Oliver.] «jt)4: pec. 15, 1893. 



the Americaa Society and the New York Society of Microscopists, the 

 Biological and Microscopical Society of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia 

 Photographic Society, the Young Miennerchor, the TuruGemeinde, the 

 Ktiustlerverein, we can well see that not only was his public work of the 

 most varied character, the most useful to both his city and his country, 

 and of the most value to science, but that his associations were the widest, 

 the most congenial, and the most elevating in character. 



Amongst his intimate German friends, his literary knowledge of the 

 authors in his native tongue was well known. Ever a lover of Goethe 

 and the cynical wit of a Heine ; deep in the matchless guessings and won- 

 derful intuition of a Von Humboldt, he lived with them the ideal life that 

 always remain ideal to a kindred Teutonic mind. 



How much we must praise him when in spite of the fact that he ac- 

 quired our language (one of the most difficult) after he had gained his 

 majority, he read and reread that never-to-be-repeated series of studies of 

 tlie human passions by William Shakespeare, enjoyed the young passionate 

 and conscienceless words and thoughts of Byron, laughed and sighed 

 with Burns, walked with Dickens, and followed our own poet laureate, 

 Longfellow. 



These associations, as well as those higher correlated ones of music, 

 painting and sculpture, formed both in public life by active membership in 

 various local literary and physical-culture societies, and in the pi'ivacy of 

 home with its small, though well-selected collection of works of arts, to 

 which he brought many of his literary and artistic friends, evidence not 

 only his exceptional taste in these the pleasures of higher mental life, but 

 exhibit his acumen and critical judgment in their enjoyment. 



After a lingering and extremely sad illness he died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., on the 28th day of March, 1888. 



How can we better do in this meagre sketch than repeat the words of 

 the resolution passed by those nearest and dearest to him in his daily work, 

 his workmen for the last quarter of a century. 



Resolved, That we give public expression to our regard for the memory of the late 

 Joseph Zentmayer, as a man whose benevolence, good nature, modesty and friendly dis- 

 position endeared him to us through many years of social intimacy; as a workman 

 whose originality, thorough practical skill and energy has made his name known 

 throughout the scientific world ; as an employer whose sense of justice and equity 

 equaled his superior natural abilities ; as a friend upon whose judicious counsel we 

 could always rely ; and that, in our memories, he shall ever be an example of what 

 constitutes a good man." 



Jusium et ienacem propositi virum. 



