THE Institution very much regrets the death of Lieut.-Co'l. H. W. Madoc, C.B.E., M.V.O., for twenty-three years honorary secretary of the Douglas, Isle of Man, life-boat station; Mr. John Prior, for twenty-five years secretary of the North Deal, Kent, station; and the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, for thirty-eight years honorary secretary of the Cadg- with, Cornwall, station. The record of their services to the Institution will appear in the next issue of The Life-boat..