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lioration, and the amount of work which Dr. Wyman under- 
took and accomplished last summer might have tasked a robust 
man. There were important accessions to the archeological 
collections, upon which much labor, very trying to ordinary 
patience, had to be expended. And in the last interview I had 
with him, he told me that he had gone through his own mu- 
seum of comparative anatomy, which had somewhat suffered in 
consequence of the alterations in Boylston Hall, and had put 
the whole into perfect order. It was late in August when he 
left Cambridge for his usual visit to the White Mountain region, 
y which he avoided the autumnal catarrh; and there, at 
Bethlehem, New Hampshire, on the 4th of September, a severe 
hemorrhage from the lungs suddenly closed his valuable life. — 
_ Let us turn to his relations with this society. He entered it 
in October, 1887, just thirty-seven years ago, and shortly after 
e had taken his degree of Doctor in Medicine. He was Re-- 
cording Secretary from 1839 to 1841; Curator of Ichthyology 
and Herpetology from 184i to 1847, of Herpetology from 1847 
to 1858, of Comparative Anatomy from 1855 to 1874. While 
in these later years his duties may have been almost nominal, 
tt should be remembered that in the earlier days a curator not 
only took charge of his portion of the Museum, but in a great 
degree created it. Then for fourteen years, from 1856 to 1870, 
€ was the president of this society, as assiduous in all its 
duties as he was wise in council; and he resigned the chair 
which he so long adorned and dignified only when the increas- 
ing delicacy of his health, to which night-exposure was preju- 
teal, made it unsafe for him any longer to undertake its 
duties. The record shows that he has made here one hundred 
and five scientific communications,* several of them very 1m- 
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how that P 
& made a good number of communications; among them one 
of the longest and ablest of his memoirs. 
M hen he was from the first a member of the Faculty of the 
useum of Comparative Zoology, where his services and his 
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scilety i t be—of such 
Portion ary a and cursory though it mus 
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Published papers, should form a part of this account of his life 
* The Ro : . . i of b 
yal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers enumerates sixty-four by 
Prof. Wyman alone, and four in conjunction with others. 
