biography
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| lived:
| (1833–97)
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| biography:
| Zoologist and soldier, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard (1855) and worked under Louis Agassiz. He was one of the first trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and he pursued his studies both at home and abroad. He volunteered during the Civil War and was present at several important occasions. The letters he wrote to his wife, published as Meade's Headquarters, 1863–65, Letters of Col Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox (1922), are a valuable source for students of the Civil War. He was a member of the House of Representatives (Independent, Massachusetts, 1883–5). |
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