Charles Frederick Harlt. Ill 



New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Wm. Brewster. 



New York, A. K. Fisher. 



Oswego, N. Y., J. Alden Loring. 



Lockport, N. Y., J. L. Davidson. 



All obtained between December 14th and February. 1 

 have not yet seen any notice of its appearance in Ontario 

 during the present winter, but doubtless it has been there 

 also. At all events the foregoing records are sufficient to 

 prove that we have not been visited by a few stragglers 

 only, but that there has been a widespread migration, 

 extending much farther to the east than any point at which 

 it had been observed in former years. The specimen 

 examined was in excellent condition, plump and fat, the 

 stomach being filled with vegetable matter. 



Charles Frederick Hartt. l 



By G. F. Matthew. 2 



It is now nearly twelve years since, to the surprise and 

 sorrow of his friends, news came from Brazil of the sudden 

 and untimely death of Prof. Charles Frederick Hartt ; cut 

 off in the midst of his noble work of making known to the 

 world the Natural History and resources of the great Em- 

 pire of Brazil. 



He died in middle age with all the enthusiasm of youth 

 upon him, with his life work giving promise of a glorious 

 future. When we think of what he might have accom- 



1 Read before the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 5th 

 Nov. 1889. 



2 In the preparation of this paper I have quoted freely and ver- 

 batim from a sketch of the life of Professor Hartt written by Mr. 

 G. V. Hay, and from the very excellent sketch prepared by Mr. 

 Richard Rathbun, one of Prof. Hartt's assistants in Brazil. The 

 present sketch is fuller, for his early life and a few incidents that 

 have transpired since his death have been added. 



