1874.] .< 105 [Gray. 



Of his later days, of the slow, yet all too rapid progress of 

 fatal pulmonary disease, it is needless to protract the story. 

 Winter after winter, as he exchanged our bleak climate for 

 that of Florida, we could only hope that he might return. 

 Spring after spring he came back to us invigorated, thanks 

 to the bland air and the open life in boat and tent, which 

 acted like a charm; — thanks, too, to the watchful care of 

 his attached friend, Mr. Peabocly, his constant companion in 

 Florida life. One winter was passed in Europe, partly in ref- 

 erence to the Archaeological Museum, partly in hope of bet- 

 ter health; but no benefit was received. The past winter in 

 Florida produced the usual amelioration, and the amount of 

 work which Dr. Wyman undertook and accomplished last 

 summer might have tasked a robust man. There were im- 

 portant accessions to the archaeological collections, upon 

 which much labor, very trying to ordinary patience, had to 

 be expended. And in the last interview I had with him, he 

 told me that he had gone through his own museum of com- 

 parative anatomy, which had somewhat suffered in conse- 

 quence of the alterations in Boylston Hall, and had put the 

 whole into perfect order. It was late in August when he 

 left Cambridge for his usual visit to the White Mountain 

 region, by which he avoided the autumnal catarrh ; and 

 there, at Bethlehem, New Hampshire, on the 4th of Septem- 

 ber, a severe hemorrhage from the lungs suddenly closed his 

 valuable life. 



Let us turn to his relations with this Society. He entered 

 it in October, 1837, just thirty-seven years ago, and shortly 

 after he had taken his degree of Doctor in Medicine. He 

 was Recording Secretary from 1839 to 1841; Curator of 

 Ichthyology and Herpetology from 1841 to 1847, of Herpe- 



