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 ------------------------ F. James Rohlf, John S. Toll Professor Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l