58  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington.  {A™ebmSry 
At  this  period  of  Professor  Remington's  life  he  was  a  man  of 
quite  different  personal  appearance  from  that  which  distinguished 
him  in  later  years,  for  he  wore  a  full  beard  of  a  reddish-brown 
color,  and  one  of  the  most  interesting  paintings  in  the  valuable  col- 
lection on  the  walls  of  the  college  museum  is  one  of  the  Professor 
Remington  at  about  that  time. 
In  1874  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Collins,  also  of  Quaker  an- 
cestry, and  in  the  early  8o's  established  a  summer  home  on  the  then 
almost  unpopulated  beach  below  Atlantic  City  known  as  Longport, 
at  which  place  he  did  most  of  his  most  valuable  literary  and  revision 
committee  work,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  growth  and  develop- 
ment of  the  Borough. 
In  1877  he  aided  and  encouraged  the  establishment  of  labora- 
tory instruction  in  the  college  and  was  elected  director  of  the  phar- 
maceutical laboratory  in  that  year. 
In  1878  he  became  one  of  the  organizers  and  charter  members 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  in  1879  he  be- 
came one  of  the  associate  editors  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory, 
a  position  held  continuously  until  his  death. 
In  this  same  year  he  developed  the  methods  of  laboratory  teach- 
ing in  pharmacy  which  have  been  so  successfully  followed  in  later 
years  by  all  teachers  of  pharmacy.  The  first  operative  pharmacy 
laboratory  of  about  60  desks  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy was  equipped  by  him  at  his  own  expense. 
In  1885  he  gave  up  his  retail  business  at  13th  and  Walnut  and 
purchased  the  home  at  1832  Pine  Street,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death,  except  during  the  summer  months,  which  were  spent  at  Long- 
port.  It  was  in  1885  tnat  his  great  work,  the  "  Practice  of  Phar- 
macy," was  first  issued.  This  is  probably  the  most  widely  known 
textbook  of  pharmacy  in  the  world  and  is  now  in  its  sixth  edition. 
His  first  connection  with  pharmacopceial  revision  work  was  in 
1877,  when  he  was  appointed  upon  an  auxiliary  committee  of  revi- 
sion by  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  In  1880  he  was  a 
member  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  was 
chosen  as  a  member  of  the  revision  committee  and  served  as  first 
vice-chairman.  This  honor  was  again  conferred  upon  him  by  the 
Decennial  Convention  of  1900. 
In  1886-7  Professor  Remington  received  his  first  honors  from 
abroad  in  his  election  to  Fellowships  in  the  Chemical,  Linnsean  and 
