HARTT

Charles Frederic ( son of James William Hartt ). b. Fred eric ton, New-Brunswick 23 Aug. 1840; ed. at Acacia coll. to 1860; went to St. John’s 1860; geologist in the Thayer expedition to Brazil 1865, again in Brazil 1867, 1870, 1871, 1874, 1878; founded geological museum at Rio Janiero; student of Indian languages and folk lore; profe or of natural history Va ar college 1868; profe or of geology Cornell univ. 1868 to death; author of Thayer expedition. Scientific results of a journal to Brazil . Boston 1870; Amazonian tortoise myths . Rio 1875. d. of yellow fever, Rio Janiero 19 March 1878. Nature 13 June 1878 pp. 174–5; Popular Science Monthly. New York, June 1878 pp. 231–5, portrait .