103 



This is the last entry in the diary, and I know nothing more of his life except what 

 is told in some letters to Thaddeus W, Harris. Some extracts follow : — 



"1865. January 1. I possess : 



" $570.00 in Confederate money. 

 "$200.00 in " bonds. 



" $900 in certificates. 

 "$200.00 in provision store shares. 

 "$13.00 in bank notes. 

 "$114.90 in silver. 



"Feb. 10. The Yankees are in Barnwell Co. To-day's prices : a load of oak wood, 

 $140; a barrel of flour, $550.00; a pound of brown sugar, $12.00 ; a bushel of corn, 

 -$35.00. 



"Feb. 17. The Yankees are here, 75,000 strong. This is the last day of Columbia. 

 They at once entered the houses, got drunk, and set fire to everything. I began to move 

 •everything that could be moved into the garden ; but they broke open the trunks and 

 boxes with their swords, and followed this up with a regular and general plunder. 



" Feb. 22. The army has left. All quiet. My collection and books brought back in 

 •the house. Expenses for these days : — 1 bushel meal, $40.00; 13 Bbs. beef, $22.00; mo- 

 lasses, $6.00. 



"July 1. We still possess — 



$1,100.00 Confederate States bonds, worth $ 00 



$915.00 Confederate treasury notes " 00 



$13.00 South Carolina bank bills " 2 00 



$3.00 South Carolina state bills " 2 00 



Silver money = 74 00 



Gold 2 50 



Copper , 05 



" We must begin again at the beginning." 



This is the closing sentence. These few simple words, without any moan over the 

 loss of his all, are not a little touching — all the more so because the pathos is uninten- 

 tional — the pathos of facts, not of words. They call to mind his former record of the 

 loss of everything by shipwreck on the 10th September, 1839, followed by the entry on 

 Sept. 16th, " Beginning of a new collection." 



Zimmerman died in December, 1867. He left no children. 



His interest in science was always kept up. Nearly every month the number of 

 insects collected is reported, sometimes amounting to 3,725, and during the year to 

 11,500, In November, 1842, he sent fifty dollars to T. W. Harris to buy three Goliaths. 

 He constantly bought books both in Europe and America, and his library was valuable. 

 It was bought by the Museum of Harvard College in Cambridge, excepting some volumes 

 which were retained for his own use by Dr. J. L. Leconte, at whose instance the pur- 

 chase was made. 



His collection id also in the museum, having been bought first by Dr. Lewis, of Phil- 

 adelphia, and from him by the late R. Crotch, who sold it to the museum. A great part 

 is in Le Conte's collection, and can be recognised at once by the numbers on the pins, in 

 Zimmerman's handwriting. 



He was an unwearying worker. In 1842 he wrote to Harris that he was occupied 

 with a systematic arrangement of the Lamellicorns, and wanted Echiurus and Goliath for 

 study. In April, 1844, he writes again to Harris : — " I have almost finished my chapter 

 on Lamellicorns. 



