AITCHISON'S PATENT POCKET FIELD GLASS

Only weighs 5 ounces,

Only 1-in. thick, closed.

THE ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE, Feb. 24th, 1900, says:—

"The question of bulk as well as weight should be well considered when selecting a glass for service. Many of the glasses which are now being taken out "to South Africa will never be used at all, owing to the nuisance of having a big "leather case bumping about on the shoulders. The Patent Pocket Field Glass, "however, which Messrs. AITCHISON, the Opticians, have made, will prove one of "the most useful accessories which a scout can possess, as it can be carried "readily in the pocket, can be brought into use very quickly owing to the system "of rapid focus used, and is at the same time more powerful than many glasses "three times its size."

No. 1, 6 LENSES, Achromatic

...

As Supplied to United States Army.

30

£3 3 0

50

No. 2, 12 LENSES, High Power... £5 5 0

As Supplied to British War Department.

HARD LEATHER SLING CASE, 5/- extra.

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Royal United Service Institution

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Vol. XLV.--15th APRIL, 1901.-No. 278.

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No. 1.-FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE_FREDERICK
SLEIGH, EARL ROBERTS, K.G., etc. (with Portrait)
II.-ARMY REFORM BASED ON SOME 19th CENTURY LESSONS
IN WARFARE. Lecture by Major-General C. E. Webber,
C.B., p.s.c., late R.E.

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421

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III.-TO INDIA: MILITARY, STATISTICAL, AND STRATEGICAL
SKETCH.-PLAN OF FUTURE CAMPAIGN. Translated
from the Russian of B. T. Lebedev, by Lieutenant H. C.
Holman, 16th Bengal Cavalry-(concluded)
IV.-INFORMATION RELATING TO THE CHINESE EMPIRE.
From the Russian of Lieutenant Z. Matusovski. Translated
by Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Gowan, Retired List, Bengal-
(concluded)
V.-CAVALRY NOTES.-SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900. By Captain
J. Vaughan, 7th Hussars
VI.-MODERN ARTILLERY. By Lieutenant A. T. Dawson, late R.N.
VII.-Naval Notes

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487

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XI.-Notices of Books, and Principal Additions to Library in
March, 1901

501

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IX.-Naval and Military Calendar for March
X.-Contents of Foreign Journals for March

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