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which had inaugurated the Survey was gone, and further 

 investigation of the physical structure of Brazil with 

 governmental aid is left to the enterprise of another 

 generation. 



Since Professor Hartt's death, two volumes of the 

 Archives of the National Museum of Brazil have been pub- 

 lished, which testify to the extent of his labors. The first 

 (ISTo. VI.) contains an account of the Archaeology and Eth- 

 nology of the tribes of the Amazonas, based on observations 

 made by Prof. Hartt and his assistants on the shell-heaps, 

 the cemeteries and the artificial mounds of that region, and 

 contains descriptions and figures of the articles found in 

 these repositories of the relics of its pre-historic people. It 

 contains also an essay on the origin of art, and the evolu- 

 tion of ornamentation as exhibited by their pottery &c. ; as 

 well as an account of certain tribes of the region and their 

 mythology. 



In the remainder of the volume the result of Prof. Hartt's 

 work stands out on many a page, especially in the very in- 

 teresting memoir by Dr. Ladislaus Netto on the Archaeology 

 of Brazil. The material collected under Prof. Hartt's di- 

 rection at the island of Marajo and at Maraca, are largely 

 used by Dr. Netto in illustrating his memoir. 



The succeeding volume of the Annals of the Museum 

 (No. VII.) is devoted to a description of the Cretaceous 

 Mollusca of Brazil by Dr. C. A. White of the geological sur- 

 vey of the United States. This voluminous memoir, pub- 

 lished in Portuguese and English, is also based on the ma- 

 terial collected under Prof. Hartt, when in charge of the 

 geological survey of Brazil. 



Several years after his death, the remains of this devoted 

 man were removed from Brazil to Buffalo, N. Y., the home 

 of his widow, where they now lie in a cemetry on the shore 

 of Lake Erie. 



Since his death, a tablet to his memory has been placed 

 in the library of Acadia College (his ' ' alma mater "). This 

 tablet was set up by his classmates in commemoration of 

 his great services to Science. On the unveiling of the monu- 



