BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 175 



The thought that fills our minds upon a survey even so incomplete as this is : How 

 much he did, how well he did it all, and how simply and quietly ! We knew that our 

 associate, though never hurried, was never idle, and that his great repose of manner 

 covered a sustained energy ; but I suspect that none of us, without searching out and 

 collecting his published papers, had adequately estimated their number and their value. 

 There is nothing forth-putting about them, nothing adventitious, never even a phrase 

 to herald a matter which he deemed important. 



His w'ork as a teacher was of the same equality. He w\as one of the best lecturers I 

 ever heard, although, and partly because, he Avas the most unpretending. You never 

 thought of the speaker, nor of the gifts and acquisitions which such clear exposition were 

 calling forth, — only of what he was simply telling and showing you. Then to those who, 

 like his pupils and friends, were in personal contact with him, there was tiie added cliarm 

 of a most serene and sweet temper. He was truthful and conscientious to the very core. 

 His perfect freedom, in lectures as well as in writing, and no less so in daily conversation, 

 from all exaggeration, false perspective, and fixctitious adornment, "was the natural expres- 

 sion of his innate modesty and refined taste, and also of his reverence for the exact truth. 



Respecting the views of Jefiries Wyman upon the subject that has most deeply moved 

 the minds of profound thinkers in our day. Dr. Gray remarked : 



In these days it is sure to be asked how an anatomist, physiologist, and morphologist 

 like Prof. Wyman regarded the most remarkable scientific movement of his time, the 

 revival and apparent prevalence of doctrines of evolution. As might be expected, he 

 was neither an advocate nor an opponent. Ha was not one of those persons who quickly 

 make up their minds, and announce their opinions with a confidence inversely proportion- 

 ate to their knowledge. He could consider long, and hold his judgment in suspense. 



And further on he adds : 



Upon one point Wyman was clear from the beginning. He did not wait until evolution- 

 ary doctrines were about to preA'ail, before he judged thena to be essentially philosophical 

 and healthful, " in accordance with the order of Nature, as commonly manifested in her 

 works," and that they need not disturb the foundations of natural theology. 



Perhaps none of us can be trusted to judge of such a question impartially, upon the 

 bare merits of the case; but Wyman's judgment was as free from bias as that of any one 

 I ever knew. Not at all, however, in this case from indift'erence or unconcern. He was 

 not only, philosophically, a convinced theist, in all hours and under all " variations of 

 mood and tense," but personally a devout man, an habitual and reverent attendant upon 

 Christian worship and ministrations. 



Those of us wdio attended his funeral must have felt the appropriateness for the occa- 

 sion of the words which were there read from the Psalmist : — 



'* The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy-work. 



Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all ; the 



earth is full of thy riches ; so is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping 

 innumerable, both great and small beasts. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are 

 created, and thou renewest the face of the earth." 



