Jeffries Wyman - Colleagues

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In addition to studying with Richard Owen in London in 1842, Wyman also attended lectures by Achille Valenciennes, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, and Etienne Serres in Paris. At Harvard, his colleagues included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Asa Gray, and Louis Agassiz. He also with American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage first scientifically described Gorillas. Holmes also testified in the Parkman-Webster Murder Case. After Wyman's death, his former student Burt G. Wilder eulogized him as "regarded by all as the highest anatomical authority in America, and the compeer of Owen, Huxley, and Gegenbauer in the Old World."