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Michael  Carteighe. 
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"  Syrup  of  Phosphate  of  Iron  and  other  Syrups  containing  Phos- 
phoric Acid."  At  Bristol,  in  1873,  he  delivered  a  lecture,  which  was 
illustrated  with  experiments,  on  "  The  Diffusion  and  Occlusion  of 
Gases/'  a  lecture  which  showed  his  mastery  of  a  difficult  branch 
of  physics.  But  it  was  his  addresses  on  pharmaceutical  politics  by 
which  the  greater  number  of  pharmacists  will  remember  him.  Some 
of  his  most  brilliant  efforts  were  made  extemporaneously  on  occa- 
sions when  no  reporters  were  present  to  place  his  utterances  on  rec- 
ord. In  speech  he  was  a  model  of  lucidity;  he  not  only  knew  his 
subject  thoroughly,  but  had  the  gift  of  presenting  essential  facts  in 
such  a  way  that  his  hearers  not  only  understood  what  he  intended, 
but  carried  away  with  them  what  he  intended  they  should  remember. 
His  speeches  expounded  the  policy  which  he  consistently  and  per- 
sistently followed.  He  ever  kept  in  view  the  main  fact  that  Parlia- 
mentary and  public  recognition  can  never  be  accorded  to  the  com- 
mercial side  of  the  business  of  the  chemist  and  druggist,  and  that 
protection  of  the  professional  side  must  be  won  by  the  exhibition 
of  special  fitness  in  the  individuals  who  claim  to  work  for  the  public 
safety.  Hence  the  promotion  of  sounder  education  and  technical 
training,  the  institution  of  research  work,  and  the  perfection  of 
the  machinery  of  examination,  which  must  be  forever  identified 
with  Mr.  Carteighe's  name.  And  hence,  too,  the  metamorphosis 
in  the  School  and  its  equipment,  the  foundation  of  the  Research 
Laboratory,  the  development  of  the  Journal,  the  Museum,  and  the 
Library,  which  earned  for  him  the  sobriquet  of  the  "  spendthrift 
President."  But  who  shall  say  that  the  money  was  squandered? 
Surely  not  his  successors,  who  have  been  enabled  to  harvest  in  many 
of  the  fields  he  has  ploughed! 
In  1893  he  went  to  America  with  a  number  of  members  of  the 
Council  of  the  Society  of  Arts,  which  for  the  time  being  was  con- 
stituted a  Royal  Commission  for  the  organization  of  the  British 
section  at  the  Chicago  World's  Fair.  Among  Mr.  Carteighe's  col- 
leagues on  that  occasion  were  Sir  Richard  Webster,  the  present 
Lord  Alverstone  (Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England),  Mr.  J.  Fletcher 
Moulton,  now  Lord  Justice  Moulton,  and  other  distinguished  per- 
sonages. While  in  Chicago  he  attended  the  forty-first  meeting  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  where  he  had  a  very 
cordial  reception  and  addressed  the  members  present,  being  intro- 
duced to  the  meeting  by  Professor  Remington  as  a  "  gentleman  who 
