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meeting of the Female Anti-Slavery society while he was in attendance. After his wife's death in 1835, he devoted himself to assisting the poor and criminal classes. He removed to Brookline in 1844. He was president of the Boston Farm school, 1840-46; and in 1846, and subsequently during his lifetime, gave $22,500 to the state reform school at Westboro, Mass. He left in his will the sum of $50,000 to the state reform school; $10,000 to the farm school of Boston, and $10,000 the Massachusetts Horticultural society of which he was a life member. He is the author of: Three Weeks in Paris (1814); The Political State of Italy (1820); Tfie Hartford Convention (1823); Tlie Diplomacy of the United States (2 vols., 1828). He died in Brookline, Mass., July 18, 1849.

LYMAN, Theodore, naturalist, was born in Waltham, Mass., Aug. 23, 1833; son of Theodore and Mary E. (Henderson) Lyman. He was gradu- ated from Harvard college, A.B., 1855, S.B., 1858, and was married, Nov. 28, 1856, to Eliza- beth, daughter of George R. and Sarah (Shaw) Russell. He was assistant in zool- ogy at the Museum of Comparative Zool- ogy, 1860-61, and pur- sued his studies in Europe, 1861-63. He was volunteer aide with rank of lieu- tenant-colonel on the staff of Ma j. -Gen. George • G. Meade, commanding the

Army of the Poto- mac, 1863-65, partici- pating in the movements on Mine Run and Cen- treville in 1863, the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania and CJold Harbor; through the in- vestment of Petersburg; in the rout and pursuit of Lee's army, and its capture at Appomattox Court House. He was mustered out of the vol- unteer service, April 20, 1865, and returned to his home in Brookline, Mass. He was fish commis- sioner for Massachusetts, 1865-82; and made the first scientific experiments undertaken for the cultivation and preservation of food fishes by any state in the Union. He also prepared " Reports of the Commissioners on Inland Fisheries of Mas- sachusetts" (1865-82). He was a representative from the ninth Massachusetts district in the 48th congress, 1883-85; an overseer of Harvard, 1868-80 and 1881-88; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member of the Massachusetts Historical society; honorary mem- ber of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, 1872-97. He

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was president of the Boston farm school, and a trustee of the Peabody education fund, the Pea- body Museum of Archaeology, and the state re- form school. He received the degree LL.D. from Harvard in 1891, contributed to the build- ing of Memorial hall and served on the building committee. He left $10,000 to Harvard and his collection of scientific books to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He contributed articles- to scientific journals and published: Illustrated Catalogue of the Ophiuridce and Astrophytidce m the Museum of Comparative Zoology (1865); Re- port on Ophiuridce and Astrophytidce Dredged by Louis F. de Pourtales (1869); Old and New Ophiuridce and Astrophytidce of the Hassler Ex" pedition (1875); Dredging Operations of the U.S. Steamer Blake; Ophiurans (1875); Padrome of the Ophiuridce and Astrophytidce of the Challen- der Expedition (Part I., 1878; Part H., 1879); Report on the Ophiuridce Dredged by H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1878-76 (1882); Papers Relating to the Oai'vison Mob (1870). He died at Nahant, Mass., Sept. 9, 1897.

LYflAN, Theodore Benedict, fourth bishop of North Carolina and 103d in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Brighton, Mass., Nov. 27, 1815; son of the Rev. Asa and Mary (Benedict) Lyman; grandson of Willianx and Mary (Parker) Lyman, and of Aaron Benedict of Middle- bury, Conn., and a descendant of Rich- ard and Sarah (Os- borne) Lyman. He was graduated at Hamilton college, N.Y., in 1837, and at the General Theo- logical seminary, New York city, in 1840. He was ordered deacon in Christ church, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 20, 1840, and ordained priest in St. John's, Hagers- town, Md., Dec. 19, 1841, where he was rector^ 1841-51. He was rector of Trinity church, Pitts- burg, Pa., 1851-60; and during his residence in Europe, 1860-70, he declined the deanship of the General Theological seminary. New York city. He established and was rector of the American church at Florence, being also the founder of St. Paul's Within the Walls, the American chapel at Rome. Italy. He was rector of Trinity church, San Francisco, Cal.. 1870-73. and in the latter year was elected assistant bishop of North Caro- lina, and was consecrated in Christ church, Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 11, 1873, by Bishops Whit-

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