Jeffries Wyman. 175 
The thought that fills our minds upon a survey even so incom- 
plete as this is: How much he did, how well he did it all, and 
how simply and quietly ! “We knew that our associate, though 
never hurried, was never idle, and that his great repose of man- 
ner covered a sustained energy; but I suspect that none of us, 
without searching out and collecting his ee papers, had 
adequately estimated their number and their value. There is 
nothing forth-putting about them, nothing adventitious, never 
even a phrase to herald a matter which he deemed important. 
work as a teacher was of the same quality. 
of a bas lecturers I ever heard, although, and partly because, he 
was the most unpretending. You never thought of the speaker, 
nor of the gifts and his ee which such clear exposition were 
calling forth,—onl what he was simply telling and showing 
you. “Then‘ to those ens like his pupils and friends, were in 
personal contact with him, there was the added charm of a most 
serene and sweet temper. He was truthful and conscientious 
to the core. His perfect freedom, in lectures as well as in 
writing, and no less so in daily conversation, from all exagger- 
ation, “false perspective, and fictitious adornment, was the 
natural expression of his innate modesty and refined taste, and 
also of his reverénce for the exact truth. 
It has been a pleasure to pies from former college students, 
who hardly ever saw him cept in the lecture-room, that he 
gave to them much the same impression of his gifts and graces, 
and sterling worth, that he gave us who knew him intimately 
—so transparent was he, and abana, 
With all his quick sense of justice, and no lack of occasion 
for controversy, it seemed to cost him no effort to avoid it alto- 
gether. He made no enemies, and was surrounded by troops 
of life-long nies 5 When he first went abroad, in 1841, 
was told by some near friends, who prtponinsg his d specs fiat 
a chair of Natural History in n his alma mater soon have 
sider if he would be a candidate, en first heard of Wyman’s 
name and of his friends’ expectations or hopes; whereupon he 
dismissed the cpg from his mind. Probably he felt 1 more 
surprise than did Dr. Wyman, when notified, a few months 
afterward, of the pet of the Corporation. The exigencies 
of the Botanic Garden probably overbore other considerations, 
I doubt if Dr. Wyman ever had an envious feeling. Certain it 
“ pai no one ts pate the new professor with truer cordiality, 
roved himself a more constant friend. 
n these days it is sure to be asked how an anatomist, physi- 
oeiets and morphologist like Prof. Wyman regarded the most 
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