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married Miss Ardella Beebe, and in the same year he went to 
Salem, together with E. S. Morse, A. S. Packard, and F. W. Put¬ 
nam, his fellow pupils under Agassiz and his life-long friends. 
They worked together at the Peabody academy and for the estab¬ 
lishment of the American naturalist. In 1870 he became the 
Custodian, in 1881 the Curator, of the Boston society of natural 
history, which position he held at the time of his death. He was 
professor of zoology and paleontology at the Massachusetts Insti¬ 
tute of Technology from 1870 to 1888, and Professor of biology at 
Boston University from 1877. He was the founder of the sea¬ 
side laboratory at Annisquam, and took the leading part in the 
foundation of the Teachers’ School of Science and of the American 
society of naturalists. He was elected a member of the National 
academy in 1875, and since then to corresponding and honorary 
membership in numerous scientific societies. He received the 
honorary degree of LL. D. from Brown University in 1898.” 
ADDRESS OF PROF. EDWARD S. MORSE. 
Mr. President,— ^ 
I am asked to speak of Professor Hyatt’s life in his early Cam¬ 
bridge days. An intimate friendship of forty-three years, extending 
from early manhood to mature life, is, in some respects, a bar to the 
critical study of a man’s life. Everything is taken for granted, 
nothing offends. It is as if one undertook to describe one’s self, 
for such friendships blend and it is hard to get a perspective. If 
one could have some premonition of a man’s future eminence, one 
might assume the character of a Boswell, but the free and happy 
ways of a student’s life give little thought for the morrow. In 
order to get a personal view of Hyatt in his student life at Cam¬ 
bridge, it is necessary to preface it by a sketch of his environment 
at that time. The associates with Hyatt, now living and who have 
continued their scientific work, were the younger Agassiz, Scudder, 
Putnam, Shaler, Verrill, and the writer, and later Bickmore and 
Packard. Of these, Agassiz lived with his father, Scudder lived at 
his home in Boston, Hyatt had rooms in Divinity hall, while the 
rest of us lived in a wooden building which stood on the present 
site of the Peabody museum. Our rooms were in the second story of 
the building, the doors of our chambers opening into a large, square. 
