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Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
A.m.  Jr>nr.  Pharm. 
August,  1905. 
position  of  first  vice-chairman  of  the  final  Committee  of  Revision, 
and  it  was  while  serving  in  this  capacity  that  the  lamented  death  of 
Charles  Rice,  Chairman  of  the  National  Revision  Committee,  occurred 
on  May  13,  1901.  Although  elected  first  vice-chairman  for  the 
purpose  of  succeeding  to  the  chairmanship,  Professor  Remington 
felt  that  such  an  important  position  should  not  be  filled  by  succes- 
sion and,  after  serving  a  short  time  until  the  office  was  in  running 
order,  he  asked  for  a  special  election  to  fill  the  position  of  chairman, 
for  the  enormous  amount  of  time  and  labor  which  this  position 
demands  was  not  wholly  at  his  disposal.  Of  the  twenty-six  mem- 
bers of  the  Committee  of  Revision,  twenty-two  voted  for  the  election 
of  Professor  Remington,  and  he  felt  that,  under  the  circumstances, 
it  was  his  duty  to  accept. 
The  eighth  decennial  revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia 
has  been  accomplished  under  great  difficulties.  An  unusual  number 
of  deaths  occurred  in  the  committee.  The  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Revision  and  the  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia,  both  died  in  office,  and  four  other  members 
passed  away. 
Professor  Remington's  summer  months  are  spent  at  his  seaside 
home  in  Longport,  N.  J.,  where  much  of  the  work  of  Pharmacopceial 
revision  has  been  carried  on  under  his  immediate  supervision  and 
active  participation.  His  judicious  system  of  combining  both  busi- 
ness and  pleasure  in  the  proper  proportions  has  enabled  him  to 
accomplish  a  wonderful  amount  of  work  without  losing  the  buoyancy 
of  manner  and  cheerfulness  of  disposition  which  have  always  been 
characteristic  of  him,  and  which  have  won  him  the  friendship  of  all 
who  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  be  associated  with  him.  One 
of  his  most  prominent  characteristics,  and  the  one  to  which  his 
success  may  be  largely  attributed,  is  his  wonderful  painstaking 
attention  to  the  minute  details  of  whatever  work  occupies  his  atten- 
tion for  the  moment.  This  is  due  to  his  remarkable  power  of  con- 
centration upon  the  subject  at  hand,  which  often  enables  him  to  do 
more  than  double  the  amount  of  work  upon  any  subject  than  is  done 
by  the  ordinary  worker  in  a  given  time,  and  his  insistence  upon  the 
same  intensity  of  purpose  in  those  who  are  associated  with  him  in 
any  undertaking,  marks  his  ability  as  a  leader  of  no  ordinary  calibre. 
Piofessor  Remington  is  a  fluent  and  forceful  speaker  upon  any 
subject  pertaining  to  his  professional  work,  and  his  ability  as  a 
