The Society has heard of the death on 26 July 2020 of Member Bernard Donovan. He began his career as a research assistant to Geoffrey Harris, the newly appointed Professor of Physiology at the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London. There he joined the controversy between Geoffrey Harris and Solly Zuckerman on the role of the hypothalamus in the control of the reproductive axis. Results from Bernard’s PhD project, published in Nature in 1954, became a pivotal part of this debate. Bernard remained at the Institute throughout a productive research career, retiring in 1998, and during which he also made notable contributions to academic publishing, as the editor of the Journal of Endocrinology, and as Secretary-General of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.