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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1918. 
devote  his  energy  to  pharmacy  and  so  he  established  the  drug  firm 
of  A.  B.  Huested  &  Co.,  in  which  business  he  retained  an  interest 
until  a  few  years  ago. 
In  1883,  he  was  elected  to  fill  the  chair  of  materia  medica  in 
the  Albany  College  of  Pharmacy  and  retained  this  position  from 
that  time  until  last  November.  For  the  last  five  years  he  has,  like- 
wise, served  as  secretary  of  the  Albany  College. 
In  1884,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Cleveland  a  member  of 
the  first  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  the  State  of  New  York.  At  the 
organization  of  the  board,  he  was  made  president  and  filled  this  posi- 
tion for  sixteen  years  and  at  the  time  of  his  decease  he  was  still  a 
member  thereof. 
Dr.  Huested  was  president  of  the  New  York  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  from  1880  to  1884.  -  He  joined  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1879  and  in  company  with  Mrs. 
Huested  was  a  very  faithful  attendant  at  the  annual  meetings. 
Thomas  Tyrer. — Mr.  Thomas  Tyrer,  F.C.S.,  F.I.C.,  treasurer 
of  the  Society  of  Chemical  Industry  and  engaged  in  business  as  the 
managing  director  of  Thomas  Tyrer  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  Stirling  Chemical 
Works  of  Stratford,  died  suddenly  at  his  home,  Hampstead,  London, 
N.  W.,  on  February  21,  aged  seventy-six.  He  was  born  at  Wolver- 
hampton and  his  early  education  was  in  his  father's  school.  In 
1 861,  he  came  to  London  and  entered  as  a  student  in  the  Royal  Col- 
lege of  Chemistry  where  in  Chemistry  he  studied  under  Prof.  Hof- 
mann  and  in  biology  under  Prof.  Huxley  and  physics  under  Prof. 
Tyndall. 
For  more  than  fifty  years  he  was  associated  with  the  manufacture 
of  chemicals  and  pharmaceuticals.  Although  not  educated  as  a  phar- 
macist much  of  his  personal  work  was  in  the  drug  and  chemical  in- 
dustries closely  allied  with  the  drug  business.  In  1907,  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference,  breaking  established  precedents,  elected 
Mr.  Tyrer  as  its  president ;  a  compliment  as  deserved  as  it  was  ap- 
preciated. 
He  was  very  closely  associated  with  the  work  of  the  Society  of 
Chemical  Industry.  He  served  a  term  as  the  President  of  this  So- 
ciety and  for  many  years  acted  as  the  Secretary  of  the  London 
Section  of  the  Society.  As  a  member  of  the  Chemical  Trade  Sec- 
tion of  the  London  Chamber  of  Commerce,  he  took  a  very  active 
part  in  the  numerous  questions  of  great  interest  to  the  development 
of  these  industries  and  the  upbuilding  of  export  trade  therein. 
