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Michael  Carteighe. 
/Am,  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     August,  1910. 
College,  Gower  Street,  first  as  a  student  and  later  as  a  Demonstrator 
in  Chemistry,  working-  under  Professor  Williamson.    There  he  took 
part  in  many  important  chemical  and  physical  researches,  one  of  the 
most  notable  being  an  investigation  of  the  electrical  conductivity 
of  alloys,  wherein  he  was  associated  with  Drs.  Matthiessen  and 
Holzmann ;  the  results  of  this  work  were  embodied  in  a  paper  which 
was  read  before  the  Royal  Society,  and  served  as  the  basis  of  much 
subsequent  work  on  the  same  subject.    It  seemed  at  this  period 
as  though  the  erstwhile  pharmaceutical  apprentice  would  be  attracted 
permanently  to  a  scientific  career,  but  Fate  intervened,  and  it  was 
considered  desirable  that  he  should  become  fully  qualified  as  a 
pharmacist,  and  join  his  elder  brother  in  the  conduct  of  the  business 
with  which  the  name  of  Carteighe  has  ever  since  been  associated. 
Accordingly,  the  year  1862  found  Michael  Carteighe  duly  entered  as 
a  student  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Society's  School  of  Pharmacy. 
He  Dossed  the  Minor  Examination  on  April  15,  1863,  and  three 
months  later  he  passed  the  Major  Examination.    His  success  at  the 
School  gave  promise  of  a  successful  and  useful  career — a  promise 
which  has  been  amply  fulfilled.    To  say  that  he  won  the  medal  for 
chemistrv  and  pharmacy,  the  medal  for  botany  and  materia  medica, 
and  the  Pereira  medal,  would  be  to  give  but  an  inadequate  idea  of  his 
scholastic  achievements.    A  proper  estimate  of  his  work  was  formed 
by  Redwood,  who,  as  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Pharmacy,  in 
reporting-  the  result  of  the  competition  in  these  subjects,  stated  that 
he  took  800  marks  as  representing-  the  highest  value  of  the  answers, 
and  that  one  student  had  obtained  7^  and  another  710.    The  former 
was  Michael  Carteighe  ;  the  latter  Charles  Umney.    Professor  Bent- 
lev  was  enn  allv  complimentary.    He  said  that  of  Michael  Carteighe 
he  ro«M  trulv  sav  he  was  an  ornament  to  his  teachers  and  to  the 
qrVio^l  in  which  he  was  educated,  and  he  felt  sure  that  he  would 
distHcHiish  himself  in  his  future  career.    The  value  of  his  answers 
at  the  written  examination  was  at  least  equal  to  that  he  had  ever 
met  with  in  any  institution,  and  in  the  viva  voce  examination  he  had 
taken  the  highest  value  allotted  to  the  answers.    But  something 
more  striking  was  still  to  happen.    At  the  close  of  the  prize  distribu- 
tion Mr.  Carteighe  surprised  the  gathering:  by  asking  permission  to 
sav  a  few  words  in  reference  to  the  Pereira  medal,  and  before  the 
President  had  recovered  from  his  surprise  the  young  medalist  pro- 
ceeded to  point  out  the  weak  points  in  the  examination  from  which 
he  had  successfully  emerged.    This  incident,  trivial  in  itself,  throws 
