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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 zoology, 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 



