Miss J. McADAM of Monessie, Dalvreck, Crieff, has compiled instructions for a Montrose reel dedicated to the late Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, the Duke of Montrose. All royalties from the sale of the music and the instructions are being given to the Institution.

Mr. J. Sutton Gilbert of the White Hart Hotel, Brentwood, Essex, recently presented the Institution with a cheque for £8 10s. This amount had been collected in pennies stacked around the top of a flagon by his patrons.

# * * Mrs. S. L. Long, of the White Horse Hotel, Blakeney, Norfolk, has pre- sented the Institution with a cheque for £10 10,9. This sum was raised by the members of a "W.A.I.T." club, which has a complicated system of rules, the breaking of any of which leads to a fine from which the Insti- tution benefits.

* * * Mrs. D'Orsay Whitehead has col-lected £22 15s. Id. for the Institution largely by the sale of apples at eight- pence a pound.

The Institution has received a cheque for £67 7s. 5d. which represents the balance of the funds of the British Automobile Club in Diisseldorf, which was recently dissolved.

Mr. Patrick Hamilton, editor of the Layman, is presenting to the Institu- tion all the proceeds from the sale of five short books which he has written and published.

Mr. A. W. Hawkes of Hawkes and Slack, Ltd., manufacturers and whole- sale confectioners of Ipswich, has been collecting considerable sums for the Institution by a display of a sailing barge, a life-boat and a lighthouse inside a bottle. This is mounted on a collecting box which conceals a battery, Any coin inserted into the box lights the lantern in the lighthouse..