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compliance with your invitation, Mr. President, to say some- 

 thing of what he was to us, and has done for us, and to put 

 upon record, for the use of those who come after us, some 

 account of his uneventful life, some notice, however imperfect, 

 of his work and his writings. I could not do this without the 

 help of friends who knew him well in early life, and of some 

 of you who are much more conversant than I am with most 

 of his researches. Such aid, promptly rendered, has been 

 thankfully accepted and freely used. 



Our associate's father, Dr. Rufus Wyman, — born in 

 Woburn, graduated at Harvard College in 1799, and in the 

 latter part of his life physician to the McLean Asylum for 

 the Insane, — was a man of marked ability and ingenuity. 

 Called to the charge of this earliest institution of the kind 

 in New England at its beginning, he organized the plan of 

 treatment and devised excellent mechanical arrangements, 

 which have since been developed, and introduced into other 

 establishments of the kind. His mother was Ann Morill, 

 daughter of James Morill, a Boston merchant. This name is 

 continued, and is familiar to us, in that of our associate's 

 elder brother. 



Jeffries Wyman, the third son, derived his baptismal name 

 from the distinguished Dr. John Jeffries of Boston, under 

 whom his father studied medicine. He was born on the 11th 

 of August, 1814, at Chelmsford, a township of a few hundred 

 inhabitants in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, not far 

 from the present city of Lowell. As his father took up his 

 residence at the McLean Asylum in 1818, when Jeffries was 

 only four years old, he received the rudiments of his educa- 

 tion at Charlestown, in a private school, but afterwards went 

 to the Academy at Chelmsford, and in 1826 to Philips Exeter 

 Academy, where, under the instruction of Dr. Abbot, he was 

 prepared for college. He entered Harvard College in 1829, 

 the year in which Josiah Quincy took the presidency, and was 

 graduated in 1833, in a class of fifty-six, six of whom became 

 professors in the University. He was not remarkable for 

 general scholarship, but was fond of chemistry, and his pref- 

 erence for anatomical studies was already developed. Some 



