By the death of Mr. J. M. Mawson, J.P., of Barrow-in-Furness, on 20th November, at the age of seventy-five, the Institution has lost one of the oldest of its honorary secretaries of life-boat stations. He was appointed honorary secretary in 1900 and held that appoint- ment until his death, more than thirty-five years later. During those thirty-five years the station rescued 92 lives. Mr. Mawson was presented with binoculars in 1910, and in 1933 he was appointed an honorary life- governor, the highest distinction which the Institution can give to an honorary worker..