400  Obituary.  ^Am- Jour-  Pharm- 
July.  1884. 
OBITUARY. 
Peter  Squire,  F.L.S.,  and  an  Honorary  Member  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  died  in  London,  April  6th,  1884,  at  the  ripe  age  of 
86  years.  He  was  born  at  Stratton,  Bedfordshire,  in  1798,  entered  the  drug- 
business  as  an  apprentice  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  and  was  subsequently 
engaged  in  several  establishments  in  London,  and  also  in  Paris.  About 
the  year  1831  he  bought  the  business  in  Oxford  street,  with  which  he 
remained  associated  for  upwards  of  half  a  century.  The  numerous  improve- 
ments introduced  by  him  in  the  preparation  of  extracts,  and  in  the  preser- 
vation of  the  juices  of  medicinal  plants  and  his  success  as  a  practical  phar- 
macist soon  gave  him  prominence.  In  1837  he  was  appointed  chemist  in 
ordinary  on  the  establishment  of  Queen  Victoria.  He  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nal members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  first  Council  and  of  the  first  Board  of  Examiners  in  1842, 
and  continued  to  serve  in  both  capacities  until  1870  and  1869  respectively, 
filling  for  several  years  the  office  of  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society- 
Mr.  Squire's  work,  published  in  1851,  in  which  the  London,  Edinburgh, 
and  Dublin  Pharmacopoeias  were  compared,  forcibly  showed  the  necessity 
for  greater  uniformity  throughout  Great  Britain  in  medicinal  preparations. 
This  was  finally  accomplished  under  the  provisions  of  the  Medical  Act  of 
1858,  and  the  British  Pharmacopoeia  made  its  appearance  in  1864.  The 
"Companion  to  the  British  Pharmacopoeia,"  the  thirteenth  edition  of 
which  appeared  in  1882,  compares  the  Pharmacopoeias  of  the  United  States 
and  of  six  European  countries  with  that  of  Great  Britain.  Mr.  Squire  also 
collected  the  formulas  used  at  the  principal  hospitals  of  London  and  classi- 
fied them  for  ready  comparison  in  '"The  Pharmacopoeias  of  the  London 
Hospitals." 
In  1881  Mr.  Squire  was  a  member  of  the  fifth  International  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Congress,  and  was  selected  one  of  the  vice  presidents  ;  he  contributed 
a  paper  in  which  the  great  diversity  in  the  strength  of  many  important 
galenical  preparations  was  shown  as  recognized  by  the  pharmacopoeias  then 
in  use. 
The  London  "Pharmaceutical  Journal"  says  of  him  :  "Throughout  his 
life,  from  boyhood  to  old  age,  Peter  Squire  was  active,  persevering,  indus- 
trious and  self-reliant.  Whilst  some  of  his  characteristics  were  too  marked 
to  allow  him  always  to  escape  criticism,  yet  if  his  opponents  had  survived, 
instead  of  preceded  him,  as  most  of  theni  have  done,  they  would  have  been 
among  the  first  to  proclaim  that  in  Peter  Squire  pharmacy  has  lost  a  sterling 
man." 
Phillip  Lionel  Milleman,  a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  (class  1866),  died  in  Chicago,  May  8th,  1884,  aged  42  years.  The 
deceased  was  a  native  of  Alsace,  learned  the  drug  business  in  Chicago, 
where  he  established  himself  a  few  years  after  he  graduated.  He  contrib- 
uted several  practical  papers  to  this  Journal. 
We  have  also  received  notice  of  the  death  of  the  following  graduates  of 
the  same  College :. 
Paul  Frederick  Lehlbach  (class  1863),  died  in  New  York  city,  April 
28th  ;  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. 
John  Beatty  Price  (class  1874),  died  in  Wilmington,  Del.,  where  he 
had  learned  the  drug  business  with  E.  Bringhurst  &  Co.  # 
Wm.  Wood  Stockton,  of  Mount  Holly,  1ST.  J.  (class  1876). 
