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The statue was unveiled by workmen, without any formal ceremony, on Feb. 24, 1915.

Liverpool. The memorial to Florence Nightingale here was designed by Mr. C. J. Allen. It was unveiled by Miss R. Paget in October, 1913. Further particulars are desired.

Derby.- This Nightingale memorial, erected by Derbyshire people, was unveiled by the Duke of Devonshire on June 12, 1914. The marble statue is the work of the Countess Feodora Gleichen, and represents Florence Nightingale as a hospital nurse, with her right hand elevated and grasping a lamp. The figure is placed on a pedestal, and behind it rises a stone screen flanked by pilasters which support an entablature containing the words " Fiat Lux." From the pedestal radiates a semicircle of stone seats. The memorial stands in the grounds of the Royal Infirmary.

London. On Feb. 14, 1916, her Majesty Queen Mary unveiled a memorial to Florence Nightingale in St. Paul's Cathedral. It is placed near the centre of the crypt between the tombs of Nelson and Wellington, and is the work of Mr. A. G. Walker :

" Upon a central panel of finest Carrara marble are two figures in bas-relief, representing Florence Nightingale handing a cup to a wounded soldier. The panel is flanked by beautiful pillars in alabaster, the frame of the whole being a some- what lighter stone."

Above the figures is inscribed :

Blessed are the merciful, and below them :

Florence Nightingale, O.M. Born May 12, 1820. Died August 13, 1910.

Before the unveiling the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered a short address ; afterwards a special memorial dedication service was held in the Cathedral.

Florence, Italy. Florence Nightingale was born here in 1820, and in 1913 a memorial was unveiled in the Church of Santa Croce. It takes the form of a sym- bolical statue of Watchfulness holding aloft a lamp. The inscription in Italian is trans- lated as follows :

" Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910. Heroine of the Crimea. ' The Lady of the Lamp ' as the soldiers called her, whom she tended in hospital in the night watches with wondrous, anxious care, and thenceforward by the force of her example was the moving soul of that voluntary work of international piety known as the Bed Cross. This tribute of veneration and respect is raised to her memory in Florence, where she was born and whose name she bore."

\\Vst Wellow, Wilts. In the quiet church- yard here Florence Nightingale's remains were deposited in the family grave Aug. 20, 1910.

FLORA MACDONALD.

Inverness. This statue is placed in a commanding and ideal position on the Castle Hill. It was raised at a cost of l.OOOZ. left for the purpose by one of Flora Macdonald's descendants, the late Capt. Henderson Macdonald. The heroic woman is repre- sented standing bare-headed with right arm raised and a large dog beside her,

Kilmuir, Island of Skye. Here Flora Macdonald died March 5, 1790. In Novem- ber, 1871, an lona cross of grey granite, 28 ft. 6 in. high, was placed over her grave in the churchj'ard.

CATHERINE WATSON.

North Berwick. On a grass - covered mound close by the lifeboat house and facing the harbour stands a Celtic cross, bearing the following inscription :

" Erected by public subscription in memory of Catherine Watson of Glasgow, aged 19, who was drowned in the East Bay, 27th June, 1889, while rescuing a drowning boy. The boy was saved, the heroic girl was taken."

QUINN AND SWINBURNE. Gateshead - on - Tyne. In the Durham Road, near the Abbot's Memorial Schools is a drinking fountain bearing the following inscription :

Erected by public subscription

in memory of Thomas Quinn

and Thomas Henry Swinburne,

for heroism displayed in sacrificing their lives to save

John Lennon

at Newcastle Chemical Works 9 August 1886.

GRACE DARLING.

Bamburgh, Northumberland. Grace Dar- ling died of consumption on Oct. 20, 1842, and was buried in the churchyard of her native Bamburgh. An elaborate momiment was erected close by her grave, the cost of which was defrayed by Mrs. Catherine Sharp of Barnstaple, widow of a former vicar of Bamburgh. It consisted of an oblong pedestal, supporting a recumbent effigy of Grace Darling, surmounted by a heavy stone canopy. The effigy was the work of Mr. C. R. Smith, and as, owing to its exposed condition, it suffered considerably from the action of the weather, it was re- placed by a replica executed by the same sculptor in 1884. The original effigy was removed to the church, where a stained- glass window was also placed to Grace