The AHA sadly notes the passing of Emeritus Professor Donald Denoon. Born in Scotland in 1940, Donald earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Natal in South Africa before undertaking a PhD at Cambridge. He and his first wife, Pamela (dec. 1988), spent several years at Makerere University in Uganda before civil unrest prompted them to relocate to Papua New Guinea with their three children. Donald was Professor of History at the University of Papua New Guinea for several years before taking up his post as Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University in the 1980s. His contributions to historical scholarship included A Grand Illusion: The Failure of Imperial Policy in the Transvaal Colony During the Period of Reconstruction, 1900-1905 (Longman, 1973), Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere (OUP, 1983), Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884–1984 (with Kathleen Dugan and Leslie Marshall; Cambridge University Press, 1989), Getting Under the Skin: The Bougainville Copper Agreement and the Creation of the Panguna Mine (with Philippa Mein-Smith and Marivic Wyndham; Melbourne University Press, 2000), A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific (Blackwell, 2000), and A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea (Pandanus Books, 2005) as well an edited collection called Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge University Press, 1997). He and his second wife, Mary, were avid contributors to the Pyrmont History Group in Sydney, and donated personal papers to the Pacific collections at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre in Canberra. The City of Sydney Council has paid its respects to Donald’s widow, friends and family, and recorded its admiration for ‘a kind and clever gentleman’.