The Department of Zoology & Entomology announces with deep sadness the passing of Patrick Elliot Hulley, a universally respected and deeply valued colleague, who died peacefully in Port Elizabeth on 16 June from complications following a stroke. Prof Hulley was born in Empangeni in 1937, and grew up on farms in the Port Alfred and Peddie districts. He earned his MSc in entomology through Rhodes University in 1959, during a period when the departmental building was being (re)built, and two years before the department employed its first secretary. He taught at schools in London and then lectured at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. While lecturing, he completed his PhD in medical entomology through the University of London, UK (1975) under the supervision of the tsetse specialist, Prof. Einar Bursell OBE. His first publication, on the karyology of tsetse flies, was published in Nature in 1968. Pat returned to Rhodes University in 1979 as Lecturer in Entomology, teaching medical entomology, genetics and evolutionary biology, and publishing in entomology, ornithology and evolutionary theory. He retired from the Department as Associate Professor Emeritus in 2003, but continued teaching medical entomology to undergraduates for several years, to the great pleasure of several cohorts of students. Although an entomologist by training, Pat’s great pleasure in biology was ornithology, and he ringed at least 10 000 birds himself, as well as assisting in training several active ringers. His birding activities connected the University and the local community, and many townspeople will miss the friendships that were built up over 40 years in the town. Pat is certainly remembered with great affection by many past students, colleagues, birders, and all of the other people who encountered this gentle, considerate, good-humored person. He and his wife Mary had celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary, and our deepest sympathy goes to her, and to their daughters Alice and Frances, and their families.