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showing the same respect for those laboring under him 

 as for his equals. His deep sense of right caused him to 

 weigh the claims of others generally more fairly than 

 his own, and to his own loss. He was gifted to a won- 

 derful degree with an original and inventive mind ; while 

 his early training laid a firm foundation for a life of great 

 usefulness. Thus richly endowed he had started upon a 

 most enviable career, and gave promise of attaining the 

 highest eminence. His tastes were varied, leading him 

 into natural science, language, art, and music, in all of 

 which he accomplished original work of the highest 

 grade. He loved study, and always entered with his 

 whole soul into the investigation of whatever subject 

 interested him. He was filled with a noble ambition and 

 actuated by the purest purposes, and thus ever sought to 

 advance the interests of science without thought of per- 

 sonal gain. In his short life he accomplished much, but 

 so great was his confidence in the future, that he with- 

 held the publication of many of his discoveries until 

 they should be further developed and perfected, little 

 expecting so sudden a termination of his work. 



Although linguistic studies, as well as art and music, 

 were to him favorite subjects of investigation, they were 

 generally treated from a scientific stand-point, and were 

 made subordinate to the more special field of inquiry, 

 geology, to which he early became enthusiastically 

 devoted. With an ever increasing love for scientific 

 research, which finally came to absorb his whole atten- 

 tion, he died a martyr to science. Eminently successful 

 as a teacher, his students shared his deep enthusiasm, 

 and his influence upon science will long be felt through 

 the labors of those who enjoyed the advantages of his 

 careful training. 



Prof Hartt was the oldest son of the late Jarvis Wil- 

 liam and Prudence (Brown) Hartt, and was born at Fred- 

 ericton, New Brunswick, August 23, 1840; he died at 

 Rio de Janeiro, March 18, 1878. His last illness was of 

 scared}^ more than forty-eight hours duration ; his death 

 was sudden, and until the end, entirely unlooked for even by 



