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est words the truest outlines of his character. In it the 

 President and Fellows of Harvard University "recall with 

 affectionate respect and admiration the sagacity, patience 

 and rectitude which characterized all his scientific work, his 

 clearness, accuracy and conciseness as a writer and teacher, 

 and the industry and zeal with which he labored upon the 

 two admirable collections which remain as monuments of his 

 rare knowledge, method and skill. They commend to the 

 young men of the University this signal example of a char- 

 acter modest, tranquil, dignified and independent, and of a 

 life simple, contented and honored." 



What more can be or need be said ? It is left for me, in 

 compliance with your invitation, Mr. President, to say some- 

 thing of what he was to us, and has done for us, and to put 

 upon record, for the use of those who come after us, some 

 account of his uneventful life, some notice, however imper- 

 fect, of his work and his writings. I could not do this with- 

 out the help of friends who knew him well in early life, 

 and of some of you who are much more conversant than I 

 am with most of his researches. Such aid, promptly ren- 

 dered, has been thankfully accepted and freely used. 



Our associate's father, Dr. Rufus Wyman, — born in Wo- 

 burn, graduated at Harvard College in 1799, and in the latter 

 part of his life Physician to the McLean Asylum for the In- 

 sane, — was a man of marked ability and ingenuity. Called 

 to the charge of this earliest institution of the kind in New 

 England at its beginning, he organized the plan of treatment 

 and devised the excellent mechanical arrangements which 

 have since been developed, and introduced into other estab- 

 lishments of the kind. His mother was Ann Morill, daughter 



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