Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat 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 of Northumberland, who had placed a life-boat, built by Greathead, at North Shields, and presented another to Oporto, Portugal. The engraving from which the Calendar has been reproduced was presented to the Institution by Mr. 0. G. Berry, who was a member of its staff from 1893 to 1923.

The Calendars will be 11J inches long by 9 inches wide, and they can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity, post free, Is. each, or 10s. A (Painted and engraved by W. Elmvs, and published in 1803 by Henry Greathead, builder of the first Life-boat.) 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 painted and engraved by W. Elmes, and published in 1803, by Henry Greathead, the builder, though not the inventor, of the first Life-boat launched at Tynemouth in 1789. It shows a Life-boat service off Tynemouth Castle. The original engraving was inscribed to the Duke dozen, this price including an envelope with each Calendar. It will weigh, in the envelope, just under 4 ounces, so that it can be sent through the post, with the envelope open, for Id.

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. Only such orders can be dealt with.