Jeffries Wyman

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Jeffries Wyman (August 11, 1814 - September 4, 1874) was an American naturalist and anatomist, born at Chelmsford, Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1833 and at Harvard Medical School in 1837. He was made curator at Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1840. After studying on Europe, he was elected in 1843 professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Virginia. In 1847 he became professor of anatomy at Harvard, where he remained till his death, becoming the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology there. He made extensive and valuable collections in comparative anatomy and archæology, and he published nearly 70 scientific papers. He was the president of the American 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 of evolution was of the first importance. Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary 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.

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• B. G. Wilder, Leading American Men of Science, edited by D. S. Jordan (New York, 1910)

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.