82 : Jeffries Wyman. 
example of a character modest, tranquil, dignified and inde- 
pendent, and of a life simple, contented and honored.” 
What more can be or need be said? It is left for me, in 
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 ac- 
count 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 thank- 
fully accepted and freely use 
ur associate’s father, Dr. Rufus Wyman,—born in Woburm, 
graduated at Harvard College in 1799, and in the latter part of 
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 hund 
inhabitants in Middlesex County, Mass., not far from the pres 
ent 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 education at Charlestown, 1 
a private school; but afterward went to the Academy ® 
Chelmsford, and, in 1826, to Phillips 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, 1 3 
class of fifty-six, six of whom became professors in the univer’ 
sity. He was not remarkable for general scholarship, but was 
fond of chemistry, and his preference for anatomical studies 
was already developed. Some of his class-mates remember the 
interest which was excited among them by a skeleton which he 
made of a mammoth bull-frog from Fresh Pond, probably 0° 
which is still preserved in his museum of comparative anatomy: — 
His skill and taste in drawing, which he turned to such excel 
lent account in his investigations and in the lecture room, ® 
well as his habit of close observation of natural objects met 
with in his strolls, were manifested even in boyhood. 
