LLOYD, John Uri, American chemist and author: b. West Bloomfield, N. Y. 19 April 1849. He was educated in private schools; was professor of pharmacy at the Cincinnati Col lege of Pharmacy, 1883-87; professor of chem istry at the Eclectic Medical Institute, 1878 1900, and president of the Eclectic Medical In stitute, 1896-1904. He has been president of the Lloyd Library since its inception, and is senior member of the firm of Lloyd Brothers, manufacturing pharmacists and chemists of Cincinnati, Ohio; and in the laboratory has devoted his life work to plant pharmacy, in cluding investigations of plant alkaloids and proximate principles. He has contributed very largely to current chemical and pharmaceutical literature, and outside his professional writings i has made special studies in the dialect, super stitions and folklore of northern Kentucky. His best-known publications are 'The Chemist*? of Medicines' (1881) ; 'Supplement to King's American Dispensatory' (1885); 'King's American Dispensatory,' revised and rewrit ten with H. W. Felter, M.D. (1898-1900);
'Elixirs, their History and Preparation' (1892) ; 'A Study in Pharmacy' (1894); 'Etidorpha, the End of Earth' (1895); 'The Right
of the Car) (1897); (Stringtown 'on the Pike' (1900) ;