BY the death of Captain Charles John Philip Cave, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.R.P.S., J.P., of Petersfield, on Decem- ber 8th, 1950, in his eightieth year, the Committee of Management have lost their oldest member. Captain Cave was elected to the Committee in 1905, and was appointed a vice-president in 1948.

For many years he took a very active part in the work of the Institution.

Captain Cave was a distinguished meteorologist and a most accomplished photographer of clouds and medieval stone carving. He was a fellow, and twice president, of the Royal Meteoro- logical Society, and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical and Royal Photo- graphic Societies and the Society of Antiquaries. It was as a meteorologist that he served in the Royal Engineers with the rank of Captain, in the war of 1914 to 1918, acting as interpreter be- tween the soldiers and the professional meteorologists, and instructing observ- ers of the Royal Flying Corps. He wrote two books, one called The Structure of the Atmosphere in Clear Weather, and the other Clouds and Weather Phenomena for Artists and Other Lovers of Nature. In his study of stone carving he took over 8,000 photographs.

Captain Cave's family has been closely associated with the Institution for nearly ninety years. In 1869 The Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, G.C.B., F.S.A., was elected a member of the Committee, was appointed a vice- president, and remained on the com- mittee until his death in 1880. In that year his cousin, Mr. Laurence Trent Cave, F.R.G.S., Captain Charles Cave's father, became a member and served on it for twenty years, until his death in 1899. He also was appointed a vice-president. In 1888 he pre- sented a life-boat, named after his two sons, the Charlie and Adrian, which was stationed at Hayling Island. In 1894, while he was still a member, another cousin of his, Admiral John Halliday Cave, C.B., was elected, and these two cousins served together on the Committee for five years. The Admiral, who was later appointed a vice-president, continued to serve until 1913, so that he and his second-cousin, Captain Cave, appointed in 1905, served together for eight years. In 1947, Captain Cave's son, Mr. Laurence C. H. Cave, was elected, so that father and son have served together for four years. In these eighty-seven, years since Sir Stephen was elected, five members of the family, and three generations, have served on the Com- mittee of Management..