OBITUARY

G. T. S. Baylis (known to all as "Geoff”), Emeritus Professor of Botany, Otago University, died in Auckland on New Year's Eve, 2003, concluding a lifetime of varied and significant accomplishments. Though most widely known as a scientist, he also had a distinguished naval career during the Second World War, was a competent mountaineer, and contributed to the preservation of Dunedin's architectural heritage. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1961, and attended his last Fellows' AGM on his 90th birthday, as one of the two longest serving living fellows. He received the Society's Hutton Medal in 1994; he was a foundation and life-long member and President of the New Zealand Ecological Society; and in 1997 he was elected an Associate of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Institute of New Zealand.