Overview
The Jeffries Wyman papers, 1826-1936 (inclusive), 1849-1874 (bulk) are the product of Wyman's research, teaching, professional, and publishing activities throughout his career as a naturalist and scientific researcher with positions as the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; curator of what is now the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston; and as a professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Virginia. The papers are arranged in five series: I. Research notes, 1832-1874; II. Correspondence, 1826-1909; III. Teaching records, 1849-1871; IV. Writings and publications, 1840-1874; and V. Personal papers, 1828-1936.
Dates
- Creation: 1826-1936 (inclusive)
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1849-1874
Creator
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874 (Person)
Language of Materials
Papers are predominantly in English, with some papers in French, German, and Italian.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use
The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all materials in the collection. Researchers are responsible for identifying and contacting any third-party copyright holders for permission to reproduce or publish. For more information on the Center's use, publication, and reproduction policies, view our Reproductions and Use Policy.
Extent
5 cubic feet (4 records center cartons, 1 letter size document box, 1 legal sized document box, 1 oversized box)The Jeffries Wyman papers, 1826-1936 (inclusive), 1849-1874 (bulk) are the product of Wyman's research, teaching, professional, and publishing activities throughout his career as a naturalist and scientific researcher with positions as the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; curator of what is now the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston; and as a professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Virginia. The papers are arranged in five series: I. Research notes, 1832-1874; II. Correspondence, 1826-1909; III. Teaching records, 1849-1871; IV. Writings and publications, 1840-1874; and V. Personal papers, 1828-1936.
Research notes (Series I) contains materials relating to Wyman's anatomy and physiology research, including his notes made in diaries and sketchbooks kept during his travels. The travel diaries additionally include remarks about Wyman's travels, interactions with travel companions and people he met along the way, occasional sketches of his surroundings, and notes about his family with whom he was corresponding. The sketchbooks show flora and fauna, as well as some drawings and studies featuring architecture and human subjects. Further diaries include descriptions of meetings and teaching duties, as well as his daily habits and activities and personal interactions with colleagues, peers, family and friends. Further anatomical drawings and studies from laboratory, archaeological, and other research carried out at Harvard University and the Peabody Museum are included. There are some loose research notes within the series. Subjects of the research materials include the anatomy and physiology of bees, gorillas and other apes, planaria worms, menapoma, howling monkeys, studies of bone structures in various animals, as well studies of different human anatomy and bone structure and related topics.
Correspondence (Series II) contains letters from colleagues and fellow naturalists and anatomists, as well as family and friends, though even these more personal letters are often conversationally oriented towards Wyman's studies and findings during his travels. Additionally contains correspondence from professional organizations related to scientific study, naturalism, and anatomy and physiology, such as the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Smithsonian Institute, the Society of natural History, among others. A second grouping of correspondence is between colleagues, peers, and later anatomists and his family and agents following his death, including memorials and requests for reprints or access to his personal papers. These letters are generally addressed to family members as well as a later agent for the family, Charles Sedgwick Minot.
Teaching records (Series III) includes lecture notes and drawings used for teaching classes in anatomy and physiology as the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and for a set of lectures at the Lawrence Scientific School. Topics of the lectures include comparative anatomy and physiology, skeletal structures, the reproductive, nervous, digestive, and circulatory systems, the kidneys, muscular fiber and motion, anatomical repair, as well as embryology, homologies of teeth, and viviparous fishes. Writings and publications consists of reprints of scientific journal articles by Wyman, as well as a few related articles by peers and colleagues. This includes transcripts of the formal lectures Wyman delivered at the Lowell Institute in 1840, typed considerably after the lectures' delivery and in the form of a manuscript rather than notes. There are also handwritten manuscript drafts on subjects such as the muscles of gorillas and chimpanzees, the muscles of cats and seals, the muscles of the howling monkey, threadworms, the anatomy of elephants, the bone structure and anatomy of vertebrate animals, mollusks, and similar topics. The personal papers (Series V) include biographical materials belonging to Jeffries Wyman and written after his death; photographs of Jeffries Wyman and his brother; passports; a handwritten biography of his second wife, Annie Williams Whitney Wyman; receipts for donations; and a family account book. This series also includes a handwritten description of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.
The papers are predominantly in English. Some records are in French, German, and Italian.
Biographical Note
Jeffries Wyman (1814-1874), A.B., 1833, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts and M.D., 1837, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts was the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge from 1847 to 1874 and the first curator (1866-1874) of what came to be known as the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge. He was President of the Boston Society of Natural History (1856-1870) and a councilor of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Though he graduated with a medical doctorate from Harvard Medical School, following graduation Wyman chose to focus on naturalist research, including but not limited to studies of human and comparative anatomy (such as work that compared the bodies of individuals of different races), physiological observations, paleontological and ethnological examinations of fossils, and observations of animal habits.
Jeffries Wyman was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts on 11 August 1814 to Ann Morrill Wyman and Rufus Wyman (1778-1842), the first physician at the Asylum for the Insane in Charlestown, Massachusetts (in an area that is now part of Somerville, Massachusetts; now called McLean Hospital and located in Belmont, Massachusetts) and professional partner of John Jeffries (1744-1819), after whom his son was named. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire and entered Harvard College in 1829, graduating at age nineteen in 1833. Wyman went on to attend Harvard Medical School, acting as house pupil at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts during his four years of study. He graduated with his medical doctorate in 1837. He became a demonstrator for John C. Warren (1778-1856) at Harvard Medical School (1838) and began to shift the focus of his career away from medicine towards anatomy. Wyman then became the Curator at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1839, where he delivered a series of public lectures, and remained an affiliate until 1842. During the years 1841 to 1842, he traveled to Europe to study with doctors, anatomists, scientists, and naturalists such as Richard Owen (1804-1892), P. (Pierre) Flourens (1794-1867), Francois Magendi (1783-1855), H.-M. (Henri-Marie) Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861), and H. (Henri) Milne-Edwards (1800-1885). In 1843, Wyman became a professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Virginia, a position he held until 1848. Wyman then returned to the Boston area, and on 03 April 1847 he was appointed the first Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, as this position was moved from Harvard Medical School in Boston to Harvard University in Cambridge following Warren’s resignation. Wyman returned to the Lowell Institute for a series of twelve lectures on Comparative Physiology in 1849. He was involved with the formation of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1866, when George Peabody (1795-1869) founded what became known as the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology in 1866, Wyman became its first curator.
Wyman is known for his work on topics that span human and comparative anatomy, physiological observations, paleontological and ethnological studies of fossils, observation of animal behaviors and habits, and the study of cells, muscular, and bone structures of various animals. He wrote papers on large apes and was responsible for naming the gorilla, and he studied the eye and hearing organs of fish in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. He examined the passage of nerves throughout the body and carried out various experiments relating to the impact of heated or boiling water on organic matter and living organisms. Wyman furthermore studied the development of mold and the impact of light on tadpole development. He created methods for measuring the velocity and force of ciliary movements. In the Dutch colonized islands in the Guianas, he studied various species of fish, and he traveled down the east coast of the United States and into Florida examining the natural landscape and its flora and fauna. Additionally, he was involved with the murder trial of John White Webster (1793-1850), on trial for the murder of George Parkman (1790-1849), studying bone fragments and assisting with the identification of the body of the deceased. He also studied the brain and skull of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), examining the arrangement of the spiculae of bone in the neck of the femur and making observations on the cranial structure. Wyman did not take a public stance on Charles Darwin’s (1809-1882) theory of evolution, which included the discovery that all humans descended from a common ancestor. Unlike his Harvard colleague, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), he also did not speak in favor of polygenesis (the racist idea that Black and white people are not descended from a common evolutionary ancestor). Wyman’s anatomical research tended to show that Black individuals were much more anatomically similar to white people than to apes (1). This was evident in his dissection of an enslaved boy from southern Africa named Steaurma Jantjes (also spelled as Sturman or Sturmann and Yenghis or Yanghi), who had died by suicide while being displayed on Boston Common in 1861 (2).
Throughout his career, Wyman was an active lecturer and member of professional organizations. He joined the Boston Society of Natural History in 1837 and served as its Recording Secretary (1839-1841), Curator of Icthyology and Herpetology (1841-1847), Curator of Herpetology (1847-1855), and Curator of Comparative Anatomy (1855-1874). He was appointed the Society's President and served in that role from 1856 to 1870. Wyman was selected President of the American Association for the Promotion of Science in 1857, but he did not serve in this position. He was a councilor of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Faculty of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy.
Wyman married Adeline Wheelwright in 1850, and they had two daughters, Mary (1855-1923) and Susan (1851-1907). Wheelright died in 1855. Wyman then married Anne Williams Whitney in 1861, with whom he had one son, Jeffries Wyman, Jr. (1864-1941). Whitney died in 1864. Wyman, who had suffered from pneumonia during his undergraduate study at Harvard College, dealt with pulmonary infections throughout his life. He died from a related illness on 04 September 1874 in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. His grandson, Jeffries Wyman III (1901-1995) was a molecular biologist and biophysicist and was also a professor at Harvard Medical School and later the University of Rome, Italy. Wyman’s brother, Morrill Wyman (1812-1903) was also a Harvard-educated Boston physician.
1. Lienhard, John H. "No. 1945: Jeffries Wyman." Engines of Our Ingenuity. University of Houston, 2004, https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1945.htm.
2. Drake, Jarrett Martin. "Blood at the Root." Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 8, Article 6 (2021). Accessed 01 September 2021, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol8/iss1/6.
Series and Subseries in the Collection
- I. Research notes, 1832-1874
- I.A. Diaries, 1857-1871
- I.B. Sketchbooks and anatomy drawings, 1832-1874
- I.C. Research notes, 1855-1871
- II. Correspondence, 1826-1909
- III. Teaching records, 1849-1871
- IV. Writings and publications, 1840-1874
- V. Personal papers, 1828-1936
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection has been integrated from three separate collections created by Jeffries Wyman. The first of these was H MS c12, a group of correspondence files and sketchbooks donated by Ann Wyman in 1970. Another group, previously cataloged as H MS b54, was donated by Ann Wyman prior to 1980, which included 18 volumes of diaries (H MS b54.1) and sketchbooks (H MS b54.2), as well as some additional correspondence. A final group of files include teaching records, manuscript drafts, and sketchbooks was located within the Center for the History of Medicine's collections in 1974, and was cataloged as GA 97. All three of these collections have been reprocessed and integrated into the Jeffries Wyman papers, H MS c12, described here.
Processing Information
Processed by Betts Coup, 2017 November.
The Jeffries Wyman collection came to the Center in three separate groupings: H MS c12, H MS b54, and GA 97. H MS c12 was inventoried in 1970 when it was donated to the Center of the History of Medicine; H MS b54 and GA 97 were not processed. Center Staff reprocessed and integrated these three collections into a single collection, now numbered H MS c12. In 2017, Center staff analyzed, arranged, and described the papers, and created a finding aid to improve access. Items were, where necessary, photocopied to acid-free paper. Folder titles were transcribed from the originals when possible. Processing staff discarded duplicate records and records that did not meet the collection policy of the Center for the History of Medicine.
Charlotte Lellman revised the Biographical Note and Related Materials fields in September 2021 to bring the finding aid into compliance with the Center for the History of Medicine’s Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description (2020). In particular, she focused on adding information about Wyman's attitudes and work on racialized comparative human anatomy and his dissection of Steaurma Jantjes. She also provided more detail about Wyman-associated objects in the Warren Anatomical Museum. The previous version of the finding aid is being maintained for transparency around the descriptive process.
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- Academy of Natural Sciences of New York
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- Boston Dispensary of Skin Diseases
- Boston Society for Medical Improvement
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- Boylston Medical Society, Harvard University
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- British Museum
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- Gatty, Charles H.
- Geological Society of London
- Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
- Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908
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- Hammond, William Alexander, 1828-1900
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- Harvard University
- Harvard University. Medical School
- Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Hayes, Augustus Allen, 1806-1882
- Hays, Isaac, 1796-1879
- Henderson, Thomas, 1789-1854
- Henry, Joseph, 1797-1978
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- Hubbard, Oliver Payson, 1809-1900
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
- Indian Museum, Calcutta
- Indianapolis Academy of Sciences
- Ingalls, Thomas R.
- International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology
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- Jeffries, Benjamin Joy, 1833-1915
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- Jeter, Andrew F.
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- Johnson, Carter Page, -1854
- Johnson, Walter R.
- Jones, Charles Colcock, 1831-1893
- Joy, Charles A.
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- Le Conte, John Lawrence, 1825-1883
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- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
- Lombard, Josiah Stickney
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1822
- Loring, Edward Greely, 1837-1888
- Lowell, John Amory, 1798-1881
- Lubbock, Sir John, 1834-1913
- Lyceum of Natural History--New York
- Lyell, Sir Charles, bart., 1797-1875
- Lyman, Theodore, 1833-1897
- Malherbe, Alfred, -1866
- Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899
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- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Massachusetts. Legislature. Senate
- Maupin, Socrates, 1808-1871
- Mayer, Alfred Marshall, 1836-1897
- McIlvaine, William, 1813-1867
- McQuillen, John Hugh, 1826-1879
- Medical Society of Virginia
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- Museum D'Histoire Naturelle. Paris.
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- Naphegy
- National Institute for the Promotion of Science
- New York Society of Neurology and Electrology
- Newberry, John Strong, 1822-1892
- Newell, William
- Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
- Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
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- Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893
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- Peabody, George Augustus, 1831-1929
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- Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880
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- Perkins, Henry Coit, 1804-1873
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- Phi Beta Kappa
- Phillips, John
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- Portland Society of Natural History
- Pouchet, Georges, 1833-1894
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- Putnam, Frederic Ward, 1839-1915
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- Ravenel, St. Julien, 1819-1882
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- Richardson, Joseph Gibbons, 1836-1886
- Richmond Medical College
- Roby
- Ruschenberger, William Samuel Waithman, 1807-1895
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- Satterthwaite, Thomas Edwards, 1843-1934
- Savage, Thomas Staughton, 1804-1880
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Correspondent Names for Correspondence with individuals other than Jeffries Wyman
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- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910
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- Boston Society for Medical Improvement
- Bowditch, Henry Pickering, 1840-1911
- Brown, Arthur Erwin, 1850-
- Dalton, John Call
- Davis
- Dohrn, Anton, 1840-1909
- Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
- Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930
- Everett, William, 1839-1910
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- Folsom, Charles, 1794-1872
- Gillman, Henry
- Green, John
- Hampden Sydney College
- Harvard University. Peabody Museum
- Heger, Paul, 1846-1925
- Hickman, Sydney J.
- Hochstetter, Ferdinand
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- Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
- Howell, William Henry, 1860-1945
- Huber, Gotthelf Carl, 1865-1934
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
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- Keibel, Franz, 1861-
- Kollmann, Julius Constantin Ernst, 1834-1918
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- Liebig, Justis Freiherr von, 1803-1873
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Mathews, Albert Prescott, 1871-1957
- Metcalf, Theodore, 1812-
- Michigan. University
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- Pedan, James A.
- Putnam, Frederic Ward, 1839-1915
- Regia Universita di Napoli (Giovanni Saladino, Rector)
- Retzius, Gustaf, 1842-1919
- Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. New York (A.E. Schiedt, librarian)
- Ruthven, Alexander Grant, 1882-1971
- Sala, Luigi
- Sawyer, Amos
- Stiles, Charles Wardell, 1867-1941
- Stone, John Osgood, 1813-1876
- Van Den Burgh, John, 1872-1924
- Walcott, Henry Pickering, 1838-1932
- Waldyer-Hartz, Wilhelm von, 1836-1921
- Warden, David Baillie, 1772-1845
- Warner, Augustus L.
- Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894
- Wiedersheim, Robert Ernst Edward, 1848-1923
- Wijhe, Jan Willem van, 1856-1935
- Wilder, Burt Green, 1841-1925
- Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928
- Wright, Robert Ramsay
- Wyman, Elizabeth A.
- Wyman, Morrill, 1812-1903
- Wynne, Thomas H.
- Ziegler, Heinrich Ernst
- Calull, J.L.
- Dumeril, Andre Marie Constant
- Ellis, Calvin
- Gray, Asa
- Horsford, Eben Norton
- Minot, Charles Sedgwick
- Myers, G.A.
- Philips
- Rolleston, George
- Wyman, Jeffries
- Wyman, Mary Morrill
Correspondents to whom Wyman wrote letters
- Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss
- Boston Society of Natural History
- Brown, Francis Henry
- Buckley, Samuel Botsford
- Bullard, Elizabeth L.J.
- Everett, Edward
- Gibson, Charles Bell
- Jeter, Andrew F.
- Whitney, Benjamin Duick
- Whitney, Mary
- Wyman, Ann Morill
- Wyman, Edward
- Wyman, Elizabeth A.
- Wyman, Jeffries
- Wyman, Mary (Molly) Morrill
- Wyman, Morrill, 1812-1903
- Wyman, Rufus
- Wyman, Susan
Creator
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874 (Person)
Subject
- Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 (Person)
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874 (Person)
- Harvard Medical School (Organization)
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Organization)
- Title
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874. Papers, 1826-1936 (inclusive), 1849-1874 (bulk): Finding Aid.
- Author
- Betts Coup
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- med00424
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