FOR the eighth year running the Institution received at Christmas, from a lady in Hampstead, a gift of all the halfpennies she has collected during the year. Her collection for 1938 was 552. This was 182 more than in 1937.

Another collection, of 120 halfpennies, has come from a lady in Haslemere, her third collection during the year.

The Institution has also received two collections of farthings, one of 480 from a lady at Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and the other of 360 from the children of a Sunday School at Chelmsford..