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Mr. Band, theMicmac missionary, on his round visited Wolf- 

 ville and taught him something of the Indian dialects. 



Hartt's passion for Nature Science was not a late growth, 

 for at the age of ten he showed a decided predeliction for 

 Natural History and as he grew up took great delight 

 in assisting Prof. Chipman of Acadia College in preparing 

 and arranging his specimens. With the professor's aid and 

 encouragement he made great progress in acquiring a 

 knowledge of Mineralogy which, owing to the abundance 

 of trap-minerals (zeolites &c.) in the vicinity, was a favour- 

 ite study of the Professor of Acadia College and his pupils. 

 Fortunately Hartt was not with Prof. Chipman when the 

 latter made the trip by boat to the trap-cliffs of Blomidon, 

 which cost him his life. 



Hartt's versatility was shown in his talent for drawing, 

 and for the acquisition of languages, and we are told that he 

 became instructor in drawing in Acadia College when quite 

 a youth. While at college he learned the elements of Portu- 

 guese from a shoemaker of the village, and this acquisition 

 no doubt proved useful to him when he visited Brazil; he 

 attained afterward such proficiency in this language that 

 he lectured with great success to cultivated audiences in 

 Bio 'Janeiro. His skill as a draftsman and his command 

 of language always drew to his lectures interested hearers. 



Alread}-, while occupied with his college studies, he en- 

 tered with zeal into the work of geological investigation. 

 He explored the parts of Nova Scotia in the vicinity of the 

 Annapolis Valley and the Basin of Minas, traversing the 

 country on foot, and making large collections of specimens 

 whenever the opportunity was afforded him. It was his 

 intelligent eye and busy hands that selected in the Gaspe- 

 reaux Valley the material which enabled Sir Wm. Dawson 

 to establish the genus Aneamites on a remarkable fern of 

 the Lower Carboniferous period, which, before that had been 

 confounded with Cyclopteris. Many of the specimens of 

 minerals and fossils which Hartt collected in those days, are 

 to be found in the Museum of the Natural History Society 

 at St. John, in the Peter Bedpath Museum of McCrill Uni- 



