David Dineley RIP 

I have just heard that David Dineley died on the 17th May. his funeral will be on the 7th or 8th of June.

I did not know David but knew he was a great friend of WEGA while he was head of the Bristol Department. 

He was a distinguished Bristol palaeontologist, who was a member of staff in the Department of Earth Sciences (= Department of Geology then) from 1968 to 1989, and was Chaning Wills Professor and Head of Department from 1968 to 1989. David Dineley is best known for his fundamental work on early fossil fishes and on Devonian stratigraphy, on which he wrote many scientific papers and books. 

When we know more, we will pass it on.