The Dictionary team is very sad to hear about the unexpected death of Peter Tyler, one of our authors, and a stalwart of Sydney history circles for many years. He wrote our article on the Royal Society of NSW, and cleared up a number of confusing overlapping organisations for us.

Peter was the historian for the Royal Society of NSW, and had a list of publications in the fields of administrative, scientific and medical history, most recently a history of State Records. He was also active in and a past president of the Professional Historians Association of NSW, and a generous and supportive colleague to historians in Sydney. His funeral will be held at Northern Suburbs Crematorium Southern chapel on Friday 11 May at 1 pm. Our sympathies go out to his family and friends.