WYTHE, Joseph Henry, physician, born in Manchester, England, 19 March, 1822. He removed to this country in 1835, was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1842, but decided to study medicine. He was graduated at the Pennsylvania medical college in 1853, and began to practise in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, where he was for three years surgeon to the Beaver Meadow collieries. In 1862-'3 he served as surgeon of United States volunteers, organizing Camp Parole hospital, Alexandria, Virginia After the war he removed to the west, and in 1865-'9 was president of Willamette university, Oregon, organizing the medical department of that institution, and, having again united with the conference, preached in the Methodist Episcopal church. He subsequently settled in San Francisco, California, and became professor of microscopy and histology in the Medical college of the Pacific. He has published many professional papers, and is the author of "The Microscopist" (Philadelphia, 1850); " Curiosities of the Microscope" (1852) ; "Physician's Pocket Doseand Prescription-Book" (1852); "Agreement of Science and Revelation" (1883) ; "Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology" (New York, 1883); and "The Science of Life" (1884).