NORMAN SCOTT CARMICHAEL M.B., Ch.B. Ed., F.R.C.P. Ed. Dr Norman Carmichael, consulting physician to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children, died at his home in 43 Moray Place, on 16th November, at the age of 68. He was throughout his life an Edinburgh man. Born in Northumberland Street, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, studied medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated M.B., Ch.B., in 1905. In his professional path he followed his father in combining general practice with special study of disease in children. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edin- burgh in 1913, when he was already an Assistant Physician at the Children's Hospital. During the 1914-18 European war he went to Salonika with the Edinburgh Hospital, attaining the rank of Major, R.A.M.C., and receiving the Serbian Order of St Sava. On his return home he was appointed in 1920 Physician to the Children's Hospital, and Lecturer in Diseases of Children in the University of Edinburgh. He retired from the hospital service in 1935 on completion of his term of duty. On the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 he again left Edinburgh for military duty at the E.M.S. Hospital at Turnberry, Ayrshire, where he was superintendent and consulting physician. At the close of the war he returned to Edinburgh, resuming his private practice, and also acting for several years as medical superintendent of Leith Hospital. He was also Surgeon-Apothecary to the King at Holyrood Palace, and for many years he was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, King's Bodyguard for Scotland. His father, Dr James Carmichael, physician to the hospital, his older brother Edward, for some years assistant surgeon, and Norman himself also physician, together made a notable family contribution to the work and teaching of the Edinburgh Children's Hospital. Norman was a sound and popular teacher, and he must have formed the practice and ethical standards of many genera- tions of medical students. Among his hospital colleagues he exerted a powerful influence for good ; he never stirred up strife, but when contentious subjects were under discussion, the expression of his views was frank and always courteous ; and in all matters his wise, honourable and friendly character gave weight to everything he said. In his last years when the shadows of ill-health and family bereavement fell upon him, he showed great courage and undiminished cheerfulness. By his patients in hospital and private practice and by his medical colleagues his memory will be cherished.