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been dead nearly twelve years that city was still the center of 

 biologic science. Wyman attended the lectures of Flourens, 

 Longet and Majendie on Physiology, and those of de Blainville, 

 Dumeril, Milne-Edwards, St. Hilaire and Valenciennes on 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. In the summer of 1842, 

 after the lectures were over, he made pedestrian tours along the 

 Loire and the Rhine, returned through Belgium and then went 

 to London. There, while studying the Hunterian collections at 

 the Royal College of Surgeons, he learned that his father was 

 alarmingly ill; he departed as soon as practicable but, to his in- 

 tense grief, arrived too late to see his beloved parent alive. 



After his return to Boston he wrote for Silliman's Journal 

 (American Journal of Science and Arts) reviews of three widely 

 different publications, viz., DeKay's Zoology of New York, 

 Vogt's Embryologie des Salmones, and Agassiz's Monographies 

 d'Echinoderms, mvans et fossiles. 1 These, and the two that 

 appeared in the same journal twenty years later of Weir-Mitchell 

 and Morehouse's Respiration of Turtles and Owen's Monograph 

 of the Aye- Aye, are apparently his only reviews; it may be inferred 

 that he did not prefer the attitude of critical commentator. 



Congenial occupation was offered in 1843 by his appointment 

 as professor of anatomy and physiology in the medical depart- 

 ment of the Hampton-Sidney College at Richmond, Virginia; this 

 involved his absence from Boston only in the winter and spring, 

 when the milder climate was advantageous. 



In 1847, upon the death of Dr. J. C. Warren, the instruction 

 in anatomy and physiology at the Harvard Medical School in 

 Boston was intrusted to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (who was 

 an accomplished anatomist as well as poet and writer); his was 

 the Parkman professorship, named in honor of Dr. George Park- 

 man. At the same time, Wyman, then thirty-three years old, was 



i The monographs of his future colleague were characterized as follows: 

 "They constitute one of the most important additions which have been made 

 to modern zoology, no less in consequence of the completeness of the plan 

 upon which they have been conceived than the fidelity with which they have 

 been executed." 



