AFeJuary  P?gST' }    Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
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Royal  Microscopical  Societies  of  Great  Britain.  These  honors  were 
later  succeeded  by  honorary  membership  in  the  Pharmaceutical  So- 
ciety of  Great  Britain,  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference, 
Pharmaceutical  Gesellschaft  zu  St.  Petersburg,  Institute  Medico 
Nacional  Mexico,  Societe  de  Pharmacie  d'Anvers,  Societe  Royale  de 
Pharmacie  de  Bruxelles. 
He  has  also  been  the  recipient  of  many  honorary  degrees,  in- 
cluding Ph.M.  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Phar.D.  of 
the  Northwestern  University  of  Chicago.  Of  American  scientific 
societies  he  is  an  honorary  member  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of 
the  City  of  New  York  and  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations 
of  New  York,  New  Jersey,  New  Hampshire,  Nebraska,  Ohio, 
Colorado,  Virginia,  Georgia,  Minnesota  and  others.  He  was  proud 
of  his  honorary  membership  in  the  New  York  Deutscher  Apotheker 
Verein  and  the  Chicago  Veteran  Retail  Druggists'  Association. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, American  Philosophical  Society,  the  American  Chemical 
Society,  the  American  Geographical  Society,  the  Academy  of 
Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia,  the  Historical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania, the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  the  Pennsylvania 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  Chemists'  Club  of  New  York,  and 
others. 
His  literary  ability  brought  him  recognition  in  membership  in 
the  Franklin  Inn  Club  of  Philadelphia  and  the  Authors'  Club  of 
London. 
He  was  the  official  representative  of  the  United  States  at  the 
Eighth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  at  Brussels  in  1896 
and  in  19 13  at  the  Hague,  was  a  delegate  to  the  Pan-American 
Medical  Congress  in  1893  an^  again  in  1896. 
In  1893  he  was  elected  dean  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  succeeding  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch,  who  died  during  the 
summer  of  that  year.    This  position  he  held  until  his  death. 
In  1893  he  had  the  honor  of  occupying  the  presidential  chair  in 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  what  was  probably  the 
most  important  meeting  in  its  history  up  to  that  time,  it  being  held 
in  Chicago  during  the  World's  Fair  of  that  year,  and  there  was 
held  at  the  same  time  and  place  an  International  Pharmaceutical 
Conference,  over  which  he  also  presided. 
His  influence  in  shaping  the  policies  and  promoting  the  success 
