Gray.] 104 LOctober 7, 



Throughout the later years of Prof. Wyman's life a new 

 museum has claimed his interest and care, and is indebted to 

 him for much of its value and promise. In 1866, when fail- 

 ing strength demanded a respite from oral teaching, and 

 required him to pass most of the season for it in a milder cli- 

 mate, he was named by the late George Peabody one of the 

 seven trustees of the Museum and Professorship of American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology, which this philanthropist pro- 

 ceeded to found in Harvard University ; and his associates 

 called upon him to take charge of the establishment. For 

 this he was peculiarly fitted by all his previous studies, and 

 by his predilection for ethnological inquiries. These had 

 already engaged his attention, and to this class of subjects 

 he was thereafter mainly devoted, — with what sagacity, 

 consummate skill, untiring diligence and success, his seven 

 annual Reports — the last published just before he died, — his 

 elaborate memoir on shell-heaps, now printing, and especially 

 the Archaeological Museum in Boylston Hall, abundantly 

 testify. If this museum be a worthy memorial of the found- 

 er's liberality and foresight, it is no less a monument of Wy- 

 man's rare ability and devotion. Whenever the enduring 

 building which is to receive it shall be erected, surely the 

 name of its first curator and organizer should be inscribed, 

 along with that of the founder, over its portal. 



Of Prof. Wyman's domestic life, let it here suffice to 

 record, that in Dec, 1850, he married Adeline Wheelwright, 

 who died in June, 1855, leaving two daughters ; that in Au- 

 gust, 1861, he married Anna Williams Whitney, who died in 

 February, 1864, shortly after the birth of an only and a sur- 

 viving son. 



