' Gray.] 9 b [October 7, 



work by the late Dr. Walker, and which led directly to its 

 large endowment with the means of success. 



But pleasant as it would be for me, as a personal friend, to 

 dwell upon the transcendent virtues of one whom I have 

 always regarded with the highest respect and most affection- 

 ate esteem, I feel it would be unbecoming to further occupy 

 your time in view of those present, who have come here with 

 their tributes of love to the memory of our dear departed 

 friend. I therefore close by inviting others to address you. 

 first calling upon Prof. Gray, who, from his great regard for 

 Prof. Wyman, has kindly prepared a notice of his life and 

 work to read on this occasion. 



ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR A. GRAY. 



When we think of the associate and friend whose death 

 this Society now deplores, and remember how modest and re- 

 tiring he was, how averse to laudation and reticent of words, 

 we feel it becoming to speak of him, now that he is gone, 

 with much of the reserve which would be imposed upon us 

 if he were living. Yet his own perfect truthfulness and nice 

 sense of justice, and the benefit to be derived from the con- 

 templation of such a character by way of example, may be 

 our warrant for reasonable freedom in the expression of our 

 judgments and our sentiments, taking care to avoid all exag- 

 geration. 



Appropriate and sincere eulogies and expressions of loss, 

 both official and personal, have, however, already been pro- 

 nounced or published ; and among them one from the gov- 

 ernors of that institution to which, together with our own 

 Society, most of Professor Wyman's official life and services 

 were devoted, — which appears to me to delineate in the few- 





