16 Facts About Jeffries Wyman

Jeffries Wyman was an American anatomist, curator, and professor.

Jeffries Wyman was the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and taught anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1874.

Jeffries Wyman graduated Harvard College in 1833 and Harvard Medical School in 1837.

Jeffries Wyman was made curator at Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1839 and remained affiliated there until 1842.

In 1847, Jeffries Wyman became Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard College, where he remained until his death.

Jeffries Wyman was the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, holding that position until 1866.

Jeffries Wyman was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1868.

Jeffries Wyman was the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1858.

Jeffries Wyman's recognized authority as a comparative anatomist caused the coroner, Jabez Pratt, to call upon him to examine and testify about bones found in a furnace in November 1849.

Jeffries Wyman cataloged them and noted that the fragments belonged to a single body; his testimony regarding the jawbone contributed to the belief that the bones belonged to Parkman.

Jeffries Wyman testified about the alleged bloodstains found on pantaloons and slippers belonging to Webster.

Jeffries Wyman wrote to Darwin agreeing that "progressive development is a far more probable theory than progressive creations".

Jeffries Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary hemorrhage on September 4,1874.

In 1978, the Peabody Museum published Dear Jeffie, a collection of letters and sketches that Jeffries Wyman had written to his son from 1866 to 1874 when he was doing fieldwork in the states and abroad.

Jeffries Wyman's brother Morrill Wyman was a respected Cambridge doctor.

Jeffries Wyman's grandson, named Jeffries Wyman, was a molecular biologist, biophysicist, and professor at Harvard.