By the death on 15th July, at the age of sixty-nine, of Mr. Benjamin Simons, of Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, the Institution has lost an honorary worker who has been associated with it for forty- three years. Mr. Simons was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Station Branch in 1887, and when the Station was closed in 1913, he continued to act as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Financial Branch. In 1898 he was presented with inscribed binoculars and in 1908 with the Institution's decoration (since superseded by the Gold Pendant) as marks of its appreciation of his long services..