Miss L. D. Adams had a personality of such warmth and generosity that her loss will be deeply felt by very many people associated with education. Some will have known her personally through her visits to schools as H.M.I., or her lively contributions at conferences and refresher courses. We in this Association mourn her as one of our most distinguished members. She had an unbroken record of fifty-one years of membership and during that period had served on the Teaching Committee for some twenty years, exerting a strong formative influence which helped the Committee to broaden its enquiries until it can now claim to have produced reports on the whole range of school mathematics. The quality of thought that she brought to the Association’s discussions was recognized in 1959 when she was elected President, only the second woman to hold that office in the long years from 1871. To Miss Adams this tribute from the Association brought surprise and much pleasure, for in her natural modesty she had not thought of herself as possessing any gifts to merit her election.