Charles Frederick Hartt. 
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SUPPLEMENT. 
Dr. J. C. Branner, Director of the Geological Survey of 
Arkansas, has recently written an account of Prof. Hartt in 
Brazil. This appeared in the Cornell Magazine,’^ Ithaca, 
N. Y., February 1890, and as it gives that authoFs impression 
of the life and work of Prof. Hartt, I have made extracts from 
the article, seeing that it gives an opinion of his character and 
achievements formed by one who was an intimate associate in 
his later years. 
“ Hartt was a man of the broadest sympathies. Oceof his peculiar- 
ities that always impressed me, was the various sides of his character as 
they appeared to different ones of his most intimate friends. Among 
his assistants on the Brazilian Survey were men of the most diverse 
temperaments and tastes, and Hartt always and instinctively approached 
and dealt with these various characters in the most effective maDiier. 
He never acted so out of diplomacy, but out of sympathy ; he put him- 
self in accord with the person with whom he had to deal, and the 
result was that his assistants, and indeed eveiyone who came in contact 
with him, felt drawn towards him. With such a man only the most 
cordial and genial relations were possible. He had a keen appreciation 
of wit, humor, and of the ridiculous, and as there was much in common 
between us on this point, he invariably related to me whatever impressed 
himself as amusing 
Every artist or musician who met Hartt knows of his love for art 
and music. These tastes were always turned to good account in his 
scientific work. No one who had really studied those matters so little, 
could have seized more promptly or more intelligently the ethnologic 
meaning of the art and music of savages with whom he occasionally 
came in contact. His love for music gave him and those of us around 
him a great deal of pleasure. The Brazilians, being naturally very 
fond of music, had every year some of the best musical talent of Europe 
at the Imperial Opera House, and frequent attendance at the opera 
broke for him the strain and w^orry of official responsibility. 
His liking for languages was equally marked, and he never missed 
an opportunity to learn something of them In Brazil he 
became interested in the languages of the native Africans, and never 
