JEFFRIES WYMAN. 3879 
of his classmates remember the interest which was excited 
among them by a skeleton which he made of a mammoth bull- 
frog from Fresh Pond, probably one which is still preserved 
in his museum of comparative anatomy. His skill and taste 
in drawing, which he turned to such excellent account in his 
investigations and in the lecture room, as well as his habit of 
close observation of natural objects met with in his strolls, 
were manifested even in boyhood. 
An attack of pneumonia during his senior year in college 
caused much anxiety, and perhaps laid the foundation of the 
pulmonary affection which burdened and finally shortened his 
life. To recover from the effects of the attack, and to guard 
against its return, he made, in the winter of 1833-34, the 
first of those pilgrimages to the coast of the southern States, 
which in later years were so often repeated. Returning with 
strength renewed in the course of the following spring, he 
began the study of medicine under Dr. John C. Dalton, who 
had succeeded to his father’s practice at Chelmsford, but who 
soon removed to the adjacent and thriving town of Lowell. 
Here, and with his father at the McLean Asylum and at the 
Medical College in Boston, he passed two years of profitable 
study. At the commencement of the third year he was 
elected house-student in the medical department, at the Mas- 
sachusetts General Hospital,—then under the charge of 
Drs. James Jackson, John Ware, and Walter Channing, — 
a responsible position, not only most advantageous for the 
study of disease, but well adapted to sharpen a young man’s 
power of observation. 
In 1837, after receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 
he cast about among the larger country towns for a field in 
which to practise his profession. Fortunately for science he 
found no opening to his mind; so he took an office in Boston, 
on Washington Street, and accepted the honorable but far 
from lucrative post of demonstrator of anatomy under Dr. 
John C. Warren, the Hersey professor. His means were 
very slender, and his life abstemious to the verge of privation ; 
for he was unwilling to burden his father, who indeed had 
done all he could in providing for the education of two sons. 
