2 OBITUARY ALFRED EDWARD JOHNSON Obituary ALFRED EDWARD JOHNSON ALFRED EDWARD JOHNSON who died on the 30th September at the age of 75, was educated at the City of London School and subsequently from 1878 to 1881, he was at the Royal College of Science Ireland where he obtained his Associateship. In 1883 he went to Wolverhampton as assistant to the late E. W. T. Jones, and continued to hold that post until Mr. Jones’s death in 1922. He then went into partnership with the writer with whom he was appointed Joint Public Analyst for the County of Stafford and the Boroughs of Stoke-on-Trent Wolver-hampton and Newcastle-under-Lyme which appointments they held until October 1929. At that date upon the County Council setting up their own laboratory the partnership was dissolved Mr.Johnson taking over the whole work of the above-mentioned boroughs. He obtained his F.I.C. in 1888 and in 1901 gained the London B.Sc. degree. In 1923 he joined the Society of Public Analysts and was elected a member of the Council for 1931-32. Mr. Johnson made a valuable contribution to chemical literature in the excellent AnaZyst’s Laboratory Companion of which he. was the author and which is now in its fifth edition. In collaboration with Mr. W. Lincoln Sutton he revised the tenth and eleventh editions of Volumetric Analysis by Francis Sutton and also contributed several articles to the Chemical News. He was an able analyst always willing to give help to another and was a most industrious and conscientious worker who carried on his work to the day of his death. Mr. Johnson was exceedingly musical being an accomplished organist and pianist. He leaves a widow and one son. ERNEST V. JONE