- Jeffries Wyman
Jeffries Wyman (
August 11 ,1814 -September 4 ,1874 ) was an American naturalist andanatomist , born at Chelmsford, Mass. He graduated atHarvard College in 1833 and atHarvard Medical School in 1837. He was madecurator atLowell Institute ,Boston , in 1840. After studying onEurope , he was elected in 1843professor ofanatomy andphysiology atHampden-Sydney College , Richmond,Virginia . In 1847 he became professor of anatomy at Harvard, where he remained till his death, becoming the first curator of thePeabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology there. He made extensive and valuable collections incomparative anatomy and archæology, and he published nearly 70 scientific papers. He was the president of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in 1858. His work as a comparative anatomist, a student of Native American antiquities, and as an early champion ofevolution was of the first importance. Wyman died inBethlehem, New Hampshire of apulmonary hemorrhage .His brother Dr.
Morrill Wyman was a respected Cambridge, Mass. doctor; their father Dr.Rufus Wyman was the first director of the McLean Asylum.Publication
* B. G. Wilder, "Leading American Men of Science", edited by D. S. Jordan (New York, 1910)
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