MAJOR A. J. DAWSON, M.B.E., who died at his home in Hastings on the 4th of February last, at the age of seventy-nine, was a most widely travelled man and the author of a great variety of books. He served in the war of 1914 to 1918 although over military age, won the Croicc de Guerre avec Palme, and, when invalided, estab- lished a propaganda section in the War Office. After the war he was on the staff of the Institution for a short time, before going out to India as director of information to the Govern- ment of Bombay, and on his return to England was invited by the Committee of Management of the Institution to write the history of the first hundred years of the Life-boat Service. This history, entitled Britain's Life-boats, was published in 1923 for the Institu- tion's centenary the next year. It had an introduction by the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), president of the Institution, and a foreword by Joseph Conrad..