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retirement was a great loss to the University, the more so since 

 there is reason to believe that possibly it might have been avoided. 



Prof. Dr. Genth was everywhere recognized by his scientific 

 associates as a man of rare talent. He was elected a member of 

 the American Philosophical Society in January, 1854; he was one 

 of the corporate members of the American Chemical Society ; was 

 elected a vice-president of this Society in 1876 and president in 

 1880 ; in 1872 he was elected a member of the National Academy 

 of Sciences, and in 1875 a Fellow of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences in Boston. The American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science paid him, in 1888, the high compliment 

 of election as one of the three Honorary Fellows of the Associa- 

 tion. 



Dr. Genth's personality was most agreeable. He was cordial to 

 his friends and associates, valued highly their society and was ever 

 ready to give them any assistance he could render out of the store- 

 house of his knowledge. He was twice married, first in Europe, in 

 1847, t0 Karolina Jaeger, the daughter of the Librarian of the 

 University of Marburg, by whom he had three children — two sons 

 and a daughter — all of whom are yet living. In 1852, he married 

 Minna Paulina Fischer, whom he met in Cumberland, Md.; four 

 daughters and five sons being the issue of this second marriage. 

 Of these four daughters and one son are still living. 



Dr. Genth was rather corpulent in his habit, and in his later 

 years went about with some difficulty, being troubled considerably 

 with asthma. He died at his home in Philadelphia on the 2d 

 of February, 1893, from an attack of pneumonia, being in his 

 seventy- third year. 



December 6, igoi. George F. Barker. 



