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spring; and during these months the milder climate of 

 Richmond was even then desirable. He discharged the 

 duties of the chair most acceptably for five sessions, until, in 

 1847, he was appointed to succeed Dr. Warren as Hersey 

 Professor of Anatomy in Harvard College, the Parkman 

 professorship in the Medical School in Boston being filled 

 by the present incumbent, Dr. Holmes. Thus commenced 

 Prof. "Wy man's most useful and honorable connection as a 

 teacher with the University, of which the President and 

 Fellows speak in the terms I have already recited. He began 

 his- work in Holden Chapel, the upper floor being the lecture- 

 room, the lower containing the dissecting room and the anat- 

 omical museum of the College, with which he combined'his 

 own collections and preparations, which from that time for- 

 ward increased rapidly in number and value under his in- 

 dustrious and skillful hands. At length Boylston Hall was 

 built for the anatomical and the chemical departments, and 

 the museum, lecture and working-rooms were established 

 commodiously in their present quarters; and Prof. Wyman's 

 department assumed the rank and the importance which it 

 deserved. Both human and comparative anatomy were 

 taught to special pupils, some of whom have proved them- 

 selves worthy of their honored master, while the annual 

 courses of lectures and lessons on Anatomy, Physiology, and 

 for a time the principles of Zoology, imparted highly valued 

 instruction to undergraduates and others. 



In the formation and perfecting of his museum — the first 

 of the kind in the country, arranged upon a plan both physi- 

 ological and morphological — no pains and labors were 

 spared, and long and arduous journeys and voyages were 



made to contribute to its riches. In the summer of 1849, — 



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