SAGER, Abram, physician, born in Bethlehem, New York, 22 December, 1810; died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 6 August, 1877. He was graduated at the Troy polytechnic school in 1831, studied medicine in Albany and at Yale, and was graduated at the Medical school of Castleton, Vermont, in 1835. He settled in Detroit and afterward in Jackson, Michigan From 1837 till 1840 he assisted in the geological survey of Michigan, having charge of the departments of botany and zoology, of which branches he was pro-lessor in the state university from 1842 till 1855. In 1850 he was made professor of obstetrics, and in 1854-'60 he had the chair of diseases of women and children, but he resigned in 1875, when the board of regents introduced homoeopathy. He was a member of various medical and scientific societies, and was president of the Michigan medical society in 1850-'2. Dr. Sager contributed papers to medical journals, and published reports on botany and zo61ogy in 1839. His collection laid the foundation of the present museum of the university, to which he also presented the " Sager Herbarium" of 1,200 species and 12,000 specimens.