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plished, had his life been spared, we cannot repress a feel- 

 ing of regret at the loss which science has sustained in the 

 death of this talented and devoted man. 



Prof. Hartt was the eldest son of the late Jarvis William 

 and Prudence (Brown) Hartt and was born at Fredericton, 

 New Brunswick, August 23, 1840. 



His father, Jarvis Hartt, on the completion of his educa- 

 tion was appointed Principal of the Baptist Educational 

 Seminary in Fredericton. He was noted for his earnest 

 character and quiet devotion to educational work, and 

 these qualities no doubt helped to mould the character of 

 his son, and implant in him those habits of intense and 

 continous application which he possessed. And to the 

 fine temperament and high ideals of his mother we may 

 believe that Prof. Hartt was largely indebted for the 

 inspiration which carried him along in the study of 

 Nature. Mrs. Hartt was educated at Cambridge, Mass., 

 and came to Fredericton to take charge of one of the de- 

 partments of the seminary where her future husband was 

 teaching. Her intellectual training enabled her to appre- 

 ciate her son's tastes, and in her he found a sympathetic 

 and ready listener, when as school-boy and student he pro- 

 pounded to her his schemes for future study and work. 

 Through her friends he found himself at home in later years 

 in Cambridge, and frequently wrote to her of his plans and 

 prospects. 



Hartt's early education was carried on under the direct 

 supervision of his father, who, for a long time was identified 

 with the educational interests of Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick. He studied at Horton Academy in Wolfville 

 N.S. where his father was at the time professor, and after- 

 ward at Acadia College in the same town. In 1860 he gra- 

 duated from the college with honor, receiving the degree of 

 Bachelor of Arts, and later that of Master of Arts. 



When still a boy, Hartt developed a strong taste for phi- 

 lology, and with the aid of transient people of the vil- 

 lage near his home, would make vocabularies of Gaelic and 

 Italian ; and it was a day to be remembered by him when 



