The Laboratory of Professor Huntington

It was noted in McCance s obituary of Desch that Desch did not find it easy to work with Professor Huntington who was quick tempered and exacting. 45(a) Macadam undertook accurate analysis of metal samples, which were then examined metallo-graphically by Desch. In January 1909, Macadam and Desch were married. McCance quotes Huntington that Cecil Desch had robbed him of his best assistant. 45(a) The Desch family moved shortly afterwards to Glasgow, where Desch had been appointed as Lecturer in metallurgical chemistry. Macadam had two daughters, and the only other reference to her was at a later appointment of Desch at the University of Sheffield, that  

Emily L. B. Forster was another of Huntingdon s research students. Little is known about her except that she was working with Huntington at the time she, too, signed the 1909 letter. Forster later became Lecturer at the Westminster College of Pharmacy (see Chap. 10). She authored two books How to Become a Woman Doctor and Analytical Chemistry as a Profession for Women 1 

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