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He resumed his residence in Boston, and devoted himself 

 mainly to scientific work under circumstances of no small discou- 

 ragement. But in 1843 the means of a modest professional liveli- 

 hood came to bim in the offer of the Chair of Anatomy and Phy- 

 siology in the medical department of Hampden-Sidney College, 

 established at Eichmond, Yirginia. One advantage of this posi- 

 tion was that it did not interrupt his residence in Boston except 

 for the winter and spring ; and during these months the milder 

 climate of Eichmond was even then desirable. He discharged the 

 duties of the Chair most acceptably for five sessions, until, in 

 1847, he was appointed to succeed Dr. Warren as Hersey Professor 

 of Anatomy in Harvard College. 



Here in the formation and perfecting of his museum arranged 

 upon a plan both physiological and morphological, no pains Avere 

 spared. In the summer of 1849 he accompanied Captain Atwood 

 of Provincetown in a small sloop upon a fishing voyage high up 

 the coast of Labrador : in the winter of 1852, going to Florida for 

 his health, he began his fruitful series of explorations and collec- 

 tions in that interesting district. In 1854, accompanied by his 

 wife, he travelled extensively in Europe, and visited all the mu- 

 seums within his reach. In the spring of 1856 he sailed to Suri- 

 nam, penetrated far into the interior in canoes, made important 

 researches upon the ground, and enriched his museum with some 

 of its most interesting collections. Again, in 1858-59, accepting 

 the invitation of Captain J. M. Porbes, he made a voyage to the 

 La Plata, ascended the Uraguay and the Parana in a small iron 

 steamer which Captain Porbes brought upon the deck of his vessel ; 

 then, with his friend G-eorge Augustus Peabody as a companion, 

 he crossed the Pampas to Mendosa, and the Cordilleras to San- 

 tiago and Yalparaiso, whence he came home by way of the Peru- 

 vian coast and the Isthmus. 



By such expeditions many of the choice materials of his museum 

 and of his researches were gathered at his own expense. And in 

 Dr. Wy man's case we have an example of what one man may do 

 unaided, with feeble health and feebler means, by persistent and 

 well-directed industry, without eclat, and almost without obser- 

 vation. 



Throughout the later years of Professor Wyman's life a new 

 museum claimed his interest and care, and is indebted to him 

 for much of its value and promise. In 1866, when failing strength 

 demanded a respite from oral teaching, he was named by the 



