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Jeffries Wyman, 31. D., Professor of Anatomy in Har- 

 vard College, died from a sudden hemorrhage, at Bethle- 

 hem, N. H., Sept. 4, 1874, where he had gone to escape 

 the autumnal catarrh. He was the son of Dr. Rufus and 

 Ann (Morrill) Wyman, and was born at Chelmsford, 

 Mass., Aug. 11, 1814, graduated at Harvard in 1833, 

 and soon after commenced the study of medicine. In 

 1843 he accepted the chair of anatomy and physiology in 

 the Hampden-Sydney College, in Virginia. In 1847 he 

 was appointed to succeed Dr. Warren as the Plersey 

 Professor of Anatomy in Harvard. From 1856 to 1870 

 he was President of the Boston Society of Natural History. 

 On the foundation of the Museum of American Ethnology 

 and Archaeology at Cambridge, he was named one of the 

 seven trustees, and was at once requested by his fellow 

 members of the board to take charge of the museum as 

 its curator. The seven annual reports on the condition 

 and accessions to the new museum are evidences of what 

 he did in that direction. Pie also communicated to the 

 Natural History Society, the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, and to various scientific journals, over one 

 hundred important papers, the results of anatomical and 

 anthropological studies. He married in December, 1850, 

 Adeline Wheelwright, who died in June, 1855, leaving 

 two daughters. He married secondly, in August, 1861, 

 Anna Williams Whitney, who died February, 1864, leav- 

 ing one son. 



Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, M. D., died in Boston 

 (Dorchester District), October, 17, 1874. He was born 

 in Boston June 20, 1810, and was the son of Dr. Benja- 

 min ShurtleiF, a veteran practitioner of eminence. After 

 his graduation at Cambridge in 1831, he commenced the 

 study of medicine, taking his degree in 1834. In early 

 life he was interested in anatomical studies, but latterly 



