Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died in April, only a month after she had resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Southampton Branch, on account of ill-health and advancing years. She was in her eighty-seventh year. Mrs.

Walter had been the Honorary Secre- tary since 1924, but she had worked for the Institution for thirty-eight years, during part of which time she had been the Honorary Secretary of the South- ampton Life-boat Saturday Fund. In 1930 she was awarded the Gold Brooch, which is given only for conspicuous honorary services..