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special student in the Lawrence Scientific School, evidently with the in- 

 tention of becoming a zoologist. In 1882 he returned to Annisquam, 

 near Gloucester, to act as an assistant to Professor Hyatt in the zoologi- 

 cal laboratory at that place, in connection with which institution he for 

 about two years was engaged principally in collecting and dredging ma- 

 rine animals in Ipswich Bay. During this time, in 1883, he joined the 

 IT. S. Fish Commission, under Dr. Spencer F. Baird, and took part in 

 deep-sea exploration south of New England on the steamers Fishhawh 

 and Albatross. In the winter of 1884 he was an assistant in the division 

 of invertebrate zoology of the TJ. S. Xational Museum in Washington. 

 In a complete bibliography of his writings there will be found lists of 

 zoological specimens published at this time, as well as articles of a scien- 

 tific character furnished to the public press. 



Hyatt had apparently so far been the chief counselor of Tarr, the stu- 

 dent of zoology. At Harvard Tarr had met Shaler. 1 In the fall of 1888 

 Tarr returned to Harvard and began the study of geology under Shaler, 

 of physical geography under Davis, and later of petrography under Wolff, 

 with lectures on economic geology by J. D. Whitney. 



At Harvard Tarr was perhaps the most brilliant and versatile member 

 of a group of students drawn to the department of geology by the unique 

 personality of Shaler. Penrose was about completing his academic 

 studies when Tarr came. The group to which Tarr attached himself 

 comprised Charles Livy Whittle, who shared his college room in Holyoke, 

 14, later a member of the U. S. Geological Survey, and now a mining 

 geologist of Boston; Collier Cobb, now professor of geology at the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina; Dr. George Edgar Ladd, sometime director 

 of the Eolla School of Mines; Dr. August F. Foerste, a Fellow of this 

 Society; Prof. E. E. Dodge, and the writer. There were other associates 

 outside of the geological circle. Some of those inside this circle knew 

 him before I made his acquaintance and were his intimates to a greater 

 degree. To me Tarr was the most interesting, congenial, and sympa- 

 thetic of my college friends. He invited me to his parents' home at 

 Gloucester, and between us there sprang up a friendship based upon 

 good-will and an interest in our common subject of study that led when 

 Tarr left Cambridge to a correspondence which for years on his part 

 constitutes so faithful an account of life as a geologist and college pro- 

 fessor that it seems appropriate in this memorial to allow abstracts from 

 his letters to tell that story of his noble persistence and fruitful endeavor. 



!Tarr spent the academic years 1881-1882, 1884-1885, 1886-1880, 1890 1892 at Har- 

 vard. 



