SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady Sheffield.

Honorary Secretary of the Manchester, Salford and District Ladies' Life-boat Guild ; Miss Annie Swallow, late Honorary Secretary of the Peterborough Branch : Mr. C. B. Stoddard, Honorary Secretary of the Cardiff Branch ; Mr. A. J. G. Anson, late Honorary Secretary of the Hastings and St. Leonards Branch ; Mr. Felix Ruble, M.I.N.A., the Institution's late Surveyor of Life-boats ; Coxswain William Robinson, of Newbiggin : and Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose. It is hoped to publish an account of their work for the Institution in the next issue of The Lifeboat..