Deputy Secretary.

MAJOR A. D. BURNETT BROWN, M.C., has been appointed Deputy-Secretary to succeed Colonel Satterthwaite. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship and took the degree of M.A.

He served with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in France and Belgium during the War.

He was twice wounded, received the Military Cross, and was mentioned in despatches. He is still serving in the Buckinghamshire (Territorial) Battalion of the same regiment. After the War he entered the Home Civil Service, and served in the Treasury until he resigned to enter the service of the Institu- tion.

Publicity Secretary.

MR. CHARLES VINCE, who has been Assistant Secretary for Publicity since 1920, has been appointed Publicity Secretary and Editor of The Lifeboat.

He was at one time a political leader- writer on the Birmingham Gazette, and then Assistant Editor and leader-writer of the weekly review, The World. During the War he served in the Royal Sussex Regiment, and, when invalided, was attached to the Intelligence Directorate at the War Office. .He has contributed, among other papers, to the Outlook, Spectator, Saturday Review, New States- man, Nineteenth Century and After and London Mercury. He was a contributor also to The Times History of the City of London, writes for The Times Literary Supplement, and is the author of several books of essays.