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Sayre (LUCIUS ELMER an American)

LUCIUS ELMER, an American educator, born at Bridgeton, N. J., in 1847. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and was in business as a manufacturing chemist, from 1882 to 1885. From 1880 to 1885 he was an instructor in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and from 1885 was dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas. He was a member of the Revision Commission of the United States Pharmacopeia from 1890, and from 1907 was director of drug analysis for the State Board of Health of Kansas. He wrote "Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy"; "Essentials of Pharmacy," and contributed articles on pharmaceutical subjects to magazines.

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