The Society regrets to hear of the death of Roger Anwyl on 21 May 2019 after a long illness. A graduate of the University of Birmingham (BSc in 1969 and PhD in 1972) Roger worked with Peter Usherwood at the University of Glasgow and Toshio Narahashi in Chicago before taking up a lectureship in 1978 at Trinity College Dublin where he subsequently became Professor of Neurophysiology and then Fellow Emeritus on his retirement. A Member of The Society from 1979, his research centred on mechanisms of glutamatergic transmission, including the roles of metabotropic glutamate receptors, in hippocampal synaptic plasticity.