Joseph P. Remington**The editor has received permission to print this letter from Prof. John Uri Lloyd, a life-long friend of the deceased. The references to the latter’s life and character have prompted this action. Owing to the nearness of publication day, other matter relating to Professor Remington will be deferred for the February number.
✍ Scribed by Lloyd, John Uri
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 1918
- Weight
- 627 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-140X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
NO. 1 JOSEPH P. REMINGTON.* I have been informed that Professor Remington is very low, and that possibly we may never have the opportunity of another visit together. One may be excused, in a case like this, for addressing a mutual friend, even though the subjec be painful to both, and thus I take the privilege of writing you, who, now residint in the city home of Professor Remington, as editor of the JOURNAL OF THE AMERI- CAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, will be in affiliating sympathy with persons like myself, afar off.
These many years ago Professor Remington and I met first in Indianapolis, Ind., at the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 1879. Professor Remington was then in the vigor of his early manhood. I studied him as a hero, because even at that date his magnificent services to pharmacy had led everyone to consider him as perhaps the most conspicuous incoming American engaged in pure pharmacy in all its outreaches. A professor in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; a successful conductor of a drug store in the city of Philadelphia; schooled as he had been with such men as Procter, Parrish and Maisch, with the practical experience that came from personal effort under. that Nestor of American * The editor has received permission to print this letter from Prof. John Uri Lloyd, a life-long friend of the deceased. The references to the latter's life and character have prompted this action. Owing to the nearness of publication day, other matter relating to Professor Remington will be deferred for the February number.