IRELAND succeeds in making even her visitors Irish. We have had a report from Ireland from one of our organisers, who is not an Irishman, which begins : " In reply to my letter addressed to the old Honorary Treasurer (who had not reported that he was dead or had resigned) . . . " It is only fait to add that the Institution has had a report from one of its Scottish Stations, in which it is stated that the only difficulty experienced by the crew when out in a heavy gale was from the heavy spendthrift coming aboard. Needless to say, this alien and obese intruder, so foreign to the bracing air of Scotland, was instantly removed. He must have been carried up by a Southerly gale..