Captain C. W. Hume

CAPTAIN C. W. HUME resigned from the editorship of the Proceedings of the Physical Society on January 1, after having been responsible for that journal for a period of twenty years. A member of the reserve of Army officers, he rejoined his unit some time previously, and continued his editorial work until impending changes made it no longer possible. During his tenure of the office, he had seldom missed a Council meeting, and was usually present at science meetings, to obtain a record of the discussion on papers at first hand. He took great pains with the preparation of the Proceedings to ensure that papers should be free from ambiguity and obscurity, and printed in uniform style. His other interests were many. He founded the University of London Animal Welfare Society and the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, and had also taken an active part at one time in the Association of Scientific Workers and the Parliamentary Science Committee, as it then was.