84 Jeffries Wyman. 
and Natural History at the Garden of Plants, attending the 
lectures of Flourens, Majendie and Longet on Physiology, and 
of de Blainville, Isidore St. Hilaire, Valenciennes, Dumeril 
and Milne-Edwards on Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. 
In the summer, when the lectures were over, he made a pedes- 
trian journey along the banks of the Loire, and another along 
the Rhine, returning through Belgium, and by steamer to Lon- 
on. ere, while engaged in the study of the Hunterian col- 
lections at the Royal College of Surgeons, he received informa- 
tion of the alarming illness of his father; he immediately 
turned his face homeward, but on reaching Halifax he learned 
that his father was no more. 
He resumed his residence in Boston, and devoted himself 
mainly to scientific work, wnder circumstances of no small dis- 
couragement. But in 1843 the means of a modest professional 
livelihood came to him in the offer of the chair o natomy 
and Physiology in the medical department of Hampden-Sidney 
College, established at Richmond, Virginia. One advantage of 
this position was that it did not interrupt his residence in Bos- 
ton, 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 ses 
sions, until, in 1847, he was appointed to succeed Dr. Warren 
as Hersey Professor of Anatomy in Harvard College, the Park- 
man professorship in the Medical School in Boston being fill 
by the present incumbent, Dr. Holmes. Thus commenced 
Prof. Wyman’s most useful and honorable connection as 4 
teacher with the university, of which the President and Fel- 
lows speak in the terms I have already recited. He began his 
work in Holden Chapel, the upper floor being the lecture-room, 
lections and preparations, which from that time forward m~ 
creased rapidly in number and value under his industrious and 
skillful hands. At length Boylston Hall was built for the an@ — 
tomical and the chemical departments, and the museum, !¢C — 
ture and working-rooms were established commodiously in thet! 
present quarters; and Prof. Wyman’s department assumed the — 
rank and the importance which it deserved. Both human and 
comparative es were taught to special pupils, some 0 — 
emselves worthy of their honored mastet; — 
while the annual courses of lectures and lessons on Anatomy; — 
Physiology, and for a time the principles of SnOny imparted 
whom have proved t 
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 physiolog® . 
cal and morphological—no pains and labors were spared, an¢ : 
the lower containing the dissecting-room and the anatomical | 
museum of the college, with which he combined his own col — 
