Jeffries Wyman

See also: Wyman (homonymy)

Jeffries Wyman is a Médecin, a anthropologist and a American Naturaliste , born the August 11th 1814 with Chelmsford, Massachusetts and dead the September 4th 1874 with Bethlehem (New Hampshire).

It makes its studies at the medical school of Harvard and obtains its title of doctor in 1837. It is by the lesson of the famous surgeon John Collins Warren (1778-1856) that he discovers the Comparative anatomy. Of 1841 - 1842, it comes to study the comparative anatomy and the Natural history with Paris and London where it follows the courses of Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892).

He becomes off member of the Boston Society Natural History in 1837 and will take an active part all his life in his activities.

He is preserving, of 1839 with 1842, with the Lowell Institute. He teaches the anatomy and physiology initially in Hampden-Sidney College (1843-1848) then in Harvard (1847-1874). He starts to carry out a natural history museum devoted to the comparative anatomy starting from his own collection. This one will be installed in the new building, Boylston Hall in Harvard.

It also obtains the post of professor of Archéologie and Ethnologie in 1866 and founds a museum of ethnology. He is the first conservative of the Peabody Museum off Archaelogy and Ethnology.

He frequently travels and goes in the Labrador in 1849, with the Surinam in 1857, Argentine in 1858 and eight times in Florida of 1852 with 1874 like in Europe in 1853 and 1870.

He is the author of 200 articles mainly published in the American Journal off Science and the American Naturalist . He is famous to have described the Gorille starting from a brought back specimen of Africa by Thomas Staughton Savage (1804-1880).

Wyman is regarded as a model of scientist and contributes, with Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) and Asa Gray (1810-1888), to do of Harvard one of better research centres of the the United States of America.

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