The United Service Magazine (Volume 1864, No. 3); With Which Are Incorporated the Army and Navy Magazine and Naval and Military Journal (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1864. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE ARTILLERY MUSEUM CATALOGUE. Sir, --Tho favourable) notice of the Artillery Museum in your last number induced me to pay a visit to that establishment, and I accordingly proceeded to Woolwich, and commenced operations by investing one shilling in tho purchase of the official catalogue. Now I have the greatest respect for Brigadier-General Lefroy, I honour tho clients of St. Barbara, and was extremely interested in all I saw, therefore I trust the remarks here made will be accepted in the spirit they are written, viz: that of improving the general interest of the Museum. The catalogue is no donbt carefully compiled and classified, but the unprofessional stranger finds much difficulty in discovering the description therein, of the articles exhibited, and thinks it rather meagre when found. For instance; feeling interested in the projectile case, where Armstrong shells and fuzes, neatly sliced, as if butter cut with a hot knife, are exhibited, I sought for information, but I sought in vain, for the case is labelled A or B, while the classification in the catalogue is numerically arranged; nor could the custodians to whom I appealed, assist me. The collection of small arms is very interesting, nevertheless it is difficult to find the regulation Enfield now used by the Line. The roll of fame on the centre pillar is a valuable record of distinguished Artillerymen, although the blank decades remind one of the tomb stones where the wife's name appears, and a space is left for the disconsolate widower. Who selects the men worthy of canonization, who " damns to everlasting fame," who is the Pope to the Royal Artillery and Engineers? I must ask permission to make a few corrections in the memoir of one of these Artillerymen, Major-General Thomas Phillips, as given at page...