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Florida life. One winter was passed in Europe, partly in ref- 

 erence to the Archaeological Museum, partly in hope of bet- 

 ter health; but no benefit was received. The past winter in 

 Florida produced the usual amelioration, and the amount of 

 work which Dr. Wyman undertook and accomplished last 

 summer might have tasked a robust man. There were im- 

 portant accessions to the archaeological 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 museum of com- 

 parative anatomy, which had somewhat suffered in conse- 

 quence 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, by which he avoided the autumnal catarrh ; and 

 there, at Bethlehem, New Hampshire, on the 4th of Septem- 

 ber, 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, 1837, just thirty-seven years ago, and shortly 

 after he had taken his degree of Doctor in Medicine. He 

 was Recording Secretary from 1839 to 1811 ; Curator of 

 Ichthyology and Herpetology from 1841 to 1847, of Herpe- 

 tology from 1847 to 1855, of Comparative Anatomy from 

 1855 to 1874. While in these later years his duties may 

 have been almost nominal, it 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, he 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 



