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Lear) Hutton, and a descendant of John Hutton, who came to New York from Scotland and mar- ried, according to the records of the Collegiate church, in 1G96, Katrina " Stranguish " (Strange- wavs). He was educated in private schools in Washington, became a civil engineer; was as- sistant and afterward chief engineer of Washing- ton aqueduct, 1862-63; chief engineer of the

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Chesapeake and Ohio canal, 1869-71, and consult- ing engineer, 1871-80; chief engineer of the "Western Maryland railroad, 1871-74, and he de- signed tiie two first locks and movable dams for Kanawha river, 1874-78. He removed to New York city in 1880, and in 1886 was for a short time consulting engineer of the new aqueduct. He was consulting engineer of the Colorado Mid- land railway; chief engineer of the Washington bridge across the Harlem river. New York, 1886- 89; chief engineer of the Hudson river tunnel, 18S9-91, and a member of the U.S. board of en- gineers on obstructions in the Columbia river. He was elected a member of the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, Jan. 8, 1873; of the Society of Ci\il Engineers of France in 1880, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1890. He difd in Clai)per. Mo.. Dec. 11. 1901.

HYATT, Alpheus, naturalist, was born in Washington, D.C., April 5. 1838; son of Alpheus and Harriet R. (King) Hj^att, and grandson of Seth and Jemima (Jones) Hyatt, natives of Mary- Ian 1. Thomas Hyatt, who landed in Virginia in 1633, is probably his first ancestor in America. He was a student at the Maryland Military acad- emy; completed the freshman year at Yale in the class of 1860; travelled in Europe in 1857; entered the Lawrence Scientific school, Harvard university, in 1858, and was graduated under Professor Agassiz in 1862. He served as captain in the 47th Massachusetts volunteers, 1863-65. In 1867 he became one of the curators at the Es- sex Institute, Salem, Mass.; in 1869 he assisted in founding the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem. Mass., and was appointed one of the cura- t<^)rs of the academy's museum in 1869. In 1870 he was elected custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History, and in 1872 he continued at varinus museums in Europe his work upon Am- monites, begun while a student at the Museum

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of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. He was elected curator of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1881, and having had charge of the fossil cephalopods at the Cambridge nm- seum for many years, was appointed assistant in. paleontology in 1886. He was professor of zoology and paleon- tology in the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, 1870-88. He was one of the two founders, and became manager, of the Teachers' School of Science, and in 1877 was made pro- fessor of biology and zoology at Boston university. In 1883 he helped to found the American Society

of Naturalists, and was elected its first presi- dent. He also founded the laboratory of nat- ural history at Annisquam, Mass., under the auspices of the Woman's Educational society of Boston, and took personal charge of this enterprise, which was subsequently used as the basis for the foundation of the Laboratory of Biology at Wood's Hole, Mass., and he was the president of its first board of trustees. He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1869, and a member of the Na- tional Academy of Science in 1875. In 1889 he was appointed paleontologist in charge of lower mesozoic (Trias and Jura) in the U.S. geological survey, and made several journeys in that and succeeding years in the west. He was one of the four founders and original editors of tiie American Naturalist. lie was elected a member of the American Philosophical society, Feb. 15, 1895; was a member of the Geological Society of Wasliington, D.C.; was made honorary member of the American Society of Naturalists in 1897; corresponding member of the Geological Society of London in 1S97, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His more important works are: Obseri'atious on Polyzoa (1866); Parallelisms Between the Life of the Individual and the Entire Group of the Order Tetrabranchiata (1867); Fossil Cephalopods of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872); Re- vision of North American Poriferce (1875-77); Genera of Fossil Cephalopoda (1883); Larval TJieory of the Origin of Cellular Tissue (1884); Values in Classification of the Stages of Growth and Decline (1888); Genesis of the Arietidce (1889); Carboniferous Cephalopods of Texas (1891-93); Jura and Trias at Taylorsville, Call-