By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he came from York to Cornwall as rector of Grade and Ruan parishes, he became honorary secretary of the station, and he continued as its honor- ary secretary until his death. During these thirty-eight years the station has rescued 282 lives. Mr. Vyvyan himself won the silver medal of the Institution for his personal gallantry in 1907, when the White Star liner Suevic was wrecked at the Lizard, and the Cadgwith life- boat rescued 227 lives, while the life- boats at the Lizard, Coverack and Porthleven rescued 229. In 1908 he was awarded an inscribed binocular glass, and in 1933 an inscribed aneroid barometer in gratitude for his many services to the Institution..