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of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He was an Honorary 

 Member of the Harvard Medical School Association, and for many 

 years was vestryman of St. Paul's Church. 



In the various societies for medical improvement of which Dr. 

 Lyman was an honored, an active, and an interested member, his 

 qualities as an original thinker and accurate observer, and his large ex- 

 perience, to which was added much aptness and conciseness in debate, 

 gave weight to every expression of his opinions. 



In his visits abroad during nearly a half-century of professional life 

 Dr. Lyman had made the acquaintance of many medical and scientific 

 men of celebrity ; and he delighted in extending to some of these, vis- 

 iting this country, his graceful welcome and hospitalities, to which his 

 own cultivated taste in matters of literature and art gave additional 

 charm. 



Dr. Lyman was in no respect a passive man. Of active temperament, 

 quick and independent in thought and deed, earnest in convictions, 

 unchanging in friendships, with a high sense of honor, he was always 

 ready to promote a good work, but impatient of wilful negligence or 

 imposture. His busy career compelled him to limit his attention to 

 matters more or less germane to his profession, rather than to under- 

 take elaborate and minute scientific researches ; but he solaced the 

 intervals of a laborious professional life with literary enjoyments and 

 when at times he contributed something for publication it was notable 

 for clearness and elegance of diction, and bore the stamp of trust- 

 worthiness. 



Dr. Lyman married, first, October 14, 1846, Maria Cornelia Ritchie, 

 daughter of James T. Austin ; she died in 1864, leaving two sons and 

 two daughters. He married, second, February 13, 1879, Henrietta, 

 daughter of Samuel T. Dana, who survives him. 



Having gone abroad in the spring of 1890, Dr. and Mrs. Lyman 

 passed the ensuing winter in Italy, and the summer in Switzerland 

 and Paris. On reaching London in August, Dr. Lyman had an attack 

 of facial erysipelas, from which he had four times previously suffered, 

 and which ten years previously had been complicated with a deep- 

 seated orbital abscess causing loss of vision in one eye. The same 

 conditions now recurred, and were combined with embolism of the 

 femoral artery. He early became unconscious, and died on the 19th 

 of August, 1891. His interment took place at Mount Auburn, on 

 the 2d of September. 



