THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given the same place for a life-boat exhibit which it had when the Exhibition was last held in 1935. The principal exhibits were again two complete engines, a 35-h.p.

six-cylinder submersible petrol engine and a 40-h.p. four-cylinder submersible Diesel engine. Parts of engines, parts of the life-boat itself, and the principal items in its equipment were also shown; eight models ; a working model of a shipwreck and rescue, and photo- graphs of coxswains, of wrecks and of life-boats engaged in the work of rescue.

During the fortnight 844 people worked the working model, and the model and collecting boxes and sale of books brought in between them £36 5s., or £2 85. 4d. a day. About 7,000 lists of the exhibits and the same number of leaflets were distributed.* * For accounts of previous exhibitions at Olympia and elsewhere see The Life-boat for September, 1933 ; Novem- ber, 1933 ; September, 1934, and December, 1935.