Lyman.] J-*^-^ [May 18, 



no matter what their station in Hfe, with equal courtesy, and a clear, 

 sound judgment, which guarded him from the imposition of the 

 fraudulent or the flattery of the interested. To use the expression 

 of one who knew him long and well, Mr. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., 

 " the leading traits of his private character were honor and loyalty." 

 His charities were unostentatious, but large and constant. One of 

 his old friends writes me that he personally knows of several whom 

 Mr. Keim regularly assisted, and who depended on this assistance 

 for much of the comfort of their lives. 



While his acquaintances were numbered by thousands, his inti- 

 mates were few. Although affable and ready of access, it was not 

 at all easy to understand his real nature, nor to approach his inner 

 personality. A peculiar dry humor, an odd candor of expression, 

 foiled the importunate and disarmed the aggressive. Under the 

 appearance of a certain levity of language and manner he baffled 

 those who attempted to transgress the lines which he had drawn 

 around his intimate life. The impression thus created was so differ- 

 ent from that usually expected from a man bearing such heavy bur- 

 dens of responsibility, that it always at first puzzled, if it did not 

 even disappoint, those who knew him but slightly. Behind this out- 

 ward habit of encounter, however, was a keen, penetrating judg- 

 ment and a warm, sympathetic nature, fully recognized and appreci- 

 ated by those who understood the thoroughness of his work and the 

 spirit of his actions. By his death our city lost a distinguished 

 and worthy citizen, his friends one always dear to them, and this 

 Society an estimable and interested member. 



Some New Red Horizons. 



By Benjamin Smith Lyman. 



(Read before the American PhilosopJdcal Society, May IS, IS94.) 



It seems to be worth while to give, at least roughly and in part conjec- 

 turally, some idea of the relative geological position of the different hori- 

 zons from which fossils have been reported in the so-called American New 

 Red of tlie eastern part of the United States ; for it will thereby be seen 

 how completely and naturally the recently discovered, unexpectedly 

 great, and consequently perhaps not readily accepted, thickness of the 

 New Red in Montgomery county, Pa., harmonizes with all the hitherto 



