THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding the badness of the times, the Fund had received liberal support from the Civil Service during the past year, the number of contributors having for the first time exceeded 26,000. The Fund had paid in 1904 to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION', 1,572?. 7s., to meet all the expenses it had entailed in the year in respect of the seven Civil Service Life-boats a'nd Stations provided by the Fund, and including 500Z. to strengthen the en- dowment funds of the Boats, which have been instrumental in saving 488 lives. The total amount paid to the National Institution by the Fund since its establishment in 1866, has been 32,1891. 12s. 4d., all of which has been raised in half-crown subscriptions and other small amounts..