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Emseppine Tissues.—At the Queckett Club wax was spoken of 
as the chosen material for embedding tissues preparatory to cut- 
ting thin sections. Dr. Matthews preferred paraffine to beeswax. 
Dr. George Hoggan, however, considered carrot preferable to 
wax, and elder pith better than either. 
Gircerine Mountine. — According to Dr. George Hoggan, gly- 
cerine is used almost universally for mounting in France. A little 
- paraffine is run around the edge of the cover-glass, and a solution 
of sealing wax painted over it. 
NOTES. 
Proressor JEFFRIES Wyman, of Cambridge, died suddenly at 
Bethlehem, N. H., on September 4th. For many years Professor 
Wyman had been in delicate health and obliged to spend the win- 
ter months in Florida, while the heat of summer was avoided by 
excursions to the mountains, and it was hoped that with the great 
care he was taking he would be spared for many years to come; 
especially did this seem probable from his apparently restored 
condition on his return from Florida last spring, when he seemed 
to have renewed vigor for the labors before him, and commenced 
to put the material he had collected during his Florida trips in 
order for publication. This was so far advanced that at the time 
of his decease he was engaged in printing his memoir upon the 
Shell-mounds of Florida, a work that it is greatly to be hoped was 
So far completed in manuscript as to ensure its publication, as it 
Will undoubtedly exhibit the thoroughness and cautiousness with 
Which his investigations were made. 
fessor Wyman was born in Chelmsford, Mass., August 11, 
1814. He graduated at Harvard in the class of 1833, and four 
years after received his degree of M.D. He then passed two 
Years of study in Europe, and soon after returning to this country 
“cepted the position of Professor of Anatomy at the Hampden 
Sidney College of Virginia, which place he held until 1847, when 
accepted the Hersey Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology 
at Harvard, which position he held at the time of his decease. 
He was one of the original Trustees, appointed by Mr. Peabody, 
of the Peabody Museum of American Ethnology and Archeology, 
and had from the first held the position of Curator of that Mu- 
seum which owes so much to his care and labors. He always 
took an active part in the Boston Society of Natural History, and 
