It is with great sadness that I must report that Peter Sneath, one of the
founders of numerical taxonomy and the Classification Society died on Friday
September 9th.  The funeral will be on October 5th.

 

There is a brief announcement by the University of Leicester here:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/people/bereavements/2010-2019/2011/09/npartic
le.2011-09-15.4186255082

(it notes that further details will be provided later)

 

Another notice is available here:

http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2011/09/peter-h-a-sneath-1923---2011.html

(there are also many comments in response to the notice, some relevant and
some not)

 

Jim

 

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F. James Rohlf, John S. Toll Professor

Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University

 

 

 


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