AN Oxford Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund was formed in 1900 by the late Commander Maunsell, R.N., and Mr. Belcham, Headmaster of St. Peter-iu-the-East School, who still takes a keen interest in the work of the Institution. By means of Life-boat Days and processions, and some houseto- house collecting carried on by a small committee of ladies, the Oxford Life-boat Saturdays raised, during the next eleven years, just over £1,000 for the Institution. In 1911, when the work of the Life-boat Saturday Fund was taken over by the Institution, an Oxford Branch was formed, and Miss Alice Marshall became the Honorary Secretary. As a daughter of the late Rev. Jenner Marshall, Lord of the Manor of Westcott Barton, and granddaughter of the Rev. Edward Marshall-Hacker, of Iffley Rectory, Enstone, and Sandford St. Martin, she comes of a family long and closely connected with Oxfordshire.

By ten years of enthusiastic and untiring work Miss Marshall, with her band of helpers, has made the Oxford Branch one of the largest and most generous of all the inland branches of the Institution, and has enlisted the help, as patrons and officers, of the leading members of the University, City and County.

How successful her work has been the following very striking figures show.

In the last year of the Life-boat Saturday Fund Oxford contributed just over £100 to the Life-boat Service. During the first four months of the Branch's existence it raised just under £140r. In 1920, its tenth year, it sent to the Institution £1,150, being eleventh in the list of Branches, and contributing more than any except such great ports and wealthy manufacturing cities as Liverpool and Glasgow. Edinburgh and Birmingham..