Mr. G. H. J. Adlam, O.B.E

FOWLES, G.

doi:10.1038/158408b0

Obituary
Published: 21 September 1946

Mr. G. H. J. Adlam, O.B.E

G. FOWLES

Nature volume 158, page 408 (1946)Cite this article

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MR. G. H. J. ADLAM, editor of the School Science Review, died suddenly on July 30. With his passing a great landmark has gone, for he alone of the officers of the science Masters' Association was re-elected year after year, so that members came to look upon him as a permanent pillar of the Association. His was the thought that first suggested the School Science Review and his the guiding hand that led it to success. As time went on, zeal for the welfare of the Review grew upon him and gripped him more and more until it became his ruling passion. When at the age of sixty-seven he retired from his school duties, having with indifferent health courageously carried on during the War, he looked forward to his leisure to make the Review even better. Already in his hands the 1919 booklet of thirty-two pages had in a few years become the largest and most influential journal of school science in Great Britain, if not in the world. Undoubtedly Adlam did more for the betterment of school science than any man of his generation: the value of his work is incalculable. Such an achievement could not pass unnoticed and in 1934 Adlam was awarded the O.B.E. Later, in 1941, he became president of the Science Masters' Association.