ingdom.

There are thirty-six pension societies--the principal are
Hetherington's, Day's, the Clothworkers', the Cordwainers', the National
Blind Relief Society, Royal Blind Pension Society and Indigent Blind
Visiting Society.

The Gardner Trust administers the income of L300,000 left by Henry
Gardner in 1879. The income is used for instructing the blind in the
profession of music, in suitable trades, handicrafts and professions
other than music, for pensions, and free grants to institutions and
individuals for special purposes.

Scotland.

According to the census of 1901, Scotland had 3253 (or 727 per
million) blind persons, as against 2797 in 1891, but in a paper read
at the conference in Edinburgh, 1906, the superintendent of the
Glasgow Mission to the Out-door Blind stated that there were 758
employed or being educated in institutions, and 3238 known as
"out-door blind," making a total of 3996. There are in Scotland ten
missions, so distributed as to cover the whole country, and regular
visits are made as far north as the Orkney and Shetland Islands. In
carrying on the work, there are twenty-four paid missionaries or
teachers and a large number of voluntary helpers. These societies
originated in a desire to teach the blind to read in their own homes,
and to provide them with the Scriptures and other religious books, but
the social, intellectual and temporal needs of the blind also receive
a large share of attention. These teachers afford the best means of
circulating embossed literature, therefore the library committee of
the Glasgow corporation has agreed to purchase books and place them in
the mission library instead of in the public library. As the
institutions provide for only a small number of the blind, strenuous
efforts are made by the committee and teachers of missions to find
some employment for the many adults who come under their care.

In Glasgow, a ladies' auxiliary furnishes work for 150 knitters, and
takes the responsibility of disposing of their work. In Scotland there
are five schools for the young blind, and in connexion with each is a
workshop for adults. In Edinburgh the school is at West Craigmillar,
and the workshop in the city, but both are under the same board of
directors.

Ireland.

According to the census of 1901, there were 4253 totally blind persons
in Ireland, a proportion of 954 per million, as against 1135 in