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were shown by a special series of experiments to lose this at 

 a temperature of 120°, or at most 134° Fahr. But Prof. 

 Wyman carried the boiling up to Jive hours, and in these 

 flasks no infusoria of any kind appeared. The question of 

 abiogenesis stands to-day very much where Prof. Wyman 

 left it seven years ago. 



I must omit all notice of the ethnological work which has 

 occupied his later years, merely referring to the seven Annual 

 Reports of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of Ameri- 

 can Archaeology and Ethnology, of which he was curator. 

 The last of these, issued just before the writer's death, con- 

 tains the principal results of his investigation of the human 

 remains he collected in the shell-heaps of East Florida, and 

 convincing evidence of the cannibalism of those who made 

 them. A fuller memoir, embodying all his observations of 

 the last six winters upon the Florida shell-mounds, was sent 

 to the printer just before he died. 



The thought that fills our minds upon a survey even so 

 incomplete as this is : How much he did, how well he did it 

 all, and how simply and quietly ! We knew that our asso- 

 ciate, though never hurried, was never idle, and that his 

 great repose of manner covered a sustained energy; but I 

 suspect that none of us, without searching out and collecting 

 his published 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. 



His work as a teacher was of the same quality. He was 

 one of the best lecturers I ever heard, although, and partly 

 because, he was the most unpretending. Tou never thought 

 of the speaker, nor of the gifts and acquisitions which such 



