JEFFRIES WYMAN. 381 
residence in Boston except for the winter and spring; and 
during these months the milder climate of Richmond 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, the Parkman professorship in the Medical 
School in Boston being filled by the present incumbent, Dr. 
Holmes. Thus commenced Professor Wyman’s most useful 
and honorable connection as a teacher with the University, of 
which the President and Fellows speak in the terms I have 
already recited. He began his work in Holden Chapel, the 
upper floor being the lecture room, the lower containing the 
dissecting room and the anatomical museum of the college, 
with which he combined his own collections and preparations, 
which from that time forward increased rapidly in number 
and value under his industrious and skillful hands. At length 
Boylston Hall was built for the anatomical and the chemical 
departments, and the museum, lecture and working rooms 
were established commodiously in their present quarters; and 
Professor Wyman’s department assumed the rank and im- 
portance which it deserved. Both human and comparative 
anatomy were taught to special pupils, some of whom have 
proved themselves worthy of their honored master, while the 
annual courses of lectures and lessons on anatomy, physi- 
ology, and for a time the principles of zodlogy, imparted 
highly valued instruction to undergraduates and others. 
In the formation and perfecting of his museum — the first 
of the kind in the country, arranged upon a plan both physi- 
ological and morphological — no pains and labors were spared, 
and long and arduous journeys and voyages were made to con- © 
tribute to its riches. In the summer of 1849, — having re- 
plenished his frugal means with the proceeds of a second 
course of lectures before the Lowell Institute (namely, upon 
comparative physiology, a good condensed shorthand report of 
which was published at the time), — he accompanied Captain 
Atwood of Provincetown, in a small sloop, upon a fishing voy- 
age high up the coast of Labrador. In the winter of 1852, 
going to Florida for his health, he began his fruitful series of 
