diff --git a/Doc/changelog.docu b/Doc/changelog.docu
index bfb6783b..800de05a 100644
--- a/Doc/changelog.docu
+++ b/Doc/changelog.docu
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@
 <li>PropertyManager: add hasProperty function</li>
 </ul>
 
+<b>IO</b>
+<ul>
+<li>PLY Reader: Fix reading doubles from PLY, missing cast (Thanks to Leo Walsh for the patch)</li>
+</ul>
+
+
 <b>Build System</b>
 <ul>
 <li>Generate OpenMeshConfig.cmake (Thanks to Thibault Payet for the patch)</li>
diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
index 2c49ff17..03089195 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/PLYReader.cc
@@ -804,6 +804,12 @@ void _PLYReader_::readValue(ValueType _type, std::istream& _in, float& _value) c
         restore(_in, tmp, options_.check(Options::MSB));
         _value = tmp;
         break;
+    case ValueTypeDOUBLE:
+    case ValueTypeFLOAT64:
+	double dtmp;
+	readValue(_type, _in, dtmp);
+	_value = static_cast<float>(dtmp);
+	break;
     default:
         _value = 0.0;
         std::cerr << "unsupported conversion type to float: " << _type << std::endl;