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Not content with personal devotion to research, Hyatt always felt it 

 a duty to communicate as far as possible to other students and teach- 

 ers the knowledge he had gained, which might render them capable 

 not only of doing better educational work, but of themselves entering 

 the ranks of the little army of investigators. This led him to make 

 cruises in a small vessel with a crew of selected students, even as far east 

 as the maritime provinces of Canada, and to the establishment at 

 Annisquam of a summer laboratory for the study of marine life by 

 teachers and students of zoology. Tliis has now been superseded by 

 more extensive and subsidized summer schools, called for by the great 

 increase of interest in such studies, but, for some years, with no official 

 support or collegiate subvention, Annisquam led the way. Similarly, 

 aided by an association of friends of science, largely inspired by him- 

 self, Hyatt was instrumental in starting the Teacher's School of Science 

 at the rooms of the Boston Society of Natural History, contributing 

 by supervision, lectures and the preparation of science primers a great 

 part of the elements of its success. 



Hyatt was one of the originators and the first President of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Naturalists, an association of professional workers in 

 zoology and botany which meets annually for exchange of ideas and 

 methods and the promotion of acquaintance and good-will among its 

 members. His labors for the promotion of science and for thor- 

 ough research were universally appreciated among his fellow-workers, 

 though not of the sort which leads to personal advertisement or miscella- 

 neous popularity. Scientific men everywhere recognized his merit. He 

 was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 at Boston in 1869, In 1875 he became a member of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. Brown University in 1898 gave him the degree 

 of LL.D. and he was a correspondent of many foreign learned societies. 



In the line of research Hyatt devoted his attention chiefly to inver- 

 tebrate animals. Among his early papers was a contribution to the 

 report on an expedition in which Verrill and others joined for the ex- 

 ploration of the Island of Anticosti, which, wrapped in fogs and beaten 

 by tempestuous surges, had been almost untrodden by scientific men. 

 Hyatt reported on certain remarkable fossils of the paleozoic rocks of 

 the island. A memoir on some fresh-water polyzoa, illustrated by 

 exquisite drawings and characterized by thoroughness and finish on its 

 scientific side, attracted much attention. A paper on the evolutionary 

 progress, illustrated by the Tertiary forms of Planorlis at Steinheim, 

 as they occur in successive lake beds at that well-known German locality, 

 pointed to the principles to the elucidation of which a large part of his 

 scientific career was devoted. A memoir on the commercial sponges of 

 North America received high encomiums from foreign naturalists as a 

 model treatise on a particularly difficult subject. A very suggestive 



