Sayre, Lucius Elmer, dean of the school of pharmacy in the University of Kansas, was born at Bridgeton, N. J., in 1847. After a preparatory course he entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, where he received the degrees of Ph. G. and Ph. M., and in 1896 he received the honorary B. S. degree from the University of Michigan. In 1874 he was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Platt; became an instructor in his Alma Mater in 1880 and remained there for five years; was also engaged in business as a manufacturing chemist from 1882 to 1885, when he came to his present position in the University of Kansas. In 1890 he was a member of the commission to revise the United States pharmacopoeia; since 1907 has been director of drug analysis for the Kansas state board of health, and is a member of the botanical staff of the state board of agriculture. Prof. Sayre is the author of a Chart of Materia Medica, Pharmacal Botany and the Essentials of Pharmacy, and is a contributor to several of the leading pharmacal journals.