84      Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  {A^hl°^ 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1878  and  its 
president  in  1890. 
As  an  executive  and  leader  of  men  he  had  international  fame. 
He  was  president  of  the  Seventh  International  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
gress (1893),  a  delegate  to  the  Pan-American  Medical  Congress 
(1893)  and  to  the  Second  Congress  in  Mexico  (1896)  ;  represented 
the  United  States  in  the  Eighth  International  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
gress at  Brussels  (1896)  and  was  president  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Section  of  the  Eighth  International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry 
(1912).  He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  in  Pharmacy 
from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  from  the  North- 
western University  of  Illinois  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Pharmacy,  Phar.D.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  Chemical,  the 
Linnaean  and  the  Royal  Microscopical  Societies  of  Great  Britain; 
honorary  member  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Gesellschaft  zu  St.  Peters- 
burg, Institute  Medica  Nacional  of  Mexico,  Societe  Royal  de  Phar- 
macie  de  Bruxelles,  Societe  de  Pharmacie  d'Anvers ;  an  active 
member  of  the  Philosophical  Society,  American  Chemical  Society, 
American  Geographical  Society,  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of 
Philadelphia,  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  honorary  member 
of  the  Pharmaceutical'  Society  of  Great  Britain,  British  Pharma- 
ceutical Conference;  member  of  the  Federatione  Internationale 
Pharmaceutique  of  The  Hague,  Franklin  Inn  Club  of  Philadelphia, 
Chemists'  Club  of  New  York  and  Authors'  Club  of  London. 
But  his  greatest  work  probably  was  as  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee of  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  a  work  which  has  become  of  vast  importance  by  reason 
of  its  legal  standing  under  the  Federal  and  State  Food  and  Drug 
Acts.  His  connection  with  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  began  in  1877, 
when  he  served  on  an  auxiliary  committee  of  revision.  In  1880, 
1890,  and  1900  he  was  sent  as  a  delegate  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  to  the  national  conventions  and  in  these  served 
as  first  vice-chairman  of  the  final  committee  of  revision.  Upon 
the  death  of  the  chairman  of  the  committee  in  1901,  Professor 
Remington  was  made  chairman,  and  was  again  elected  in  1910, 
holding  the  position  until  his  death.  The  Ninth  Revision,  issued  in 
1916,  may  be  truly  called  his  monument,  since  the  whole  work  is 
stamped  with  his  personality. 
As  a  man,  '  we  ne'er  shall  look  upon  his  like  again.'    '  Genial, 
