The Society has heard with regret of the death on 20 January of Member John Bligh at the age of 97. Educated in the Physiology Department at University College London, where he completed his PhD in 1952 under the supervision of Otto Hutter, he took up a position at the Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Ayr, before moving as Principal Scientific Officer to AFRC Babraham in 1957. There he wrote his influential 1973 text “Temperature regulation in mammals and other vertebrates”  which developed the reciprocal cross inhibition (RCI) theory of temperature regulation. In that same year, he moved to become Director of the Institute of Arctic Biology in Fairbanks, Alaska. He retired from the Institute in 1985 but continued to publish work, living the rest of his life in Cambridge. Read his obituary in Physiology News here.