King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several months.

* * * 'Life-boat' doughnuts sold by the Express Dairy Co. Ltd. at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, in January this year enabled the company to give the Institution £250. Some 75,500 'life-belts' were sold during the exhibition.

Wren Elaine S. Webber, of the R.N.A.S., Culdrose, Cornwall, recently sent the following letter to the Institution: ' "The Fortunate Ones" have much pleasure in enclosing a cheque for £3 towards the Institution's funds. Having such a close association with the sea we know only too well of the very valuable work that the life-boats do. Our group was started so that each week we could collect for different charities and so help those less fortunate than ourselves - either directly or indirectly.' When the Highgate Society president, Yehudi Menuhin, held a lunch at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution in Highgate Village on 1st March, tickets cost /os. jd. The odd penny, apparently, was to cover access to the ladies' room across the road in Pond Square. The society, however, had reckoned without the generosity of the Borough of Camden — not long before the lunch they made all public conveniences free. So that is why the Institution got the extra pennies.

On th August, 1966, the Galway Bay life-boat John R. Webb took a seriously ill man to hospital. Subsequently the man concerned, Mr. Daniel McKenny, of Dublin, donated £20 to the Galway branch funds and £5 to the crew of the life-boat in appreciation of the service when he was conveyed from Kilronan to the mainland.

An 'accumulator' sweep run by the crew of the mv Ruysdael, owned by the Bolton Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., of London, during the long Pacific passage to Australia has led to the Institution receiving 45 per cent, of the proceeds - £14. The sweep was run to see who could most accurately predict the time of arrival at Sydney.

In September last year Miss Anne Przypisty, of Invergarry, Inverness-shire, stated in a letter to the Institution: 'I am enclosing a donation of £5 and I hope it will be of some help to you in your good work.' She added that she was and the £5 represented her week's wages.

Last year a donation was received by the Institution from a Bristol supporter.

The accompanying letter - it contained £i $s. - explained: 'I have pleasure in sending you our very small contribution to your very worthy cause. We have, as usual, paid one penny per working day when rain has fallen.' It was the third such donation from the same source.

A member of an R.N.L.I. branch in West Wales produces his life-boat collecting box when he permits fishing in his small stretch of river. He also allows 'flowers from the garden' -for a donation.

The Uckfield and district branch of the R.N.L.I. made a special effort last Christmas to sell more Christmas cards. They sent out an advertisement slip, received back 33 inquiries, and finally had orders from 14 subscribers amounting to £28. Previously the branch had sold only two or three pounds worth of Christmas cards.