THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST, 
VOL. XXXV. MARCH, 1905. No 3. 
JOHN BELL HATCHER.* 
Charles Schdchkrt, New Haven, Conn. 
PORTRAIT PLATE XI. 
The daily morning papers of July 5, 1904, announced 
the death, on July 3, of one of America's most distinguished 
paleontologists, John Bell Hatcher. Early in June he was 
in Washington and in New Haven, stn(l3ang the Ceratopsia 
of the National and Yale University museums. While with 
the writer at that time he more than once complained of 
being tired, somewhat listless, and ill, but these feelings 
were ascribed to overwork. He returned home full of plans 
for the future, including another trip to Patagonia. little 
thinking that he was then doomed. His vitality had been 
severely taxed in Patagonia, and this combined with the 
strenuous nature of his entire life made him physically un- 
able to withstand an attack of typhoid fever, the presence of 
which had not been determined until a week or ten days 
before he died. His death is all the more keenly felt be- 
cause he was less than 43 years of age. and because it fol- 
lowed so soon after the demise of another distinguished 
paleontologist, Charles E. Beecher. 
John Bell Hatcher, the son of John and Margaret C> 
Hatcher of Virginia, was born at Cooperstown, Brown 
county, Illinois, October 11, 1861. His parents removed to 
Greene county, Iowa, when he was very young. In his 
childhood he was not strong and received his early educa- 
tion from his father, who in the winter months combined 
• Sketches of Hatcher have appeared as follows: Wm. B. Scott, Sci- 
ence, July 29, 1904, pp. 139-142. W. J. Holland, Annals Carnegie Muse- 
um, IT, 1904, pp. 597-604, portrait. Gkokgk F Eaton. Amer- Jour. Sci., 
August, 1904, pp. lW-4. W. J. Holland, Geol. Mag., London, Nov., 1904, pp. 
568-573. 
