The Society belatedly notes the death of Member Liam (William) Burke at the age of 96. Following a first degree in pharmacy, completed in 1945, he was one of the only two UK PhD students to be supervised by Bernard Katz in the Department of Biophysics at UCL. After publishing work with Bernard Ginsborg on slow muscle fibres, he moved to Australia in 1956 where he subsequently carried out research with Peter O. Bishop recording from the visual system. He became Head of the Department of Physiology in Sydney, retiring as Emeritus in 1987. Much admired for his scientific curiosity and great sense of humour, he last visited UCL in 2016.