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A Windfall

THE Institution has received, under the will of a civil servant of London, a legacy of ten guineas. The will was made in 1916, but the legacy to the Institution was contained in a codicil dated 7th December, 1929. That day was the height of the terrible gales of the winter of 1929-30, for on it the wind blew at the highest speed ever recorded in the British Isles, 110 miles an hour..