THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many readers of The Lifeboat will buy this Calendar not only for themselves but to send to their friends.Calendars are becoming each year a more popular form of gift, and those who use the Life-boat Calendar may feel that they are making it do a double service. They will be sending their friends a beautiful calendar and they will be helping the Institution.

The Calendar will have a reproduction in colours of a picture specially painted for the Institution by Mr. Kenneth D.

Shoesmith, who is both artist and sea- man. Mr. Shoesmith, it will be remem- bered, was one of the artiste who gener- ously contributed to the Centenary Number of The Lifeboat, his picture, which was reproduced in colours, being "The Life-boat at Sea." For the Calendar he has painted the actual work of rescue, and the picture is reproduced here in back and white.

The Calendars will be 12 inches long by 10 inches wide, and they can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity, post free, Is. each, or 10s. a dozen, this price including a cardboard- backed envelope with each Calendar. It will weigh, in the envelope, just under 5 ounces, so that it can be sent through the post, with the envelope sealed for 2H Those who wish to order Calendars should apply as soon as possible to the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, Life-boat House, 22, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C. 2, and should enclose with their order a postal order or stamps.