death the Institution greatly regrets is Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend- on-Sea, who died on 1st January at the age of sixty-eight. For eighteen years he was the honorary secretary of the station. He was appointed in 1914, and retired in 1932. He then became the chairman of the branch, remaining its chairman until his death. His work .for the Institution was recog- nized by the presentation of inscribed binoculars in 1928, and its thanks inscribed on vellum when he retired from the honorary secretaryship. Mr.

Britain was another of those men who find time to serve the Institution in the midst of much other public work.

For twenty yeaYs he was a member of the Southend Corporation, and he was a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Britain was head of a firm of toy-makers, Messrs. Britains, Ltd., of London, and one of the last things he did was to design the new toy figure of a life- boatman for the Institution..