[SOA] Varro E. "Tip" Tyler Papers at the Lloyd Library

[Devhra BennettJones]

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The Lloyd Library is pleased to announce the completed processing and
accessibility of the Varro E. "Tip" Tyler Papers!

The collection consists of the manuscript records of Varro E. Tyler,
from 1926 to 2001.  Included are personal and biographical materials,
correspondence with individuals and organizations, publications
organized into four sub-series, records regarding conferences, speaking
engagements and travel, and an extensive collection of medicinal herbs
and plants data arranged alphabetically.  The collection is
approximately 50  linear feet, 98 boxes.

Varro E. "Tip" Tyler was born December 19, 1926 in Auburn, Nebraska.  He
had a classical education and loved history, poetry, travel, philately,
and books.  Tyler enrolled at the University of Nebraska, and graduated
in pharmacy with high distinction in 1949.  He attended Yale University
as an Eli Lilly Research Fellow in 1950.  After Tyler earned his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut in 1951 and 1953,
he was appointed Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Pharmacognosy at the University of Nebraska.  He served with merit at
the University of Washington for ten years.  Dr. Tyler accepted the
appointment as dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences at
Purdue University in 1966.  He studied medicinal and toxic constituents
of higher fungi, phytochemical analysis, alkaloid biosynthesis, drug
plant cultivation, and herbal medicine.  Tyler's outstanding career at
Purdue culminated in the designation of the Lilly Distinguished
Professor of Pharmacognosy, Emeritus.  Service as the first president of
the American Society of Pharmacognosy ( 1959-1961), president of the
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (1970-1971), and president
of the Institute of the History of Pharmacy (1993-1995) are among
Tyler's many notable achievements.  Dr. Tyler's stature in the field of
pharmacognosy is evident through national and international recognition
by his peers, honorary degree awards, appointments to editorial boards,
and his hundreds of publications.  Tyler died August 22, 2001.

The finding aid is available on the Lloyd Library website at:
http://www.lloydlibrary.org/archivescollections.html

For reference questions and inquiries contact the Archivist, Devhra
BennettJones, Devhra at Lloydlibrary.org


Devhra BennettJones, M.A., M.S., CA
Archivist
Lloyd Library & Museum
917 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio  45202
Devhra at lloydlibrary.org
(513) 721-3707 -- Telephone
(513) 721-6575 - Fax


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