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at the courses of that model of scientific lecturers, Professor Jeffries 

 Wyraan. 



He was graduated with high honors under Professor Agassiz in 1862. 

 The Civil War was then raging, and the young patriot, having already 

 received the elements of military training, enlisted, though naturally not 

 without opposition from his family in Maryland, and was active in raising 

 a company in Cambridge. He received a commission in 1862 as a lieu- 

 tenant, but soon rose to the rank of captain in the Forty-seventh Mas- 

 sachusetts Regiment, serving as aide-de-camp nine months, for the most 

 part in New Orleans. 



After being mustered out of the army he lived in Boston some time 

 during 1865-66, and it was then, and afterwards in Salem, that we came 

 to know him still more intimately than at Cambridge, as we were at 

 times room-mates. Over our friendship, our mutual love and respect, a 

 cloud never passed. The purity and unaffected goodness, nobility of 

 character, sturdy honesty and reliability as a friend, were as conspicuous 

 then as in his last years. His filial devotion was marked, and in later 

 life the kindness and chivalric courtesy, acts of kind-heartedness and 

 thoughtfulness which in some instances it gave him some trouble to per- 

 form, to an elderly lady as well as to other friends in need, will be 

 treasured up in our memory. Of his delightful domestic life, the warm- 

 heartedness of his welcome to his hospitable home, his friends will ever 

 retain the most agreeable recollections. 



In the foundation and organization of scientific and educational enter- 

 prises, societies, journals, and museums, Hyatt always lent a willing hand. 

 Gifted with a fair amount of executive ability, with clear, persuasive 

 powers of expression, a ready debater, often a powerful speaker, and 

 excellent in planning, besides having a somewhat wide knowledge of 

 men, he was most useful in promoting such undertakings. 



In 1867 he, with three other pupils of Agassiz, became one of the 

 curators of the Essex Institute, and in 1869 he took an active and most 

 useful part in the foundation of the Peabody Academy of Science at 

 Salem, Mass., where he served as one of the curators. 



As Custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History from 1870 to 

 the end of his life, he planned an arrangement of the museum in accord- 

 ance, so far as was possible, witli the phylogeny of the animal kingdom, 

 bogiiining with tlie Protozoa. He was one of the two founders of the 

 Teachers' School of Science, becoming its manager, and In this way 

 accomplislied a vast amount of good in training the teachers of Boston 

 and its vicinity in the elements of natural history. Wliilc living in Salem 



