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Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington, 
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various  State  authorities,  and  when  the  time  became  ripe  for  pre- 
requisite legislation  he  was  one  of  the  hardest  workers  in  securing 
the  passage  of  the  prerequisite  amendment  to  the  Pharmacy  Law  in 
the  State  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  Spring  of  1905. 
In  1886-7  Professor  Remington  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the 
Chemical,  of  the  Linnean,  and  of  the  Royal  Microscopical  Societies 
of  Great  Britain.  He  has  been  a  recipient  of  the  honorary  degree 
of  Master  in  Pharmacy  (Ph.M.)  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharm- 
acy, and  that  of  Doctor  of  Pharmacy  (Phar.D.)  from  the  Northwest- 
ern University  of  Chicago.  He  is  an  honorary  member  of  the 
College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  of  the  State 
Pharmaceutical  Associations  of  New  York,  New  Jersey,  New  Hamp- 
shire, Nebraska,  Ohio,  Colorado,  Virginia,  Georgia  and  others.  He 
is  a  member  of  The  American  Philosophical  Society,  The  American 
Chemical  Society,  The  American  Geographical  Society,  a  life  mem- 
ber of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  appointed  to  represent 
the  United  States  at  the  Eighth  International  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
gress, held  at  Brussels  in  1896;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Pan-American 
Medical  Congress  in  1893  ;  also  to  the  second  Congress  in  Mexico 
in  1896.  He  holds  honorable  membership  in  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Great  Britain,  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference, 
Pharmaceutische  Gesellschaft  zu  St.  Petersburg,  Institute  Medico 
Nacional,  Mexico ;  Societe  de  Pharmacie  d'Anvers,  Societe  Royale 
de  Pharmacie  de  Bruxelles.  He  also  holds  membership  in  the  Art 
Club,  the  Society  of  American  Authors,  the  Franklin  Inn  Club/and 
the  Church  Club,  all  of  Philadelphia. 
Professor  Remington's  connection  with  the  United  States  Phar- 
macopoeia commenced  in  1 877,  when  he  was  appointed  to  serve  on 
an  auxiliary  Committee  of  Revision  appointed  by  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy.  The  following  year  the  same  institution  ap- 
pointed him  as  a  delegate  to  the  National  Convention  for  revising 
the  Pharmacopoeia,  which  body  met  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1880. 
The  report  of  the  committee  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy was  of  such  great  value  to  the  Revision  Committee  that  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  final  revising  committee  and  chosen 
first  vice-chairman  of  that  body.  In  1890  he  was  again  sent  as  a 
delegate  by  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  to  the  National 
Convention  which  met  in  Washington,  and  was  again  elected  to  tiie 
