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Charles  C  as  pari,  Jr. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
December,  191 7. 
University  of  Maryland,  afterwards  discontinued  but  then  under  the 
direction  of  Dr.  Dalrymple,  an  educator  noted  for  his  thoroughness, 
broad  scholarship  and  fidelity  to  the  older  ideals  in  education.  The 
student  spent  four  years  in  this  atmosphere,  so  like  that  of  his  home, 
and  became  possessed  of  that  thorough  and  diversified  liberal  educa- 
tion which  was  to  be  reflected  in  his  own  work  as  author,  teacher 
and  editor.  Lessons  were  studied  in  the  forenoon  in  English,  to  be 
repeated  on  alternate  afternoons  in  German  and  French.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  this  training  was  completed  and  he  began  his  pharma- 
ceutical education,  the  foundation  for  which  his  father  had  so  well 
laid,  as  an  apprentice  in  the  store  of  Sharp  &  Dohme.  Here  he  came 
under  the  influence  of  Mr.  Louis  Dohme,  to  whose  knowledge  and 
ability  as  a  preceptor  was  attributed  much  of  his  detailed  and  thor- 
ough information  about  pharmacy  and  chemistry.  The  preceptor 
outlined  a  comprehensive  course  in  theory  and  practice  and  gave 
liberally  of  his  time  and  advice  to  see  that  his  apt  pupil  accom- 
plished every  task  promptly.  He  entered  the  Maryland  College 
of  Pharmacy  in  1867,  graduating  in  1869,  at  the  same  time  com- 
pleting his  apprenticeship,  and  continued  in  the  employ  of  Sharp 
&  Dohme. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father,  the  son  entered  the  practice  of 
pharmacy  as  his  successor  and  continued  the  business  until  1875, 
when  he  sold  it  and  bought  a  store  at  Baltimore  Street  and  Fremont 
Avenue.  Later  an  interest  was  also  acquired  in  a  store  at  Harlem 
Avenue  and  Carey  Street,  and  he  conducted  these  places  of  business 
until  1890,  when  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  devote  his  entire 
time  to  other  interests.  In  the  conduct  of  his  stores,  he  maintained 
the  high  ideals  which  he  professed  and  gained  the  full  confidence 
of  his  customers  and  of  the  physicians.  During  1876  and  1877,  he 
traveled  extensively  for  Sharp  &  Dohme. 
Dr.  Caspari  had,  in  the  meantime,  entered  his  true  vocation, 
when  in  1879,  ne  succeeded  the  late  J.  Faris  Moore  as  professor  of 
the  theory  and  practice  of  pharmacy  in  his  alma  mater,  a  work  he 
was  to  continue  until  the  day  before  his  death  and  to  which  he  gave 
his  full  measure  of  devotion.  While  his  success  as  a  lecturer  was 
immediate,  he  considered  as  possibly  his  greatest  contribution  to 
the  teaching  of  pharmacy,  the  inauguration  of  a  laboratory  for  in- 
struction in  practical  pharmacy,  the  first  in  this  institution.  He 
became  dean  of  the  faculty  in  1896,  and  continued  as  such  after  the 
college  became  the  department  of  pharmacy  of  the  University  of 
