Mrs. Adam Maitland, who died on 5th October, was the founder of the Aberdeen Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and was chiefly responsible, with Mrs.

D. M. Kilgour, now its president, for making it one of the most successful in Great Britain. The Guild was founded in 1912, when Mrs. Maitland's husband was Lord Provost of Aberdeen, as the Aberdeen Ladies' Life-boat Auxiliary. For twenty-one years Mrs.

Maitland was its president, and when she retired from the presidency in 1933 and became one of its patrons, its yearly contribution had risen from £40 to nearly £400. Altogether, during these twenty-one years, the Guild had contributed nearly £5,000 to the life- boat service. On her retirement from the presidency, she received the In- stitution's gold badge..