The Society notes with deep regret the death of Honorary Member Otto Hutter. He died on 22 November at his home in Bournemouth. He was 96. Hutter completed a PhD at University College London under Charles (later Sir Charles) Lovatt Evans. He was elected to The Society in 1953 and became an Honorary Member in 1991. He served on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Physiology (1961-6) and on The Society’s Committee (1968-72). The Society’s annual teaching prize that bears his name was founded in his honour in 2009, recognising his work on education, most prominently perhaps that done with the International Union of Physiological Sciences. Hutter’s work (with Wolfgang Trautwein) on the cardiac pacemaker potential, its slowing and speeding, under the influence of vagal or sympathetic stimulation (or the transmitters those nerves release), are true textbook icons. His subsequent studies of the underlying mechanisms furthered his interest in potassium and anion conductance channel properties, notably in skeletal muscle, thereby expanding this field considerably.