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ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
PIPTY-BIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MBBRING 
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THE Meeting was held in the Lecture Theatre, Royal United~Service- i 
Institution, Whitehall, at 3 p.m., Friday, 7th June, 1895. 
Lieut.-General E. F, Chapman, O.B., Director of Military Intelligence, 
took the Chair at 3 p.m., and asked the Secretary to read the Report ; 
as follows :— 
The number of Members joining is one more than in the preceding Annual Report 
year. 
The Library continues to increase, and soon the Committee will have 
to face the question of further extension. 
During the Winter Season there were nine Lectures, and the attendance _ Lectures. 
at all of these was excellent. This season, as last, the Committee have 
twice been ‘At Home,’ at 4 p.m., and on each occasion the reception was 
succeeded by a Lecture; that in November given by Professor 
C. V. Boys, F.R.S., on “ Quartz Fibres,” and that in March by Doctor 
Bowdler Sharpe, F.R.S., LL.D., on “ Curiosities of Bird Life ;” each was 
thoroughly appreciated by a crowded audience. The latter Lecture has 
drawn attention to the fine Ornithological Collections and Library 
belonging to the Institution. The Lecture by Major E. 8. May, R.A., 
on the 7th March, on the “Co-operation of Guns with Cavalry,” 
secured a large attendance; the Lecture and discussion have been 
published in a recent number of the ‘Proceedings,’ and the Com- 
mittee think it should prove interesting to each service. 
The other Lecturers were Major A. J. Hughes, R.A., on “ Oke- 
hampton, 1894;” Lt.-Col. J. R. J. Jocelyn, R.A., on “Coast 
Artillery in Action ;” T. M. Maguire, Esq., LL.D., on “General 
Bourbaki’s Campaign ;” Major P. A. MacMahon, F.R.S., R.A., on 
“Terrestrial Refraction and Mirage ;” Victor Horsley, Esq., F.R.S., 
on “Bullet Wounds of High Velocity Small Bore Rifles ;” Captain 
M. Horace Hayes, F.R.C.V.S., on “The Horse from a Military Point of 
View.” 
Among the Gifts received, the most valuable is the Collection of Gifts. 
Dickson Manuscripts, notes and papers ; these consist of diaries, note 
books, commentaries, and correspondence of the late Major-General Sir 
Alexander Dickson, G.C.B., K.C.H., R.A., and of his son General Sir 
Collingwood Dickson, Q),€., G.C.B., R.A., by whom they were presented 
to the Institution. They are contained in four large chests which are 
deposited in the Instrument Room, and the Committee have authorised 
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