Jeffries Wyman

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Jeffries Wyman (August 11, 1814 - September 4, 1874) was an American naturalist and anatomist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary hemorrhage.

JEFFRIES WYMAN, third son of Dr. Rufus and Anne (Morrell) Wyman, and grandson of Deacon James and Mary (Glover) Morrell, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., Aug. 11, 1814; was graduated at Harvard University in 1833, and in Medicine in 1837. In the years 1841 and 1842 he attended the medical schools in Paris, France, and studied Natural History there at the "Jardin des Plantes." In 1843 he received the appointment of Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Hampden-Sidney College, in Virginia. In 1847 he was appointed Hersey Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in Harvard College, which office he still (1866) holds. He is also Bigelow Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Lawrence Scientific School ; President of the Boston Society of Natural History ; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phila- delphia. He resides in Cambridge.
He has been twice married. First, Dec. 19, 1850, to Adaline Wheelwright, eldest daughter of William and Susan C. Wheelwright. She died June 15, 1855, leaving two children:
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