Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven, who died on 5th February, 1938, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Newhaven station in 1936. He had then been its honorary secretary for thirty-five years. Mr. Lines was awarded the Institution's binoculars in 1911, and in 1931 he was appointed an honorary life-governor, the highest honour which the Institution can be- stow on an honorary worker and which is given only for very distinguished services..