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Hartt, C Fred
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popular name of Charles Frederick Hartt
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| Geologist and palaeontologist, born in Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada. He was an explorer and collector in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the early 1860s. The leader of several expeditions to Brazil (1865–6, 1867, 1870), he wrote The Geology of Brazil (1870) and became director of Brazil's Geological Survey (1875–8). He founded geological work in that country, where he died of yellow fever. He also taught at Cornell University (1868–78). |
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