Newspaper Press Fund. President, Lord Burnham, K.C.V.O.; Treasurer, Sir Edward Russell; Sec., J. P. C. Coast. Office, 11, Garrick Street, W.C. Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution (2652), W. Wilkie Jones, Room 9, 15 and 16, Farringdon St., E.C. Nightingale Fund for the Training of Nurses (1450 from interest on Invested Fund; payments by probationers, variable), H. Bonham Carter (Apply to Matron, St. Thomas's Hospital), S.E. Open-air Mission (£4168), F. Cockrem, 11, Adam St., Strand, W.C. Royal Albert Orphan Asylum for Boys (2142, Legacy £550), W. C. Brooks, F.C.A., 57, Gracechurch St., Lombard St.. E.C. (See advt.) Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Institution (Ordinary £9785), J. Bailey Walker, 58, Fenchurch St. (See advt.) Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb (3417), T. Cole, Sec., 419, Oxford St., W. Royal Asylum of St. Anne's Society (Schools Redhill). Office, 58, Gracechurch St.; Sec., A. F. Ranald Daniel. Royal Blind Pension Society (11,023), W. E Terry, 237, Southwark Bridge Rd., London, S.E. Royal Caledonian Asylum, Bushey, Herts Ordination Candidates Exhibition Fund, dis-(6271), P. D. Graham, Bushey, Herts. tributes about £4700 annually for the education of candidates for the Ministry of the Church of England. Canon Petit, 14, Great Smith Street, Westminster. Orphanages of Mercy (including Victoria Orphanage, Paddington, and Lady Adelaide Home St. Michael's House, Hallam Hall Orphanage, Clevedon) (4581), Miss F. Ashdown, 27, Kilburn Park Road, N.W. Orphan Working School and Alexandra Orphanage, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, N.W. Founded in 1758. Entirely maintains and educates 500 boys and girls. A Convalescent Home at Harold Road, Margate, contains provision for 25 children. The object of the institution is to keep and educate children of respectable parentage left fatherless and in need. The institution is dependent upon voluntary contributions, Secretary, Alexander Grant; Office, 73, Cheapside, E. C. Philanthropic Society for the Reformation of Criminal Boys (£9778), J. Trevarthen, Farm School, Redhill. Poor Clergy Relief Corporation, 38, Tavistock Place, W.C. (£19,035). Mandeville B. Phillips, Sec.; immediate assistance given in money and clothing to Clergymen or their widows, and orphan daughters in temporary distress. (See advt.) Post Office Orphan Homes (£5501), W. R. Lovell. Eastern Central Office, General Post Office. Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation (12,888), Joseph Mortimer, Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C. Providence (Row) Night Refuge and Home for Homeless Men, Women and Children (£7088), J. W. Gilbert, B.A., 15, George Street, Mansion House, E.C. Provident Association of Warehousemen, Travellers and Clerks (15,692), C. C. Greenwood, F.C.I.S., 98, Cheapside, E.C. Provident Clerks' Benevolent Fund, John E. Gwyer, Hon. Sec., 27 and 29, Moorgate St., E.C. Provident Surgical Appliance Society (1998), J. Slater Spencer, 12, Finsbury Circus, E.C. Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society (£43,070), Sir John Kirk, J.P., 32, John St., Theobald's Rd., W.C. Railway Benevolent Institution (£74,547), A. E. Mills, 133, Seymour St., Euston Sq., N.W. Railway Guards' Universal Friendly Society (£13,407 18s. 8d.), W. A. Woods, 167, Strand, W.C. Reedham Orphanage 7941), J. Rowland Edwards, 34, Walbrook, E.C. Reformatory and Refuge Union (Incorporated) (£2465), A. J. S. Maddison, Victoria House, 117, Victoria St., S.W. Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (£25,000), C. B. Shaw, Secretary and Acting Treasurer, 26, Charles St., St. James's, S.W. (3235), Lt.-Col. A. Č. Fryer, 5, York St., St. Royal Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows James's Square, S.W. Royal Female Orphan Asylum (£3718), Brough Maltby, 17, Buckingham St., Strand. Royal Female Philanthropic Society (933), H. S. Watkins, 23, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C., and Manor Hall, Great Church Lane, Hammersmith. Royal General Theatrical Fund (£3900), Charles Cruikshanks, Sec., 115-116, Strand, W.C. Royal Literary Fund. The principle of the Fund is to administer assistance to authors of genius and learning, reduced to distress by unavoidable calamities, or deprived, by enfeebled faculties or declining life, of the power of literary exertion; and this assistance is extended at the death of an author to his widow and children, or mother, or sister. The Fund has £58,525 invested, producing an income of £1,840, besides rents and other receipts. Patron, H.M. the King; President, Lord Tennyson, G.C.M.G.; Seo., A. Llewelyn Roberts, B.A., 40, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster. Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons (£42,383), P. Colville Smith, M.A., P.G.D., 4, Freemason's Hall, Great Queen St., W.C. Royal Masonic Institution for Boys (£37,366), J. M. McLeod, F.C.I.S., 21, Gt. Queen St., Kingsway, W.C. Royal Masonic Institution for Girls (£32,383), R. Percy Simpson, M.A., 21, Great Queen St., W.C Royal Merchant Seamen's Orphanage (formerly Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum), Snaresbrook (7602), F. W. Rawlinson, F.R.G.S.. Dixon House, Lloyd's Avenue, E.C. (See advt.) Royal National Lifeboat Institution (£78,702), George F. Shea, M.A., 22, Charing Cross Rd., London, W.C. Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen (641,912), Francis H. Wood, Bridge House, 181, Queen Victoria St., E.C. (See advt.) Royal Naval Benevolent Society (£3583), R. H. Clark, R.N., 18, Adam St., Adelphi, W.C. Royal Naval Scripture Readers' Society (£2008 18. 3d. including legacy), H. KestellCornish, Sec., Trafalgar Institute, Portsmouth. Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, Upper Norwood (10,234), Sir F. J. Campbell, LL.D., Principal. Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation (income, £39,154). Sec., Major E. A. Stanton, 17, Waterloo Place, S.W. Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army (£7127), Col. F.W.T. Attree, F.S.A., late R.E., 25, Suffolk St., Pall Mall, S. W. CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES. Royal School for Deaf and Dumb Children, Margate. Founded in 1792 in Old Kent Road, London. (11,856). F. H. Madden, 93, Cannon St., E.C. Royal School for Naval and Marine Officer's Daughters (63670), Miss K. M. Todd, St. Margaret's House, Twickenham. Royal Society for the Assistance of Discharged Prisoners (1920). Col. J. G. Y. Wilson, 32, Charing Cross, S.W. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (40,000), Edward G. Fairholme, Sec., 105, Jermyn St., St. James's. (See advt.) Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (£52,440), Francis Burton Osborn, 7, Arundel St., Strand, W.C. St. Margaret's Home for Invalid and Incurable Children (350), H. J. Moxon, 11, Buckingham Palace Rd., S.W. St. Mary's Girls' Club, Union St., Southwark, S.E., and St. Mary's Home of Rest, Herne Bay (566), Miss Olive Chichester, Union St., S.E. School for the Indigent Blind, Highlands Rd., Leatherhead, Surrey; founded 1799 (14,823). Rev. St. Clare Hill, M.A., Principal. (See advt.) Scripture Readers and Irish Society (about £3500), Rev. T. Keane, Sec. and Treasurer, 32, Sackville St., W., and 28, Molesworth St., Dublin. Seamen's Christian Friend Society (2340), Rev. G. J. Hill, 255, Burdett Rd., Limehouse, E. Sheltering Homes for Destitute Children (1738), Sec., Mrs. Birt, Myrtle St., Liverpool. Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society (23,539), G. E. Maude, 26, Suffolk St., Pall Mall East, S.W. Mrs. Smyly's Homes and Schools, Dublin, benefiting 1000 children. Hon. Secs., The Misses Smyly, 21, Grattan St., Dublin. Society for Irish Church Missions (13,025), E. W. Allden (Lay), Rev. R. E. Waters, M.A., 11, Buckingham St., Adelphi, W.C. Society for Promoting Special Religious Services in Theatres, Halls and Mission Rooms (established 1859) (645), John Wood, Hon. Sec., 21, Surrey St., Strand, W.C. Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace (2778), Dr. W. Evans Darby, B.D., 47, New Broad St., E.C. Society for the Promotion of the Due Observance of the Lord's Day (1091), Rev. F. Peake, M.A., LL.D., 18, Buckingham St., Strand. Society for the Relief of Distress (£2512; Legacies, 1000), Charles T. Bruce, 78, Jermyn St., S.W. Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men (3500), E. J. Blackett, 11, Chandos St., Cavendish Sq., W. Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children (£4113), C. Stuart Thorpe, 205, Great Portland St., W. Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children. The Rescue Society was established in 1853, and incorporated in '86 for the reformation of openly immoral women and the guardianship and training of young girls exposed to danger. Maternity cases are also admitted. Six Homes are maintained, accommodating 185 inmates. The industrial earnings were 1154 in 1909, or one-fourth of the total cost. Funds are greatly needed. Chairman of Committee, Mr. Edmund Ives; Secretary, Mr. C. Stuart Thorpe. Offices, 205, Great Portland Street, W. Society (Incorporated) for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes (4064), A. Humphreys, F.C.I.S., 4, Bloomsbury Mansions, Hart St., W.C. Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association, Sec., Capt. Wickham Legg, 23, Queen Anne's Gate, S.W. Soldiers' Daughters' Home, The Royal (£5126), Col. E. L. F. Jennings, M.V.O., 5, Robert St., Adelphi, W.C. Solicitors' Benevolent Association (69500), J. T. Scott, 2, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. South American Missionary Society (£36,368), Secs., Rev. J. M. Harris, M.A., Rev. E. P. Cachémaille, M.A., 20, John St., Bedford Row, W.C. Southwark Diocesan and South London Church Fund (18,892), Sec., Charles Clarke, 49, Parliament Street, Westminster, S.W. Spanish and Portuguese Church Aid Society (4110), Rev. T. J. Pulvertaft, M.A., Church House, Westminster, S.W. Stockwell Orphanage (£15,224), F. G. Ladds, Clapham Rd., S.W. (See advt.) Strangers' Home for Asiatics, etc. (about £800), Major Napier E. Chesney, Hon. Sec., West India Dock Rd., Limehouse, E. Sunday School Union (The) (4633), Sec., Rev. Carey Bonner, 56, Old Bailey, E.C. Salisbury Sq., Fleet St., E.C. An institution for the protection of stray dogs Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs. and cats. Private dogs and cats received as boarders. Guy H. Guillum Scott, 4, Battersea Park Rd., S.W. (See advt.) United Kingdom Railway Officers' and Servants' Association and Railway Orphan Fund (69,476), A. James, 21, Finsbury Pavement, E.C." Universal Beneficent Society (£2902), A. D. Tait, 15, Soho Square, W. Rev. D. Travers, M.A., 9, Dartmouth St., S.W. Watercress and Flower Girls' Christian Mission (19,736). Founder, J. A. Groom, "The Crippleage," Sekforde St., Clerkenwell, E.C. (See advt.) Widows' Friend Society (1511), President, Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph C. Dimsdale, Bart., P.C., K.C.V.O.; Richard Say, Sec., 61, Finsbury Pavement House, E.C. Zenana Bible and Medical Mission, or Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society (26,367), Lord Kinnaird, Treasurer; Rev. A. R. Cavalier, and Mrs. Firth, Secs., King's Chambers, Portugal St., Kingsway, W.C. Zenana Medical Mission College and Hospital for Women and Children, Dr. G. de G. Griffith, Hon. Sec., 9. Lupus St., Westminster, S.W.; Hospital being unendowed, all fees and payments go to maintain it. Zenana Missionary Society (Church of England) (52,168); Secretaries, Rev. C. H. Stileman, M.A. (Clerical), H. L. Hebbert (Lay), Lonsdale Chambers, 27, Chancery Lane, E.C. HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES IN LONDON. King Edward's Hospital Fund for London was founded in 1897, on the initiative of H.M., who was then Prince of Wales, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign. The total received by the Fund to the end of 1908 was £2,529,393. The awards have amounted to £989.576, and the invested funds, including gifts to capital, amount to £1,609,635. Since '97 the total number of beds reopened as free beds has been over 400. President, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales; Hon. Treas., Lord Rothschild; Hon. Seca., Right Hon. Sir Savile Crossley, Bart., and Mr. Fredk. M. Fry; Sec., Mr. H. R. Maynard. Offices, 7, Walbrook, E.C. The League of Mercy.-Incorporated by Royal Charter, 98, to secure support for King Edward's Hospital Fund, etc., by obtaining small subscriptions. £116,000 to the London Hospitals, and made It has contributed grants to Provincial Hospitals to the amount of £5476. In connection with the League the Order of Mercy" was instituted by his late Majesty as a reward for distinguished personal service. Grand President, T.R.H. The Prince and Grand President and Lady Princess of Wales. Hon. Secretaries, The Lord Wolverton, Sir William J. Collins, M.S., M.P., Mr. J. Harrison, M.V.Ö. Hon. Registrar of the Order, Mr. E. W. Wallington, C.M.G. Secretary, Colonel F. J. Kempster, D.S.O., Offices, 29, Southampton St., Strand, London, W.C. (3067), H. Kemp Welch, Cheyne Hospital, 98, Cannon St., E.C. Chest (12,172) George Watts, Hospital, 1750 (10,815), R. A. Ŏwthwaite, 102, City Rd., sary for Women (8324), W. M. Wilcox, H. C. Staniland Smith, Southwark Bridge Rd., 6A, Brewer St., Goswell Rd., E.C. Cochrane, Dalston Lane, N.E. the Poor, more especially of the East of London Lewis H. Glenton-Kerr, Holloway Rd., N. The Metropolitan Hospital Saturday Fund is a regular weekly collection controlled by dele-pital gates. The total collected in 1908 amounted to £29,541, and donations, etc., amounted to £289, the whole being divided amongst 205 hospitals, dispensaries and other institutions. Offices, 54, Gray's Inn Road, W.C. Sec., Mr. A. W. Davis. The Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund was founded in 1872. The total sum collected during 1907-8 was £80,181. Secretary, Sir Edmund Hay Currie; address, Mansion House, E.C. Hospitals and Dispensaries in The following list comprises the most important, with their last notified annual income and secretary's address: Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease (5762), Stanley Smith, Queen Sq., Bloomsbury. Belgrave Hospital for Children (2286), Percy Gates, 7, Victoria St., Westminster, S. W. Bethlem Royal Hospital for Mental Diseases (31,000), A. H. Martin, Steward, Lambeth, S.E. British Lying-in Hospital (2884), A. C. Wickins, Endell St., Long Acre, W.C. Cancer Hospital (Free). Incorporated under Royal Charter. No letters of admission required. F. W. Howell, Fulham Rd., S.W. Telegrams, Cancer, London; Telephone, 747 Western. (See advt.) Central London Ophthalmic Hospital (62215), Harry R. S. Druce, 238a, Gray's Inn Rd., W.C. Central London Throat and Ear Hospital (4233), Richard Kershaw, 330, Gray's Inn Rd., W.C. Charing Cross Hospital (22,825, Ordinary £17,999, Extraordinary £1826), Walter Alvey, Agar St., Strand, W.C. (See advt.) Chelsea Hospital for Women (5656), Herbert H. Jennings, Fulham Rd., S.W. the Chest (39,256). Frederick Wood, Fulham Frederick Hayter, 52, Stamford St., Blackfriars, S.E. Hospital for Diseases of the Throat (£5400), £15,486, Extraordinary income £3244), Stewart 30, Hospital for Women (4383), Alfred Hayward, Extraordinary £513), Capt. H. S. Tunnard, Hospital 64397, Rescue Home 1507, Male W. Christie, Liverpool Rd., Islington, N. Attwood, F.C.I.S., Great Ormond St., W.C. income, £113,868), E. W. Morris, Sec., London London Skin Hospital (1004), Sec., James E. I and the (0) Bo W 9, Ki na Di W S H E tr HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES. London Temperance Hospital, for the medical and surgical treatment of patients without the use of alcohol as ordinarily prescribed (Ordinary income, 68493), Secretary, A. W. Bodger, Hampstead Road, N.W. Magdalen Hospital (4784), Rev. W. Watkins, Warden and Secretary, Streatham, S. W. Metropolitan Dispensary (1152), H. C. Davis. 9, Fore Street, Cripplegate, E.C. Metropolitan Hospital (13,949), J. C. Buchanan, Kingsland Rd., N.E. (See advt.) Middlesex Cancer Hospital (Charity) (Ordinary £4649, Extraordinary £4559), SecretarySuperintendent, F. Clare Melhado, St. Mary lebone. Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Hampstead and Northwood (18,884). William J. Morton, 7, Fitzroy Square, W. National Hospital for the Diseases of the Heart (Ordinary £2861, Building Fund £1064). E. C. Russell, 32, Soho Square. of St. Luke's Hospital for Mental Diseases (£4798), W. H. Baird, Old St. (See advt.) St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula and other Diseases of the Rectum (£3595, Expenditure £4503), A. W. Sowden, City Road, E.C. St. Mary's Convalescent Home for Children of the Poor, Broadstairs, (£4962), Hon. Sec., Miss A. Brimble, St. Mary's Home, Stone Rd., Broadstairs. St. Mary's Hospital (£25,914), T. Ryan, Praed Street, Paddington, W. St. Peter's Hospital for Stone and other Urinary Diseases (3925), Irwin H. Beattie, 27, Hen National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (Albany Memorial) (Ordinary £14,617, Ex-rietta St., Covent Garden, W.C. traordinary £2330), with Convalescent Home, East Finchley. Earl Treasurer, The Harrowby. Secretary, Godfrey H. Hamilton, Queen Sq., Bloomsbury, W.C. (See advt.) North London or University College Hospital (Ordinary £17,552), J. Gerald T. Buckle, B.A., Gower St., St. Pancras, W.C. North-West London Hospital (amalgamated with the Hampstead General Hospital) (Ordinary 1738), A. Craske, The Hospital, 18, Kentish Town Rd., N.W. Paddington Green Children's Hospital, London, W. (£4990), Sec., W. H. Pearce. Poplar Hospital for Accidents, East India Dock Road, E. (10,643), Percy Rogers, B.A.. Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital (5430), Arthur Watts, 191, Marylebone Rd., N.W. Queen's (late North-Eastern) Hospital for Children (£14,632), T. Glenton-Kerr, Hackney Rd, Bethnal Green, E. Royal Dental Hospital of London (6346), J. Francis Pink, 32, Leicester Sq., W.C. Royal Eye Hospital or Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital (3384), Edwin Easton, St. George's Circus, Southwark, S.E. 6726), Royal Free Hospital (11,410, Legacies Conrad W. Thies, Gray's Inn Rd., W.C. Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, for the gratuitous relief of poor persons suffering from diseases of the chest in any of their various forms (6852), A. T. Mays, 231, City Rd., E.C. (See advt.) Royal Hospital for Incurables (Putney) (20,863, Legacies £21,164). Charles Cutting, 4, St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C. (See advt.) Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields Eye Hospital) (11,879), R. J. Bland, City Rd. Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the Separate Principle, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (12,582), E. Morgan, 18. Buckingham St., Strand, W.C. Royal National Orthopedic Hospital for all Deformities or Malformations (8151, Building 27.338), Arthur Morley, M.A., 234, Great Portland St., W. (See advt.) Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital, Margate (9651), A. Nash, 13, Charing Cross, S. W. Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women (8207), the Sec., Waterloo Rd., S. E. Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital (Ordinary £2906, Legacies £366), John H. Johnson, King William St., West Strand, W.C. St. Thomas's Hospital (Ordinary £62,013), G. Q. Roberts, M.A. Oxon., St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, S.E. (See advt.) W. Guntrip King, 161-171, Marylebone Road, Samaritan Free Hospital for Women (5540), N.W. Seamen's Hospital Society (£21,439), P. I. West London Hospital (13,605). Secretary, The Charity Commissioners for England and Wales. The Charity Commission was created by the Charitable Trusts Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 137). Four commissioners were appointed, three of them being paid; and two at least of these three (one of the two being the Chief Commissioner) must be barristers-at-law of not less thar. twelve years' standing. The number of Commissioners is now reduced to three. No paid commissioner can sit in the House of Commons during tenure of office. The Board are empowered, from time to time, as they may see fit, to examine and inquire into all or any charities in England and Wales, and the nature and objects, administration, management, and results thereof, and the value, condition, management, and application of the estates, funds, property, and income belonging thereto," with certain large exceptions. The secretary to the Commission for the time being is a corporation sole, by the name of "The Official Trustee of Charity Lands," for taking and holding charity lands; and the Commissioners from time to time appoint, with the approval of the Treasury, "The Official Trustees of Charitable Funds," who must lay their accounts before Parliament yearly. The original jurisdiction of the Commissioners has been largely extended by the Charitable Trusts Act, passed in '60, and other Acts. C. A. Cook, Chief Commissioner; A. F. Leach and C. P. Allen, M.P. (unpaid). Secretary. H. W. T. Bowyear. Offices: Ryder Street, St. James's. AND COMMERCIAL. Accountants (Chartered) in England and Wales, Institute of. Incorporated by royal charter May 11th, 1880. President. William Plender, F.C.A., 5, London Wall Buildings, Finsbury Circus, London, E.C.: Secretary, Hon. George Colville; Solicitors, Messrs. Markby, Stewart & Co., 57, Coleman Street, E.C. Hall and Offices, Moorgate Place, E.C. Actors' Association, 32, Regent Street, W. Sec., D. Young. Actuaries, Faculty of, in Scotland. Constituted 1856, incorporated 1868. President, Gordon Douglas; Hon. Sec., W. G. Walton: Assistant-Sec. and Librarian, John Forsyth. Hall and Library, 14, Queen Street, Edinburgh. Actuaries, Institute of, Staple Inn Hall, Holborn, W.C. President, Gerald Hemmington Ryan; Hon. Secs., W. P. Phelps, M.A.; Lewis Frederick Hovil; Assistant-Sec., S. H. Jarvis. Alliance Française, Fédération des Comités des Iles Britanniques. The President of the Federation is Prof. A. V. Salmon, 54, Western Elms Avenue, Reading. Hon. Gen. Sec., M. F. Novion, 32, High Street, Croydon. Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society. The Aborigines Protection Society and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which were founded respectively in 1837 and 1839, with aims very similar in character, of protecting and advancing the interests of enslaved and oppressed native races, were amalgamated in 1909, under the title of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society. Journal, The Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend: President, Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart., G.C.M.G.; Secretary, Travers Buxton, M.A. Office, 51, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. Apothecaries. Society of. Water Lane, Blackfriars. Clerk, A. M. Upton; Sec. to Examiners, Frank Haydon, L.R.C.P. Architects, The Society of. Founded in 1884 and incorporated in '93; advocates the statutory examination and registration of all persons entering the profession of architecture; has over 1000 members. Its examinations are held in April and October. Office of Secretary: 28, Bedford Square, W.C. Architectural Association, The (London). Instruction is given by day and evening schools, the latter preparing for the intermediate and final examinations of the R.I.B.A. The Royal Architectural Museum, open daily to the public, free, is accommodated in the same building. Membership, 1700; entrance fee, f,2 2s.: annual subscription, £1 1s. Sec., D. G. Driver, F.C.I.S., Office, 18, Tufton Street, Westminster. Art Masters, The National Society of. 13, Warwick Road, Earl's Court, S. W. President, R. G. Hatton, Hon. A.R.C.A.; Secretary, Francis C. Ford, M.A. Auctioneers' Institute of the United King dom (Incorporated). There are eleven provincial branches. Membership may be obtained by examination annually in March or April, or under the "Practice" qualification. President, Sir Robert Buckell, J.P., M.A., Oxford. Secretary, Charles Harris. Offices, 34, Russell Square, W.C. Bankers, Institute of. Founded in '79, it has in London, the provinces, in India and the Colonies over 8000 adherents: viz., 385 Fellows, who are partners, directors, or managers of banks, about 2300 Associates, consisting of officials of over 10 years' standing, and those who have passed the final examination, and over 5500 ordinary members drawn from the juniors on bank staffs. Its organ is the Journal of the Institute of Bankers. The annual examinations for the certificate of the Institute are held in the spring in London and numerous provincial centres. In 1910 there were 3761 candidates at 420 centres. Offices, 34, Clement's Lane, Lombard Street. President, Frederick Huth Jackson. Secretary, Ernest Sykes. British Constitution Association. Instituted Nov. 1905. "to resist Socialism, to uphold the fundamental principles of the British Constitution-personal liberty and personal responsibility, and to limit the functions of governing bodies accordingly." Hon. Sec., W. V. Cooper. Office, 20, Tothill Street, S.W. British Iron Trade Association, Amberley House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. Presi dent, The Rt. Hon. Sir Charles McLaren, Bart., K.C., M.P.; Secretary, C. J. Fairfax Scott, M.A. British Medical Association. The Association numbers more than 22,000 members. There are 38 branches in the United Kingdom, and 34 Colonial branches. Annual subscription, 255. Organ, British Medical Journal, Editor, Dawson Williams, M.D. Financial Secretary, Guy Elliston; Medical Secretary. J. Smith Whitaker, M.R.C.S. Offices: 429, Strand, London, W.C. Builders, Institute of, Koh-i-Noor House, Kingsway, W.C. Sec., T. Costigan. Capital Punishment, Society for the Abolition of. Office, 145, New Kent Road, S.E. Chambers of Commerce Association of the United Kingdom. Formed 1860, incorporated '75. The Association holds an annual meeting early in the year in London, and an autumnal meeting in the provinces. The membership consists of 119 chambers of commerce. President, Lord Brassey: Secretary, Sir E. W. Fithian, J.P. Offices, Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. Examina Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Founded 1891. Royal charter granted 1902. Membership over 3500. Secretaries of public companies, societies, institutions, etc., are eligible as fellows, and assistant secretaries, registrars, or clerks as associates. tions for membership-preliminary (educational), intermediate (Associates), and final (Fellows) are held in June and December. An Employment Register is kept. Organ, The Secretary, monthly. Sec., Mr. Russell Day, B.A., LL.M. Offices, 65, London Wall, E.C. China Association, The, is a society of merchants and others interested in the Far East, having for its objects the representation of the interests of the British mercantile community in their relations with the Chinese and Japanese, and the promotion of trade and intercourse with China and Japan. Sec., H. C. Wilcox: Office, 159, Cannon Street, E.C.' Cold Storage and Ice Association. Founded in 1899 to promote the interests of its industry. on the lines of the Institution of Mechanical |