WISCONSIN. 



WYMAN, JEFFRIES. 



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of November 3, 1874, was conducted in Wis- 

 consin with remarkable energy by the Repub- 

 licans ami their antagonists, whom they desig- 

 nated liy tin- general name of Ket'on; 

 including, it -. .-MIS Democrats and Grangers, 

 whatever the political opinions of the hitter 

 might have been. 



1 'In- r. -ult of tho election for Congressmen 

 was the IJej.iiblicaiiH and three Reformers, as 

 l'o!lo\\s: Kir-t di-trict, Charles (',. \\illiaiiiH, 

 Republican, I'.'.StW; Fratt, Koformer, 9,532 ; 

 second district, I.ueien H. Caswell, BepabU* 

 ran, 11,076; Cook, Reformer, 11,423; third 

 di>trict, Henry S. Mngoon, Republican, 11,- 

 535 ; Thompson, Reformer, 10,843 ; fourth 

 district, Ludington, Independent, 9,545; Wil- 

 liam I'. Lynde, Reformer, 12,049; fifth dis- 

 trict, Hiram Barber, Republican, 9,889; 8. D. 

 Hun-hard, Reformer, 16,784; sixth district, 

 Alanson M. Kiinball, Republican, 14,783; 

 Bouck, Reformer, 14,641 ; seventh district, 

 Jeremiah M. Rusk, Republican, 13,684; Ful- 

 ton, Reformer, 10,196 ; eighth district, Alex- 

 ander S. McDill, Republican, 9,444 ; Cate, Re- 

 former, 9,446. 



The whole number of votes polled through- 

 out the State at the November election in 

 1874, as classified by congressional districts, 

 amounted to 186,435; of which 93,411 were 

 cast for Reform, and 93,024 for Republican 

 nominees. In 1878 it was 147,828, of which 

 81,199 were cast for Reform, and 66,224 for 

 Republican candidates. 



The members of the Legislature elected in 

 November,' 1874, will stand in regard to poli- 

 tics as follows: In the Senate Republicans 

 17, Reformers 15, Independent 1 ; in the House 

 of Representatives Republicans 64, Reform- 

 ers 35, Independent 1 ; showing a Republican 

 majority over Reformers and Independent 

 combined of 1 in the Senate, 28 in the Lower 

 House, and 29 on joint ballot. In the House 

 of Representatives of the previous Legisla- 

 ture, the Reformers had a majority of about 

 20 over the Republicans. 



The total amount of taxable property, per- 

 sonal and real estate, in the State, for the year 

 1874, waa $346,476,464, showing an increase 

 of $5,856,212 over its amount in 1878. 



The education of youth is well provided for 



in Wisconsin, and her public schools, including 

 tho univcr>ity, the, Agricultural College, and 

 the normal schools, are in successful opera- 

 tion, and largely attended. The school-age it 

 by law between four and twenty years. 



'1 IK- various charitable institutions of tho 

 State are commcndably cared for and under 

 excellent management, realizing the purposes 

 l'i.r which tlu-y were respectively established. 



W YMAN, JEFFRIES, M. D., an eminent anat- 

 omist, regarded as tho highest authority in com- 

 parative and general anatomy in America, born 

 at Chelmstbrd, near Lowell, Mass., August 11, 

 1814; died at Bethlehem, N. 11., September 4, 

 1874. He graduated from Harvard College in 

 1888, and from the Harvard Medical School in 

 1887. He next visited Europe, and, during a 

 two years' stay, studied medicine in the hos- 

 pitals of Paris, and natural history in the 

 Jardin det Plantet. From 1843 to 1847 he 

 was Professor of Anatomy in the Hampden- 

 Sidney Medical College at Richmond, Va., and 

 from 1847 to his death Horsey Professor of 

 Anatomy in Harvard University, and Professor 

 of Comparative Anatomy in the Lawrence Sci- 

 entific School. In 1839 he had been appointed 

 Curator of the Lowell Institute, and in 1841 

 delivered his first course of lectures there. 

 These were not published, but a second course, 

 delivered in 1849, were. He had long been a 

 member and officer of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, and was from 1856 to 1857 

 its president. He had also been President of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, and a member of the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. In 1866 he 

 became Curator and one of the trustees of the 

 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnol- 

 ogy, and had made it a magnificent success. 

 His essay " On the Nervous System of the 

 Rana Pipient, or Bull-Frog," published by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, is one of the most re- 

 markable anatomical monographs ever writ- 

 ten; and his other numerous papers had given 

 him the highest reputation abroad, though liis 

 extreme modesty kept him from being so wide- 

 ly appreciated as he deserved. 



