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he graduated from the College -with high honors, receiving the de- 

 gree of Bachelor of Arts, and later that of Master of Arts. In 1869 

 he was married to Miss Lucy Lynde of Buffalo, N. Y., by whom he 

 had two children, a son and a daughter. They all survive him. 



At the age of ten, Hartt began to show a decided taste for natural 

 history studies, in which he was aided and encouraged by his teacher, 

 Prof. Cheeseman. His talent for drawing and for the acquisition of lan- 

 guage showed itself at an equally early period, and we are told that 

 he became an instructor of drawing at Acadia College when a mere 

 boy. His liking for natural history was, however, the stronger, and 

 he entered with great zeal into the work of geological investigation. 

 Before he left college he had already explored a large portion of 

 Nova Scotia, which province he traversed from one end to the other 

 on foot. In all his expeditions he made large collections of speci- 

 mens, whenever there was opportunity. His studies always took the 

 character of independent, original investigations, and their great value 

 has served to identify him prominently with the history of Acadian 

 geology. 



In 1860 he removed with his father to St. John, N, B., for the pur- 

 pose of organizing with him a college high school; but much of 

 young Hartt's time was at once devoted to the exploration of the 

 rocks in the vicinity of St. John. It was these researches that first 

 made him widely known to the scientific world. His discovery 

 of the remains of fossil insects in the Devonian shales of St. John 

 attracted the attention of Prof. Agassiz, and helped to decide the fu- 

 ture course of the young provincial geologist. Accepting an invita- 

 tion from Prof. Agassiz to become a student at the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, he went, in 1861, to Cambridge, where he spent 

 the greater part of the next four years. Here he diligently improved 

 the great opportunities afforded for study and original research, and 

 made rapid progress. The great temptation to devote himself to the 

 investigation of the immense stores of undescribed material con- 

 tained in the Museum, did not entirely withdraw his attention from 

 the study of the geology of his native land, his vacations being 

 mostly spent in continuing the explorations already begun in the 

 Provinces. 



Before he went to St. John in 1860, the geology of southern New 

 Brunswick was very imperfectly known, and it was about this time 

 that careful researches were begun. Hartt carried on his work, partly 

 alone, and partly in connection with the Survey of southern New 



