Charles Frederick Hartt. 
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Mr. Eand, theMicmac missionary, on his round visited Wolf- 
ville and taught him something of the Indian dialects. 
Hartt’s passion for Nature Science was not a late growth, 
for at the age of ten he showed a decided predeliction for 
Natural History and as he grew up took great delight 
in assisting Prof Ohipman of Acadia College in preparing 
and arranging his specimens. With the professor’s aid and 
encouragement he made great progress in acquiring a 
knowledge of Mineralogy which, owing to the abundance 
of trap-minerals (zeolites &c.) in the vicinity, was a favour- 
ite study of the Professor of Acadia College and his pupils. 
Fortunately Hartt was not with Prof. Chipman when the 
latter made the trip by boat to the trap-cliffs of Blomidon, 
which cost him his life. 
Hartt’s versatility was shown in his talent for drawing, 
and for the acquisition of languages, and we are told that he 
became instructor in drawing in Acadia College when quite 
a youth. While at college he learned the elements of Portu- 
guese from a shoemaker of the village, and this acquisition 
no doubt proved useful to him when he visited Brazil ; he 
attained afterward such proficiency in this language that 
he lectured with great success to cultivated audiences in 
Eio Janeiro. His skill as a draftsman and his command 
of language always drew to his lectures interested hearers. 
Already, while occupied with his college studies, he en- 
tered with zeal into the work of geological investigation. 
He explored the parts of Nova Scotia in the vicinity of the 
Annapolis Yalley and the Basin of Minas, traversing the 
country on foot, and making large collections of specimens 
whenever the opportunity was afforded him. It was his 
intelligent eye and busy hands that selected in the Gaspe- 
reaux Yalley the material which enabled Sir Wm. Dawson 
to establish the genus Aneamites on a remarkable fern of 
the Lower Carboniferous period, which, before that had been 
confounded with Cyclopteris. Many of the specimens of 
minerals and fossils which Hartt collected in those days, are 
to be found in the Museum of the Natural History Society 
at St. John, in the Peter Eedpath Museum of McGill Uni- 
