With the deepest sorrow we have to announce that Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Secretary of the Institution, died, after a long illness, on the 7th June. Mr. Dibdin was born on the 9th October, 1849, and was thus in his sixty-first year. He was appointed Secretary on the 9th May, 1883, and for the period of twenty-seven years he worked with unremitting zeal, enthusiasm, and success.

He was heart and soul devoted to the Institution; and his last conscious words had reference to its work and gave evidence of his unabated affection for the Cause. Mr. Dibdin was practically the founder of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, and from 1870 until quite recently he was its Honorary Secretary. He was highly esteemed and beloved by the Committee of Management and by the Staff who worked under his immediate direction ; and expressions of regret have reached the Institution from its Honorary Officials in all parts of the United Kingdom bearing testimony to his worth, as well as to his genial and courteous bearing. It was with melancholy satisfaction that we read the intimation that His Majesty had intended on his birthday to confer a Knighthood on Mr. Dibdin.