_Lecture 14_.--Shoeing with the cold shoe. Different kinds of horse-shoe, &c. _Lecture 15_.--On stables. Food. Rations. _Lecture 16_.--Description and nomenclature of the saddle. Harness and pack. Various saddles. _Lecture 17_.--On work and rest. Horse and mule on the road and in bivouac. On diseases and accidents. Abstract of the course:-- Interior of the horse, 4 } 17 lectures at 1½ hours. Exterior, 6 } Total time, 25½ hours. Health, 7 } Credits, 25. The instruction on horseback can, under certain circumstances, be considered as connected with this course; and questions are asked during the time when the sub-lieutenants are not engaged in actual riding exercise. This instruction is described under the head of Practical Military Instruction; it comprises at the maximum 272 attendances, and its credit of influence is valued at 240. ARTILLERY AND ENGINEERS’ REGIMENTAL SCHOOLS. I. ARTILLERY REGIMENTAL SCHOOLS. These are intended for the theoretical and practical instruction of officers, _sous-officiers_, and gunners. Each School is under the orders of the General of Brigade commanding the Artillery in the military division in which it is situated. Independent of the general officer, the school has the following staff:-- A Lieutenant (associated assistant to the General.) A Professor of Sciences, applying more particularly to the Artillery. A Professor of Fortification, of drawing, and construction of buildings. Two _Gardes_ of Artillery (one of the first, and the other of the second class.) There are, in addition, attached to each school the number of inferior officers (captains, lieutenants, or _sous-lieutenants_) required for carrying on the theoretical courses, which are not placed under the direction of the professors. A captain of the first class, assisted by two first lieutenants, is the director of the park of the school. Another captain, also of the first class, but taken from the regiment of Pontooneers, has the direction of that portion of the bridge equipage necessary for the special instruction of this corps, as well as of the material of the artillery properly belonging to this instruction. The lieutenant-colonel, assistant to the general, fulfills, independent of every other detail of supervision with which he may be charged, the functions of _ordonnateur secondaire_, in what concerns the expenses of the school and their propriety (_justification_.) He corresponds with the minister of war for this part of the service. The instruction is divided into _theoretical_ and _practical_, and the annual course is divided into half-yearly periods, or into summer and winter instructions. The summer instruction commences, according to different localities, from the 1st of April to the 1st of May, and that of the winter from the 1st of October to the 1st of November. The winter and summer instruction is subdivided into school and regimental instruction.