40 Canadian Record vf Science. 



The scientific career of Prof. Chas. Fred. Hartt, teacher 

 and geologist, although extending over a period of less 

 than a score of years, was one of brilliant achievement. 

 The work of his riper years- was confined to the States 

 and Brazil, yet he was a Canadian by birth and education. 

 Born at Fredericton, N.B., he was graduated from Acadia 

 College in 1860, and pursued a course under Prof. Agassiz 

 at Cambridge, Mass., extending over four years. He 

 accompanied Agassiz in his expedition to Brazil ; and 

 after he was appointed to the chair of geology in Cornell 

 University, he made several journeys thither accompanied 

 by some of his students. The results were embodied in a 

 comprehensive work entitled " The Geology and Physical 

 G-eography of Brazil," published in 1870. He was after- 

 wards appointed Chief of the Geological Commission, to 

 make a. survey of the vast empire of Brazil. With a 

 corps of talented assistants he pursued this work in the 

 face of great difficulties until he fell a victim to yellow 

 fever, in 1878, at Eio Janeiro. 



Hartt found time amid the absorbing labors of the 

 Commission to study the language and traditions of the 

 early Indians of Brazil, and had prepared a grammar 

 and dictionary of their language. His genius, coupled 

 with an extraordinary aptitude for linguistic studies, 

 would have made him one of the foremost ethnologists of 

 the age ; and there is little doubt that inclination and 

 sympathy had long been leading him to this broader and 

 more fascinating field of research. 



7. — " Studies on Cambrian Faunas, No. 8. The Upper 

 Cambrian Fauna of Mount Stephen, B.C. The Trilo- 

 bites and Worms." By G. F. Matthew, D.Sc, LL.D. 



This paper deals with the fauna of Mt. Stephen, British 

 Columbia, Canada, which fauna is remarkable for the 

 excellent preservation of the organic remains composing 

 it. The author is able to correlate its genera more closely 

 with European forms than has hitherto been done, and 



