AFebruary  ^giT'  }  Memorial  Meeting  to  Professor  Remington.  87 
Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen,  Friends  of  the  College,  Friends 
of  the  late  Professor  Remington:  It  is,  of  course,  a  very  personal 
and  therefore  a  very  hard  matter  for  me  to  talk  this  afternoon.  I 
became  acquainted  with  Joseph  Price  Remington  first  in  1878,  when 
I  was  called  here  to  assist  the  late  Dr.  Bridges  in  the  lectures  on 
chemistry.  We  became  very  intimately  acquainted,  shortly  there- 
after, as  we  both  worked  from  1880  on  at  the  U.  S.  Dispensatory, 
and  from  that  time  our  association  was  very  close  and  we  came  to 
know  each  other  very  well.  Independently  of  that  work,  our  con- 
stant association  in  the  teaching  work  of  the  College  and  later  on 
the  U.  S.  P.  Revision  Committee  brought  us  into  closer  contact.  All 
this  threw  me  constantly  into  association  with  him.  Therefore  I 
feel  a  great  personal  loss.  The  feeling  of  that  loss  will  be  a  re- 
current one,  not  to-day  alone,  but  repeatedly. 
I  want  to  speak  more  particularly  of  the  loss  which  this  college 
and  pharmacy  generally  will  sustain  in  the  death  of  Professor  Rem- 
ington. He  was  not  only  the  most  widely  known  and  honored  pro- 
fessor of  this  college  and  the  dean  of  the  college,  but  we  may 
properly  say  that  he  took  the  whole  burden  of  looking  after  the 
name  and  interests  of  the  college  throughout  the  world.  Wherever 
pharmacists  were  gathered  he  was  looked  upon  as  the  typical  repre- 
sentative of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  His  loss  will  be 
felt,  not  only  to-day,  but  through  succeeding  years.  American 
pharmacy  has  suffered  a  great  loss.  Many  of  the  gentlemen  here 
will  testify,  from  personal  knowledge,  that  he  was  in  touch  with 
every  phase  of  these  varied  activities  probably  more  than  any  other 
man  in  the  United  States,  not  only  in  the  teaching  of  pharmacy  but 
in  presenting  pharmacy  and  its  achievements  to  the  public,  and 
later  in  making  up  that  great  summary  of  pharmaceutical  teaching 
for  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  professions,  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia,  which  has  moreover,  since  the  passage  of  the  Food 
and  Drug  Act,  become  the  legal  standard  for  the  purity  of  drugs 
and  medicinal  preparations.  The  work  that  he  did  on  the  U.  S. 
Dispensatory  and  his  own  '  Practice  of  Pharmacy,'  beginning  in 
1883,  must  also  be  remembered. 
In  all  of  these  lines  he  was  active  and  foremost,  taking  the 
work  of  several  men  on  his  own  shoulders.  He  had  reached  the 
age  of  three  score  and  ten  and  any  years  that  remained  after  that 
must  be  considered  as  a  gift  of  Providence.    While  he  could  not 
