^February  P?g ST" }    Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington.  yi 
Eighth  International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry  at  New  York 
City.  . 
The  foregoing  chronological  survey  of  more  than  fifty  years  of 
Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington's  professional  activities  reveals  a 
wealth  of  accomplishment  that  would  suffice  for  a  number  of  ordi- 
nary individuals.  His  was  no  ordinary  nature,  however.  One  of 
his  secrets  of  success,  which  was  really  no  secret  at  all,  but  an 
exhibition  of  that  wonderful  common  sense  which  after  all  is  so 
uncommon  in  application,  was  his  system  of  combining  work  and 
play  in  such  proportions  as  enabled  him  to  do  twice  as  much  work 
as  if  he  had  devoted  his  entire  time  to  work  alone.  His  power  of 
concentration,  his  passion  for  careful  attention  to  details,  his  in- 
sistenc  upon  the  same  standards  in  those  who  worked  for  him,  are 
all  evidences  of  a  master  mind. 
Early  in  his  life,  Professor  Remington  and  his  wife  were  both 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  but  about  1880  he  joined  the 
Episcopalian  Church  and  was  for  many  years  intimately  associated 
with  Holy  Trinity  Church  as  a  Sunday-School  worker,  a  member 
of  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew  and  as  a  vestryman. 
His  deep  interest  in  church  work  was  shown  by  the  fact  that  he 
deeded  the  land  and  contributed  generously  to  the  finances  of  the 
Church  of  the  Redeemer  at  Longport,  which  was  under  his  im- 
mediate supervision  while  he  lived  and  which  was  directed  in  his 
will  to  be  turned  over  to  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  at  his  death. 
His  simplicity  in  his  habits  of  life,  his  innate  cleanness  of 
thought  and  speech,  his  "  camaraderie  "  and  "  gemuthlichkeit "  were 
qualities  that  made  him  loved  and  respected.  His  loyalty  to  his 
alma  mater  and  his  constant  thought  and  service  in  her  interests 
can  be  attested  by  thousands  of  "  his  boys  "  as  his  students  loved 
to  hear  him  call  them. 
His  deep  abiding  faith  in  the  nobility  and  dignity  of  pharmacy 
as  a  profession  was  his  strongest  trait.  No  task  was  too  difficult 
to  perform,  no  expense  was  questioned  when  he  saw  a  chance  to 
be  of  service  to  a  profession  of  which  he  was  so  proud.  He  prob- 
ably has  attended  more  meetings  and  taken  an  important  part  there- 
in, than  any  other  professional  man  of  our  time. 
His  diplomatic  power  and  his  harmonizing  influence  were 
wonderful.  Time  and  time  again  has  he  stepped  into  the  breach 
when  discord  seemed  to  reign  supreme  and  by  his  compelling 
