arrived at. Accordingly the question of ‘‘ No 
turtle soup anda reduction in the price of the dinner by 3s.,”’ was put to the 
vote; in the first instance the question was submitted to the members of the 
Dinner Club, with the result that there was a majority of nine to one in favour of 
the proposal; the same question was then put to all the Artillery Messes in the 
United Kingdom, with the result that the general opinion was found to be de- 
cisively in favour of the proposition. With this single exception then, the dinner 
