10 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 



All now have passed away, but many great names remain: Verrill 

 went to Yale; Packard to Brown; Edward S. Morse to Japan and 

 then to Salem; David Starr Jordan to Indiana and then to Leland 

 Stanford, first as Professor and then as President; B. G. Wilder to 

 Cornell; J. A. Allen to the American Museum in New York; and 

 many other names could be added to this list. While Agassiz 

 travelled about the country lecturing and collecting for the Museum 

 and acting part time as Professor in Charleston, South Carolina 

 (where he is said to have been better paid than in Cambridge), Gray 

 began building up the great herbarium which today bears his name. 

 With the opening up of the West, Government expeditions made 

 great botanical collections. These were sent to Gray for study. He it 

 was who first pointed out the relations of our Eastern flora to that of 

 temperate China and who first thought out the explanation of this 

 phenomenon. All this time he was carrying on his correspondence 

 with Darwin, and Darwin, in an unpublished letter, speaks of him as 

 a most sympathetic and valued critic. Gray championed evolution 

 during those diflficult days when many stood on the other side while 

 Agassiz could not quite see eye to eye with Gray in this matter. 



But the pictures of Darwin and Huxley hang on the wall of the 

 Director's Room in the Museum to this day alongside those of 

 Agassiz's old friend and patron, Humboldt, of his admirer Owen, 

 and many other equally distinguished European contemporaries. 



Agassiz began his investigations in Europe and continued to draw 

 not only inspiration but prodigious masses of material which laid the 

 foundations for the great collections in natural history which enrich 

 our Museum today, making it the most evenly developed and, in 

 many departments, the richest of any University Museum and un- 

 questionably in a class with the great governmental museums of the 

 Old World. The resources of the Museum in its several departments 

 are set forth in pages that follow these. The story of the acquisition 

 of the many components which go to make up our Museum at the 

 present time is a very absorbing one. 



Jeffries Wyman became Hersey Professor of Anatomy in 1847, 

 after his name had become widely known because of his brilliant 

 and versatile contributions to anatomy, comparative anatomy and 

 zoology. He first described the gorilla and later curious creatures 

 procured during his trips to South America with his friend George 



