jo  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington.     { ^'bJuary  Pih9iT' 
of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  had  been  shown  when  in  1887  he  elaborated  a  plan 
for  reorganizing  this  Association  and  establishing  several  of  the 
Seotions  which  have  been  so  valuable  in  the  work  of  the  Association, 
all  of  its  work  having  previously  been  done  by  the  entire  body.  In 
1880  he  had  aided  in  the  establishment  of  the  council  as  the  govern- 
ing body  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.,  and  served  as  chairman  of  that  important 
executive  body  for  seven  years  altogether,  some  of  which  were  in 
its  earlier  period  and  some  later. 
In  1896  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharma- 
ceutical Association.  In  1897  he  became  pharmaceutical  editor  of 
Lippincott's  Medical  Dictionary,  a  standard  reference  work  which 
has  passed  through  many  subsequent  editions. 
In  1887  he  attended  the  American  Medical  Association  meeting 
as  a  delegate  from  the  A.  Ph.  A.  and  induced  that  body  to  establish 
a  section  on  materia  medica  and  pharmacy,  which  later  became  the 
Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics.  He  was  often  a  dele- 
gate from  pharmaceutical  to  medical  organizations  in  later  years 
and  has  done  more  than  any  other  single  man  to  promote  cordial 
relations  between  the  professions  of  medicine  and  pharmacy. 
In  1901  occurred  the  death  of  Dr.  Charles  Rice,  then  chairman 
of  the  U.  S.  P.  revision  committee.  Professor  Remington  was 
first  vice-chairman,  but  instead  of  automatically  succeeding  to  the 
chairmanship,  he  called  for  a  special  election  to  fill  the  vacancy  and 
was  himself  elected  by  a  vote  of  22  to  4. 
The  difficulties  encountered  in  accomplishing  the  Eighth  Decen- 
nial Revision  were  very  great,  and  a  number  of  the  most  prominent 
officers  and  members  of  the  committee  died  during  the  period  in 
which  the  revision  was  being  done.  The  work  was  handled  so  well, 
however,  and  the  demonstration  of  his  great  executive  and  harmoniz- 
ing abilities  was  so  convincing,  that  when  the  Convention  met  in 
1910  to  select  the  committee  for  the  Ninth  Decennial  Revision,  he 
was  the  member  receiving  the  largest  number  of  votes  cast  for  any 
individual  as  a  member  of  that  body  and  when  the  newly  elected 
revision  committee  was  organized  for  work  he  was  immediately 
and  unanimously  chosen  its  chairman.  Of  the  work  on  this  later 
revision,  issued  a  little  more  than  a  year  ago,  nothing  need  be  said. 
It  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  ability,  the  last  and  greatest  work 
of  his  hand  and  brain. 
In  1912  he  presided  over  the  Pharmaceutical  Section  of  the 
