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pp. 87-112, pis. 10-13. 

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Sci. Am. Suppl., vol. xlvii, 1899, p. 19313. 

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Proc, vol. xllx, 1900, p. 187. 

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MEMOIR OF RALPH STOCKMAN TARR 

 BY J. B. WOODWORTH 



Prof. Ralph Stockman Tarr was born in Gloucester^ Massachusetts, 

 January 15, 1864, the son of Silas Tarr, a contractor, and his wife, Abi- 

 gail Tarr, nee Saunders. He died suddenly, March 21, 1912, at Ithaca, 

 New York, where his grave may be seen. 



Tarr's boyhood was spent in Gloucester and about Cape Ann, the most 

 typical portion of the New England rock-bound coast, environed with 

 granite quarries ashore and a seaport teeming witli marine life. By this 

 environment and a readily understood chain of human influences, the 

 chief links in which were Hyatt and Shaler, Tarr was led along wit li 

 ever-increasing enthusiasm into the life-path of the naturalist. 



The youth whose life we are to sketch went through the public schools 

 of his native town, graduating from the local high school in L881. In 

 the summer of that year he entered the school of /oology, held at Salem, 

 and in the following autumn was enrolled at Harvard I'lmcrsitv as a 



