Am  jour.  Pharm.  |       Letter  from  John  Uri 
February,  19 18.   J  J 
73 
A  LETTER  TO  THE  EDITOR— RELATING  TO  PROF. 
JOSEPH  P.  REMINGTON.1 
I  have  been  informed  that  Professor  Remington  is  very  low,  and 
that  possibly  we  may  never  have  the  opportunity  of  another  visit 
together.  One  may  be  excused,  in  a  case  like  this,  for  addressing 
a  mutual  friend,  even  though  the  subject  be  painful  to  both,  and 
thus  I  take  the  privilege  of  writing  you,  who,  now  residing  in  the 
city  home  of  Professor  Remington,  as  editor  of  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  will  be  in  affiliating  sym- 
pathy with  persons  like  myself,  afar  off. 
These  many  years  ago  Professor  Remington  and  I  met  first  in 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  1879.  Professor  Remington  was  then  in  the  vigor  of 
his  early  manhood.  I  studied  him  as  a  hero,  because  even  at  that 
date  his  magnificent  services  to  pharmacy  had  led  everyone  to  con- 
sider him  as  perhaps  the  most  conspicuous  incoming  American 
engaged  in  pure  pharmacy  in  all  its  outreaches.  A  professor  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy;  a  successful  conductor  of  a 
drug  store  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia schooled  as  he  had  been  with 
such  men  as  Procter,  Parrish  and  Maisch,  with  the  practical  experi- 
ence that  came  from  personal  effort  under  that  Nestor  of  American 
pharmacy,  Dr.  Edw.  R.  Squibb,  in  whose  laboratory  Professor 
Remington,  close  to  Squibb,  served  an  apprenticeship, — this,  too, 
years  after  he  began  his  apprenticeship  opportunity  with  the  estab- 
lished house  of  Charles  Ellis  Sons  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia.  One 
can  but  comprehend  that  to  the  present  writer  the  chance,  to  one 
whose  opportunities  had  not  been  great,  of  meeting  this  celebrated 
pharmacist,  was  an  epoch,  an  event. 
May  this  writer  not  add  that  possibly  but  for  Professor  Rem- 
ington he  might  not  himself  have  been  long  in  the  service  of  phar- 
macy? Remington  it  was  who  championed  his  cause  in  a  personal 
way  at  Indianapolis,  even  volunteering  and  reading  the  paper  pre- 
pared by  the  writer  for  that  occasion,  "  On  the  Conditions  Neces- 
sary to  Successfully  Conduct  Percolation."2 
1  From  the  Journal  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Jan- 
uary, 1918. 
2  See  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  1879, 
p.  682. 
