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with his scientific work without distraction. One of them, 

 the late Dr. William J. Walker, sent him ten thousand dol- 

 lars outright ; the other, the late Thomas Lee, who had helped 

 in his early education, supplemented the endowment of the 

 Hersey professorship with an equal sum, stipulating that the 

 income thereof should be paid to Professor Wyman during 

 life, whether he held the chair or not. Seldom, if ever, has 

 a moderate sum produced a greater benefit. 



Throughout the later years of Professor Wyman's life a 

 new museum has claimed his interest and care, and is indebted 

 to him for much of its value and promise. In 1866, when 

 failing strength demanded a respite from oral teaching, and 

 required him to pass most of the season for it in a milder 

 climate, he was named by the late George Peabody one of 

 the seven trustees of the museum and professorship of Amer- 

 ican archaeology and ethnology, which this philanthropist pro- 

 ceeded to found in Harvard University ; and his associates 

 called upon him to take charge of the establishment. For 

 this he was peculiarly fitted by all his previous studies, and 

 by his predilection for ethnological inquiries. These had al- 

 ready engaged his attention, and to this class of subjects he 

 was thereafter mainly devoted, — with what sagacity, consum- 

 mate skill, untiring diligence and success, his seventh annual 

 report, — the last published just before he died, — his elabo- 

 rate memoir on shell-heaps, now printing, and especially the 

 Archaeological Museum in Boylston Hall, abundantly testify. 

 If this museum be a worthy memorial of the founder's liber- 

 ality and foresight, it is no less a monument to Wyman's rare 

 ability and devotion. Whenever the enduring building which 

 is to receive it shall be erected, surely the name of its first 

 curator and organizer should be inscribed, along with that of 

 the founder, over its portal. 



Of Professor Wyman's domestic life, let it here suffice to 

 record, that in December, 1850, he married Adeline Wheel- 

 wright, who died in June, 1855, leaving two daughters ; that 

 in August, 1861, he married Anna Williams Whitney, who 

 died in February, 1864, shortly after the birth of an only and 

 a surviving son. 



