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Physical Geography of Brazil " has been already alluded to. The others, 

 embracing articles and reports published in various scientific journals, 

 and the proceedings of scientific societies in Canada, the United States, 

 and Brazil, are too numerous to be recapitulated here. It will be sulli- 

 cicnt to indicate a few to show their general scope : Various articles on 

 the geology and palœontology of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ; the 

 same of Brazil ; articles descriptive of the pottery and other aniiquities, 

 as well as of the ornaments and myths of the Indians of Brazil ; '' Evo- 

 lution in Ornament," " Amazonian Tortoise Myths," " Notes on the 

 Manufacture of Pottery among Savage* Paces," etc., to which may be 

 added, various articles published since his death by his assistants, aiid by 

 others directly and indirectly connected with the commission. 



Of his unpublished works, some relate to the geological and archa3- 

 ological work in connection with the Brazilian Commission ; but by far 

 the most important is his grammar and dictionary of the Tupi Indian 

 dialects, which by the consent of Mrs. Hartt was deposited in the 

 national museum at Pio. In addition to this, there are two other pub- 

 lications ready for the press : Brazilian Anliquities, of about 500 pages, 

 4to, and Mythology of Brazilian Indians,. oi about 300 pages, 4to. The 

 lack of a competent editor, so far, and the wants of means, have prevented 

 their publication, but it is hoped that in the near future some generous 

 patron of science or some antiquarian society, recognizing the value of 

 the work from an ethnological point of view, may take the matter up 

 and give to the world the result of Hartt's original and patient researches. 

 Most of his MSS. are in the form of slip notes, but so methodical was he 

 that he considered the actual writing as the least part of the preparation 

 of his projected works. For him the work was essentially done when 

 the investigation and reading that he considered necessary was ended 

 and the results gathered in a pile of slip notes. 



So engrossing had these ethnological studies become to Hartt, that 

 it is not improbable, had he lived, he would have given his entire atten- 

 tion to South American antiquities.^ He was a pioneer in this special 



field, and the results that he accomplished are of great value to future 

 students. 



I cannot close this sketch without a reference to the fact that one 



of Hartt's companions, Mr. Orville A. Derby, desirous of saving to 



science a part of the fruit of so much labour that cost so precious a life, 



decided to remain in Brazil and devote himself to this object. He was 



given control by the government over the material of the extinct Com- 



' This stutcnicnt is made on the autliority of Dr. .7. C. Hnwiner and Mr. Richard 

 Hathbun. 



