3878 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
compliance with your invitation, Mr. President, to say some- 
thing of what he was to us, and has done for us, and to put 
upon record, for the use of those who come after us, some 
account of his uneventful life, some notice, however imperfect, 
of his work and his writings. I could not do this without the 
help of friends who knew him well in early life, and of some 
of you who are much more conversant than I am with most 
of his researches. Such aid, promptly rendered, has been 
thankfully accepted and freely used. 
Our associate’s father, Dr. Rufus Wyman, — born in 
Woburn, graduated at Harvard College in 1799, and in the 
latter part of his life physician to the McLean Asylum for 
the Insane, — was a man of marked ability and ingenuity. 
Called to the charge of this earliest institution of the kind 
in New England at its beginning, he organized the plan of 
treatment and devised excellent mechanical arrangements, 
which have since been developed, and introduced into other 
establishments of the kind. His mother was Ann Morill, 
daughter of James Morill, a Boston merchant. This name is 
continued, and is familiar to us, in that of our associate’s 
elder brother. ’ 
Jeffries Wyman, the third son, derived his baptismal name 
from the distinguished Dr. John Jeffries of Boston, under 
whom his father studied medicine. He was born on the 11th 
of August, 1814, at Chelmsford, a township of a few hundred 
inhabitants in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, not far 
from the present city of Lowell. As his father took up his 
residence at the McLean Asylum in 1818, when Jeffries was 
only four years old, he received the rudiments of his educa- 
tion at Charlestown, in a private school, but afterwards went 
to the Academy at Chelmsford, and in 1826 to Philips Exeter 
Academy, where, under the instruction of Dr. Abbot, he was 
prepared for college. He entered Harvard College in 1829, 
the year in which Josiah Quincy took the presidency, and was 
graduated in 1833, in a class of fifty-six, six of whom became 
professors in the University. He was not remarkable for 
general scholarship, but was fond of chemistry, and his pref- 
erence for anatomical studies was already developed. Some 
