As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in- dividual contributions of that amount, but, just before Christmas, a number of collectors of farthings very kindly sent in their collections.

One box contained 92 farthings, another 125, and another 164. Another box, containing 100, was sent by a lady who explained that they were her late husband's poker chips. Yet another was evidently the collection of years, for it contained 78 Victorian farthings, among which nearly every year was represented from 1860 to 1896.

The largest collection was 2,080, or £2 3s. 4d. It came from Whitstable with an odd little collection of coins—a quarter-anna dated 1835, a Petersfield promissory halfpenny dated 1793, a token with the words : " O.P., John Bull's Jubilee. Clifford for Ever," and a Royal Artillery Canteen token, issued by Gregory Brown as " tenant by appointment of the War Department." This last has been presented to the Royal Artillery Institution Woolwich.

A gift of 7s. 6d. has also been received, the result of a farthing collection in an infants' school at Hampstead.

For the third year the Institution received a gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. The collection numbered 564, or £1 8s. 6d.

These gifts have been gratefully received, although the paying in of the farthings has nearly caused an estrange- ment between the Institution and Messrs. Coutts, who have been its bankers for over fifty years..