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Obituary. 
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American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  who  for  the  past  decade 
has  filled  a  number  of  important  positions  associated  with  the  trade 
interests,  has  been  appointed  Captain,  Sanitary  Corps,  Medical  De- 
partment of  the  Army.  Captain  McCartney  has  been  assigned  to 
service  at  the  Medical  Supply  Depot  at  New  York  City. 
Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power  Honored. — Dr.  F.  B.  Power,  who  began 
his  career  as  a  research  worker  while  a  teacher  in  the  Chemical 
Laboratory  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  his  alma  mater, 
and  who  later  achieved  an  enviable  reputation  as  an  investigator 
mainly  in  connection  with  research  carried  on  in  the  laboratories  of 
Mess  Burroughs  &  Wellcome  in  England,  is  serving  as  a  member 
of  the  Chemical  Committee  of  the  National  Research  Council  which 
is  playing  an  important  role  in  the  present  war.  He  is  engaged  in 
the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  as  an  expert  in  pyto-chemistry. 
Recently  he  has  been  further  honored  by  election  to  the  presidency 
of  the  Washington  Chemical  Society  and  also  as  Vice-President  of 
the  Washington  Academy  of  Sciences. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr.  Alfred  Birch  Huested. — Alfred  B.  Huested,  M.D.,  Ph.G., 
until  recently  professor  of  botany  and  materia  medica  at  the  Albany 
College  of  Pharmacy,  died  at  his  home  in  Delmar,  N.  Y.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 23,  after  an  illness  dating  back  to  November  of  last  year. 
Dr.  Huested  was  born  at  Clifton  Park,  N.  Y.,  May  15,  1840. 
At  the  age  of  12  years  he  removed  to  Albany,  in  which  city  he  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  1910,  and  it  was  here  that  his  active  work  in 
pharmacy  was  accomplished.  . 
His  early  education  was  in  the  public  schools  of  Albany.  At  the 
age  of  16,  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business  with  the  firm  of  Dexter 
&  Nelliger  with  whom  he  continued  until  1859,  when  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine. 
In  1862  he  volunteered  and  entered  the  service  as  hospital 
steward.  Obtaining  a  short  furlough  of  20  days  during  the  winter 
of  1863-1864,  he  returned  to  Albany,  passed  the  medical  college 
examinations  and  that  of  the  State  Board.  He  was  commissioned 
as  first  lieutenant  and  assistant  surgeon  in  the  21st  New  York  Cav- 
alry and  remained  in  this  service  until  the  summer  of  1866.  In  this 
year  he  determined  to  relinquish  the  practice  of  medicine  and  to 
