Aodán Breathnach, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy
at the University of London at St Mary's Hospital
Medical School, and Honorary Senior Research
Fellow Division of Physiology and Institute of
Dermatology, UMDS, St Thomas' Hospital, died in
London after a prolonged illness on 17 April 2000, at
the age of 77. He had been a member of the
Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland since
1949, of the Societas Dermatologica Italica from
1978, of La Société Française de Dermatologie
Syphiligraphie since 1979, and of the Society for
Investigative Dermatology since 1984. He is survived
by his wife Babs, his two sons Stephen and Richard,
and their families, to whom our deepest sympathy is
extended.