82       Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  {AFebralryP^T' 
Then  followed  the  reading  of  the  resolutions  prepared  by  a  com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  pre- 
sented by  Joseph  W.  England,  chairman  of  the  committee. 
In  Memoriam  Joseph  Price  Remington,  1847-1918. 
Whereas,  In  the  demise  of  Joseph  Price  Remington,  American 
pharmacy  has  lost  its  foremost  figure  and  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  its  most  distinguished  son,  therefore  be  it 
Resolved,  that  we,  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  in  special  meeting  assembled,  express  our  deep  sorrow 
at  his  passing  and  pay  tribute  to  his  work  and  worth. 
As  a  pharmacist,  he  labored  in  all  the  branches  of  pharma- 
ceutical practice,  retail,  wholesale  and  manufacturing,  acquiring  an 
unusually  wide  experience.  He  was  graduated  from  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  in  1866,  the  subject  of  his  thesis  being 
"  Our  Alma  Mater,  Its  Rise  and  Progress,"  little  dreaming,  perhaps, 
that  he  was  destined  to  become  a  most  important  factor  in  its  de- 
velopment during  the  next  fifty  years. 
As  an  educator,  he  was  trained  by  Edward  Parrish  and  Wil- 
liam Procter,  Jr.,  two  of  the  greatest  pharmacists  that  American 
pharmacy  produced  in  the  last  century.  In  1874  he  was  elected  to 
the  chair  of  theory  and  practice  of  pharmacy  of  his  alma  mater, 
later  becoming  also  professor  of  operative  pharmacy  and  director 
of  the  pharmaceutical  laboratory  (1877)  and  then  dean  of  the 
college  (1893).  He  has  taught  thousands  of  students.  He  was  an 
impressive  teacher,  presenting  his  subjects  in  a  logical  and  practical 
manner ;  his  language  was  clear  and  forcible  and  his  voice  distinct 
and  penetrating.  He  had  a  magnetic  personality  and  his  lectures 
made  a  deep  and  lasting  impression.  He  was  the  students'  friend, 
beloved  by  all.  He  may  have  been  said  to  have  been  a  teacher  of 
teachers,  for  most  of  the  successful  teachers  of  pharmacy  in 
America  to-day  have  been  pupils  of  his  at  some  time  in  their  careers. 
Not  only  this,  but  he  exercised  a  potential  influence  upon  phar- 
maceutical education,  generally,  being  most  active  in  developing 
many  improvements  and  important  changes  in  methods  of  teach- 
ing. His  method  of  instruction  in  operative  pharmacy  led  to  the 
creation  of  a  pharmaceutical  laboratory  in  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  the  first  of  its  kind  in  this  country,  the  essential 
features  of  which  have  been  adopted  by  nearly  all  of  the  colleges 
