Joseph P. Remington's Gavel

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Joseph P. Remington

Wooden gavel with metal presentation plate inscribed, "Presented to Prof. Joseph Remington by the International Congress of Chemistry, New York, Sept. 6th, 1912."

1912-09-06

New York (Ny.)

1912

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Saint Joseph's University

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Joseph Price Remington (1847-1918), Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, class of 1866. In 1874, Remington became the professor of the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy and, in 1877, director of the pharmaceutical laboratory. Professor Remington was the first vice president of the United States Pharmacopeia revision committee and supervised the preparation of several class compounds for the book. In 1880, the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy conferred an honorary Master in Pharmacy degree to Remington. He was elected the first president of the Council of the American Pharmaceutical Association, an office he held for six years. In 1893, Remington became the Dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, a position he retained until he died in 1918. Professor Remington was the author of "The Practice of Pharmacy" (1886), a book still used today by students and scholars.