4 RETIRING CHAIRMAN OF THE ANALYST EDITORIAL COMMITTEE [Proc. SOC. Analyt. Chem. The Retiring Chairman of The Analyst Editorial Committee The Analyst Editorial Committee and its fore-runner in all but name the Publication Com- mittee have been responsible for The Analyst from its inception in 1876 until the change just made to the publication of the journal under the auspices of an international Editorial Board and Executive Committee. Although the President of the Society has acted as Zocum tenens for the past nine months while this change has been under discussion the last Chairman of The Analyst Editorial Committee was Dr. K. A. Williams B.Sc. Ph.D. (Lond.) F.R.I.C. A.Inst.P. M.Inst.Pet. during whose ten years of office the journal’s development has been a t its greatest. K. A. Williams joined the Society in 1926 when he was working for E.R. Bolton the then President. He became a member of the Publica- tion Committee in 1939 at a time when the application of physical techniques to analytical chemistry was becoming important and remained a member (Chairman since 1958) while the tech- niques that are now so numerous and so familiar found early recognition in the pages of The Analyst. As Honorary Secretary of the Society and as a member of the Committee he took a considerable part in the planning of Analytical Abstracts which resumed the publication of abstracts for the Society in 1954 after 4 years during which the British Abstracts C was supplied to members and subscribers ; before 1950 abstracts had appeared in The Analyst since the earliest issues. As Chairman he had much to do with the development of the Proceedings and took an active part in the work of The Analyst Development Committee whose deliberations led to the Society’s two primary journals having their present form.He is professionally an Analyst and Technical Consulting Chemist specialising in the analysis and technology of oils fats and related foods. His interests cover many other subjects including giving expert advice on claims arising from damage to goods in transit and on shipping problems generally on patent matters and on litigation. He was President of our Society in 1955 and 1956 having served as Honorary Secretary from 1947 to 1955. In the oils and fats field he has been President (1950-51) of the International Commission for the Study of Fats (now the Oils and Fats Section Inter- national Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry). He was twice a delegate to the Council of I.U.P.A.C. His activities in the British Standards Institution include the Chairmanship of the Oils Fats and Surface Active Agents Industry Committee and of a number of technical commit tees. He is an established authority on the analysis of oils fats and fatty foods having written many original papers and is best known as the author of the third and (current) fourth editions of “Oils Fats and Fatty Foods their Practical Examination.” He rowed for the University of London Boat Club and for the Thames Rowing Club of which he is now Vice-president and has been coaching Queens’ College Cambridge and many other crews with success over many years. Dr. I(. A. Williams He is an expert amateur photographer and can claim to be an artist and sculptor.