500 JEFFRIES WYMAN. 



printed in the Proceedings for 18G6, entitled "Notes on the Cells of 

 the Bee." 



In 1849 he gave a second course of lectures at the Lowell Institute, 

 and with the means thus acquired he made a voyage to the coast of 

 Labrador. 



Professor "\Yyman married Adeline Wheelwright in December, 

 1850. The winter of 1852 he passed in Florida. In 1854, he trav- 

 elled extensively in Europe, accompanied by his wife, from whom he 

 was parted, by her death, in the following June. 



The spring of 1856 found him with two students in Surinam, where 

 he was prostrated by the fever of the country. Being still forced to 

 make pilgrimages for his health, in 1858-59 he accepted the invita- 

 tion of Captain J. M. Forbes and made a voyage to La Plata ; and, 

 after ascending the rivers Uruguay and Parana, he crossed the con- 

 tinent with his friend, Mr. G. A. Peabody, and returned home by the 

 way of Peru and the Isthmus. 



In August, 1861, he married Ann "\Y. Whitney, whom he had the 

 misfortune to lose in 1864. By his first wife he had two daughters, 

 and by his second a son, all of whom still survive. 



On the foundation, by Mr. George Peabody, of the Museum of 

 American Ethnology and Archosology at Cambridge, Professor 

 Wymaii, who was named as one of the seven trustees, was at once 

 requested by his fellow-members of tiie board to take charge of the 

 Museum as its Curator. These new duties drew him, in part, away 

 from general anatomical and physiological researches into a special 

 field, upon the margin of which he had often trod in his earlier in- 

 vestigations, and we find him devoting his time, from this period, 

 principally to anthropological studies. His immense knowledge of 

 comparative anatomy proved of very great advantage in these new 

 studies, while his predilection for human anatomy found sufficient 

 opportunities for its indulgence. Being obliged to spend his winters 

 in Florida, he had opportunities to investigate the ancient shell-heaps 

 which are so extensive there ; and to a person of Wyman's peculiar 

 powers and careful research these prehistoric remains could but prove 

 most instructive. 



From the study of these, and from the examinations of many shell- 

 heaps of a similar character along the Atlantic coast, especially of 

 Maine and Massachusetts, he was able to draw many interesting con- 

 clusions. The early results of his labors in this field are given in two 

 papers in the American Naturalist for 1867-68. A more extended 

 memoir on the shell-heaps of Florida was completed but a short time 



