the fat from milk became easy and complete. It has become the standard method by which all other methods of fat-estimation in milk were judged and regulated. The observation in itself was a small one, but it has affected fifty thousand milk analyses made annually in Britain. Adams married early in life, his wife being the daughter of the late Mr. John Prall, solicitor, of Rochester; she survived him, together with a son and three daughters. Adams was an avid traveller, and almost each year he and his wife would spend a lengthy vacation abroad. References 1836 births 1913 deaths Local government in the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 19th-century British medical doctors