Former IFRF Investigator Roy Payne died on September 1^st 2015. He was a longstanding supporter of the IFRF, working at the IFRF’s IJmuiden Research Station in the Netherlands from 1975, and then at EER in California until he retired in 2007. We send our sincere condolences to Roy’s family, friends and colleagues. We will publish an obituary in a future issue of the Monday Night Mail.