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plished, had his life been spared, we cannot repress a feel- 
ing of regret at the loss which science has sustained in the 
death of this talented and devoted man. 
Prof. Hartt was the eldest son of the late Jarvis William 
and Prudence (Brown) Hartt and was born at Fredericton, 
Hew Brunswick, August 23, 1840. 
His father, Jarvis Hartt, on the completion of his educa- 
tion was appointed Principal of the Baptist Educational 
Seminary in Fredericton. He was noted for his earnest 
character and quiet devotion to educational work, and 
these qualities no doubt helped to mould the character of 
his son, and implant in him those habits of intense and 
continous application which he possessed. And to the 
line temperament and high ideals of his mother we may 
believe that Prof. Hartt was largely indebted for the 
inspiration which carried him along in the study of 
Nature. Mrs. Hartt was educated at Cambridge, Mass., 
and came to Fredericton to take charge of one of the de- 
partments of the seminary where her future husband was 
teaching. Her intellectual training enabled her to appre- 
ciate her son’s tastes, and in her he found a sympathetic 
and ready listener, when as school-boy and student he pro- 
pounded to her his schemes for future study and work. 
Through her friends he found himself at home in later years 
in Cambridge, and frequently wrote to her of his plans and 
prospects. 
Hartt’s early education was carried on under the direct 
supervision of his father, who, for a long time was identified 
with the educational interests of Nova Scotia and New 
Brunswick. He studied at Horton Academy in Wolfville 
N.S. where his father was at the time professor, and after- 
ward at Acadia College in the same town. In 1860 he gra- 
duated from the college with honor, receiving the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts, and later that of Master of Arts. 
When still a boy, Hartt developed a strong taste lor phi- 
lology, and with the aid of transient people of the vil- 
lage near his home, would make vocabularies of Gaelic and 
Italian ; and it was a day to be remembered by him wheu 
