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Rh After five years of independent work in New York, during which time he made drawings for various publishing houses, he renewed his contract with the Harpers in 1881. The same year he went to Paris, where he lived for many years. He is well known for his excellent work "iii black and white for book and magazine illustration. He had ex- hibited in Paris, Munich, and various cities of the United States, and was a member of the Water-color society and various other art associations. His works in oil include " Clearing Up" and " Caught Napping" (18T5); "Reconnoitring" (1876); "Re- buke " (1877) ; " September Morning " (1879) : " < ld Life Boat " (1880) ; " Coast of Normandy " (1882) : "In a Garden" (1883); "Mussel Fisherwoman " and " Flats at Villerville " (1884) ; " Sunday " (1885); "English Garden" and "Fishermen of Villerville" '(1886); "Washed Ashore" (1887), which gained honorable mention at the salon of 1887 and the Temple gold medal at the academy, Philadelphia, in 1888 ; and " Tide coming In " {1888). Among his water-colors are " Gathering Wood" and "Close of Day" (1877); "At the Ferry" (1878); and "Spanish Barber."

REINKE, Samuel, Moravian bishop, b. in Lititz, Pa., 12 Aug., 1791 ; d. in Bethlehem, Pa,, 21 Jan., 1875. He was one of the first three gradu- ates of the American-Moravian theological semi- nary. After serving as pastor of various churches, hi- was consecrated to the episcopacy in 1858. Two years later he became blind, and was obliged to retire from active service. An operation partially restored his sight, after which he frequently preached and ordained ministers. His last official act, when he was seventy-nine years old, was to assist in the consecration of his son to the episco- pacy. He was a powerful and original preacher. Sis son, Amadeus Abraham, Moravian bishop, b. in Lancaster, Pa., 11 March, 1822; d. in Herrn- hut, Germany, 12 Aug., 1889. He was graduated at Bethlehem, Pa., went as a missionary to the West Indies, and subsequently engaged in a mis- sionary exploratory tour on the Mosquito coast. On his return to the United States he was pastor successively of the churches at Graceham. Mil., at New Dorp, Staten island, in Philadelphia, and in Xew York city, where he resided for twenty years. He was consecrated to the episcopacy in 1870.

REIS, Francisco Sotero dos (ri-ees), Brazilian journalist, b. in Maranhao, 22 April, 1800: d. there, 1U Jan., 1871. He studied philosophy and rhetoric in the monastery of Our Lady of Carmo, was ap- pointed professor of Latin, and was director of the orphan asylum of Santa Thereza from 1804 till 1870. lie edited the " Argos da Lei " and ' Maran- hense" (1825); the " Constitutional'' (1831); the Investigador de Maranhao" (1836); the "Re- vista" (1840); the " Observador " (1854): and in 1856 obtained the editorship of the official paper I'ulilicador Maranhense." In 1861 he abandoned his journalistic career. He published " Postillas de grammatica geral applicada a lingua Purtu- gue/.a pela analyse dos elassicos" (Rio Janeiro, 1862); "Grammatica Portugueza accommodada aos principios geraes da palavra seguidos da ini- mediata applicacao practk-a" (1866); "Os com- mentaries de Caius Julius Cesar," translated into Portuguese (1869) ; and " Curso de Litteratura Por- tugueza e Brazileira" (1870).

RELF, Samuel, journalist, b. in Virginia, 22 March, 1776; d. there, 14 Feb., 1823. He was brought to Philadelphia, when a child, by his mother, and early became connected with the "National Gazette," of which he was for many years the editor and its owner until, in 1819, he became financially involved through friends. His writings were highly esteemed. He was the au- thor of a novel entitled "Infidelity, or the Vic- tims of Sentiment" (Philadelphia, 1797).

REMESAL, Antonio de (ray-may-sal), Spanish clergyman, b. in Alariz, Galicia, in 1570 : d. in Madrid in 1639. He studied in the University of Salamanca, was graduated as doctor of divinity, and united with the Dominicans. In 1613 he was elected visitor of the missions of Central America, and during his sojourn in the country in 1613-'17 collected the materials for his " Historia de las provincias de Chiapa y Guatemala " (Madrid, 1619). He also published purely ecclesiastical works.

REMINGTON, Joseph Price, pharmacist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 26 March. 1847. He was educated in private schools and academies in Phila- delphia, and graduated at the Philadelphia college of pharmacy in 1866. In 1874 he succeeded to the professorship of the theory and practice of phar- macy in the Philadelphia college, which chair he has since held, and in 1877 he became director of the pharmaceutical laboratory. Prof. Remington has invented various appliances that have had an extended use, among which are a still, a pill-com- pressor, and an apparatus for percolation. He was first vice-president of the committee of revision in 1880 of the "U. S. Pharmacopoeia," and had the preparation of several classes of compounds for that book under his immediate supervision. The honorary degree of master in pharmacy was con- ferred o"u him by the Philadelphia college, and in 1880 he was elected the first president of the coun- cil of the American pharmaceutical association, which office he held for six years. Besides being a fellow of the Chemical, Linnsean. and Pharma- ceutical societies of London, he is active in the national associations in the United States, and is an honorary member of many of the state phar- maceutical associations. He has been a volumi- nous writer on all subjects pertaining to the sci- entific advancement of pharmacy, as well as a flu- ent, a forcible, and interesting speaker. Pruf. Remington is pharmaceutical editor of the " U. S. Etispensatory" (Philadelphia, 1883), and is the au- thor of "The Practice of Pharmacy" (1880). two standard authorities.

'''REMINGTON. Philo,''' inventor, b. in Litchfield, N. Y., 31 Oct., 1816. His father. Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861), as a boy obtained from a country blacksmith the privilege of using his forge on rainy days and winter evenings, and with such tools and appliances as his own ingenuity suggested produced a gun. It proved so satisfactory that he was encouraged to continue, and soon established his own forge, with trip-hammer and lathe, from which has developed the great factory now known as the Remington armory. Philo was educated at common schools and at C'azenovia seminary, after which he entered the factory. Inheriting" his father's mechanical genius, he was most carefully trained in the use of every tool that is employed in the manufacture of fire-arms, and in time became mechanical superintendent of the factory. With his brothers, Samuel and Eliphalet, the firm of E. Remington and Sons was established, and for upward of twenty-five years he continued in charge of the mechanical department. In the course of this experience his firm probably manufactured a greater variety of fire-arms than any other like establishment, and their arms have a high reputation. The breech - loading rifle that bears the name of Remington, of which millions have been made and sold, is the best known of the guns that are made under their supervision.