. MEMOIR OF ALPHEUS HYATT 509 



As early as 1870 he set on foot a movement which culminated in the 

 founding of the Teachers' School of Science, a school free to all teachers, 

 where work with specimens and direct contact with nature in field and 

 laboratory should prepare them for the best work in the schools. Pro- 

 fessor Hj^att was at the head of this school until his death, and under 

 his wise management, and, above all, his strong personal influence, it 

 has achieved a substantial success and become an important adjunct of 

 the normal schools of eastern Massachusetts. The admiration and afiec- 

 tion felt for him by the multitude of teachers who came under his in- 

 fluence was boundless. One of them has said : 



"The wealth of his mind, tlie simplicity of his nature, the kindness and patience 

 of his great heart placed him without a peer in the hearts of his pupils." 



Another work which he did for teachers was to maintain at Annisquam, 

 Massachusetts, during the summer months of several years a seaside 

 laborator}^ where as many as could be accommodated might come for 

 special work. In connection with this laboratory he conducted dredging 

 expeditions along the eastern coast of New England. Such out-of-door 

 work was always congenial to him, and in 1885 he went as far north as 

 the strait of Belle Isle, doing important geological work on the west coast 

 of Newfoundland, and thus su})plementing earlier work by himself and 

 others on the island of Anticosti. The Annisquam laboratory, it may 

 be added, prepared the way for the biological laboratory at Woods Hole. 



In his beautiful tribute to Professor Hyatt's life and work, Professor 

 A. S. Packard well sa3^s that 



"Whether we regard him as a man, a patriot, a fellow-student, a scientific in- 

 vestigator, an organizer of societies, of museums, or of methods of science teaching, 

 his many sided life was a rare one. He was a promoter of scientific enterprises, 

 one of the founders of a new school in the philosophy of biology, a master in pale- 

 on tological methods, and endowed with rare powers of mental absorption and con- 

 centration and an unusual capacity for sound generalization." 



Those who were so fortunate as to know Professor Hyatt personally 

 will remember him as a man of sunny disposition and a beautiful cor- 

 dialit}" of manner. His kindness and consideration toward his pupils 

 were noteworthy. He was one of the most fair minded of men, unusu- 

 ally lacking in professional jealousy and broadly tolerant of the opinions 

 of others. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



On Beatricea. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 1865, p. 19. 



Remarks on the Beatricepe, a new division of MolUisca. Amer. Jour. Sci., series 2, 



vol. 39, 1865, pp. 261-266. 

 On the general structure of the shells of Cephalopoda. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 10, 1865, p. 24. 



