THE 37th Annual Meeting of the [ Committee of this Fund was held on the 18th ultimo, the Chair being occupied by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary Secretary, stated that the Fund had fully maintained its popularity with the Civil Service during the past year in which the Committee had been enabled to pay to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION the handsome sum of 1,541Z. 12s. Id. to recoup the Institution every expense entailed in 1903, in respect of the seven Civil Service Life-boats and Stations provided by the Fund, and including 400/., the unpaid balance of the cost of erecting the Boathouse and Slipway at Kingstown, and 350Z. to augment the endowment fund of the boat "Civil Service No. 1." The Civil Service Life-boats have saved 477 lives, and the total amount paid to the National Institution by the Fund since it was established in 1866 has been 30,617Z. 5s. 4d., the whole of which has been raised in half-crown subscriptions and other small amounts.