No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.

Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary secretary and treasurer of the Glasgow branch from 1911 to 1927, its chairman from 1927 to 1934, and its vice-president until his death. He found time for his work for the life- boat service in the midst of many other activities and interests. He was one of Glasgow's leading shipowners and business men, a director of the National Bank of Scotland, and a well- known art collector. The branch was most fortunate in having as its active head a man who held such a distin- guished position in the life of the city, and during his twenty-five years' association with the branch it was largely through his personal interest, energy and influence that Glasgow was raised to the position of the first branch, not only in Scotland, but in the whole of the British Isles.

In 1911, the first year of his honorary secretaryship, the branch's contribution was £1,651. During the next four years it rose steadily each year to £3,298 in 1915. But the great advance was made during the years 1929 to 1935. In those six years Glasgow was four times at the head of the list of branches. In the other two years it was second only to the City of London. Its highest contribution was £14,733 in 1933. Its total contribution for the twenty-five years of Dr. Gow's work was £108,739.

Those figures speak for themselves, but S arhaps the most noteworthy feature of r. Gow's work has been the number of large special gifts which have been received from Glasgow citizens. Since 1929 six motor life-boats have been stationed on the Scottish coast which are gifts or legacies from Glasgow, and a seventh, bearing the city's name, has been built in recognition of its generous support. No branch can claim, in recent years, such a record as that. Dr.

Gow was awarded the life-boat picture in 1923, and in 1930 he was elected a vice-president of the Institution. At the funeral, the Institution, the Scottish Life-boat Council, and the Glasgow branch were represented by Mr. James Bryce Allan, a member of the com- mittee "of management, who succeeded Dr. Gow as chairman of the branch in 1934..