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entific work without distraction. One of them, the late Dr. 
William J. Walker, sent him ten thousand dollars outright; 
the other, the late Thomas Lee, who had helped in his early 
education, supplemented the endowment of the Hersey profes- 
sorship with an equal sum, stipulating that the income thereof 
should be paid to Prof. Wyman during life, whether he held 
the chair or not. Seldom, if ever, has a moderate sum pro- 
duced a greater benefit. 
Throughout the later years of Prof. Wyman’s life a new mu- 
seum 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 trus- 
tees of the Museum and Professorship of American Archeol- 
ogy and Ethnology, which this philanthropist proceeded to 
found in Harvard University; and his associates called upon 
him to take charge of the establishment. r this he was 
peculiarly fitted by all his previous studies, and by his predilee- 
tion for ethnological inquiries. These had already engaged his 
attention, and to this class of subjects he was thereafter mainly 
evoted,—with what sagacity, consummate skill, untiring dili- 
gence and success, his seven annual Reports—the last published 
just before he died,—his elaborate memoir on shell-heaps, now 
printing, and especially the Archeological Museum in Boyls- 
ton Hall, abundantly testify. If this museum be a worthy 
memorial of the founder's liberality and foresight, it is no less 
a monument of Wyman’s rare ability and devotion. When- 
ever 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 Prof. Wyman’s domestic life, let it here suffice to record, 
that in Dec., 1850, he married Adeline Wheelwright, who died 
in June, 1855, leaving two daughters; that in August, 1861, 
married Anna Williams Whitney, who died in February, 
1864, shortly after the birth of an only and a surviving son. 
Of his later days, of the slow, yet all too rapid progrcss 
fatal pulmonary disease, it is needless to protract the story. 
Winter after winter, as he exchanged our bleak climate for that — 
of Florida, we could only hope that he might return. Spring 
after spring he came back to us invigorated, thanks to the bland 
i d the open life in boat and tent, which acted like a charm; 
—thanks, too, to the watchful care of his attached friend, Mr 
Peabody, his constant companion in Florida life. One winter 
was passed in Europe, a in reference to the Archeological 
Museum, partly in ies of better health; but no benefit was 
received. The past winter in Florida produced the usual ame 
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