Obituary

Abstract

Professor R.L.C. (Bob) Pilgrim died suddenly at home of a heart attack, after spending the evening working on his monograph of the flea larvae of the world. Bob was a holistic scientist, a natural historian of the old school, with an extensive knowledge of biology in its broadest meaning and demonstrated in his many publications spanning the disciplines of morphology, physiology and parasitology as well as entomology. Above all he was a teacher who took great pride in the work of his students during the almost 40 years he was a lecturer at the University of Canterbury.