INDEX 



471 



acquaintance with William Bar- 

 tram, 57; begins collection of birds, 

 57; success in bird portraiture, 58; 

 editor Roe's New Cyclopedia, 60; 

 freed from teaching, 60; vain 

 appeal to Pres. Jefferson, 61; 

 attempts etching on copper, 61; 

 first plans for publication of 

 Ornithology, 61; two canvassing 

 tours, 62; varied results, 62; 

 volume two published, 64; explo- 

 rations beyond the Alleghanies, 

 64; letters to the Portfolio, 64; 

 attention turned to water birds, 

 65; gaining recognition, 65; vol- 

 ume eight published, 65; death, 

 66; personality, 66; attitude of 

 Audubon toward, and comparison 

 with, 67, 69; his value to science, 

 68; also 427 



Wilson, Dr. E. B., 356 



Wilson, Rev. J. L., 188, 189 



Wing, Rev. Augustus, 262 



Winlock, Prof. Joseph, 368 



Winthrop, John, Gov., 10 



Wistar, Dr. Caspar, 95 



Wollaston, Dr. William Hyde, 97 



Woodhouse, Dr. James, 95 



Woods Hole, 280, 443 



Woodward, A. Smith, 327, 330, 334 



Woodward, Dr. Henry, 291 



Woolsey, Dr. Theodore Dwight, 103 



Wortman, Jacob L., 326 



Wright, Prof. A. W., 90 



Wyman, Jeffries, birth and early 

 records, 173; graduation from 

 Harvard, 173; taste for nature, 

 173; studies medicine, 175; Cura- 

 tor of Lowell Institute, 176; goes 

 abroad, 176; list of his reviews, 

 177; professorships, 177, 178; 

 courses of lectures, 1 78 note; Presi- 

 dent of Boston Society of Natural 

 History, 179; Trustee and Cura- 

 tor of Peabody Museum, 182; 

 testimonial, 183; marriages, 184; 

 death, 185; value and extent of 

 work, 185; researches on gorilla 

 and history of discovery as a new 

 species, 186; priority of claim, 189; 

 second paper, 190; treatment of 

 race problem, 191; attitude to- 

 ward evolution, 193; other scien- 

 tific problems, 195; neurology, 

 196; discovery concerning thread- 

 worms, 198; value as a scientist 

 and personal characteristics, 199; 

 also 116, 157 



Wyman, Dr. Morrill, 172, 173 note 



Yale Medical School, 104, 106 

 Yerkes Observatory, 378 

 Young, Dr. Thomas, 45 



Zoophytes, of the Wilkes Expedi- 

 tion, 239, 245; classification of ? 

 246 



