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him at work. They said to him in effect, " We do not want the re- 

 ligion, nor the morality, nor the politics of your people, but we want 

 your science." Prof. Morse was accordingly induced to accept the 

 chair of zoology in the Imperial University of Tokio. He established 

 a zoological station at the Bay of Yeddo, and made large collections 

 for the museum at Tokio, besides a great number of specimens for ex- 

 chance with American societies. He also discovered the traces of 

 early man in Japan, found a large quantity of ancient pottery, and, in 

 an address before the Asiatic Society at Tokio, he communicated the 

 results of these researches. 



Prof. Morse's most important contributions to science have been 

 his investigations on the Brachiopoda, which he has pursued with 

 indefatigable industry, going deeply into the question of their struct- 

 ure and affinities. By the help of embryological analysis he has 

 thrown new and important light upon their systematic position in the 

 scheme of invertebrate life. He maintains the view that the Brachio- 

 pods must be removed from the division of mollusks and classed with 

 the worms. These ideas have been adopted by many leading natu- 

 ralists both here and in Europe. 



Prof. Morse has made all his expeditions for scientific investigation 

 at his own private expense, and, not being a man of wealth, he has 

 been compelled to lecture much during the winter season to get the 

 means of carrying on his researches during the summer. He has 

 given courses of lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston, the 

 Peabody Institute of Baltimore, and the' Cooper Institute of New 

 York, and has also given courses and single lectures in all the princi- 

 pal cities in the Northern and Western States. Of his. rare qualities 

 as a popular scientific lecturer, the thoroughness of his information, 

 his vivid, free, and forcible style as a speaker, and his great skill of 

 rapid delineation upon the blackboard, we have previously spoken. 



Prof. Morse is a man of irrepressible activity and an inexhaustible 

 flow of spirits, genial and hearty in manners, a fluent and fertile talker, 

 a copious story-teller, a lover of music, and passionately fond of chil- 

 dren. He is a patient, assiduous worker, and has contributed largely 

 to the proceedings of scientific societies and to scientific periodicals. 

 The following are among the most important of his publications : 



1. "Description of New Species of Helix" {Helix asteriscus), (Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. vi., 1857, p. 1). 



2. Description of New Species of Helix " {Helix milium), (Proceedings of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. vii., 1859, p. 1). 



3. " The Haemal and Neural Ptegions of Brachiopoda " (Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, vol. is., 1862, pp. 3). 



4. " On the Normal Position of Cephalopods " (Proceedings of the Portland 

 Society of Natural History, vol. i., 1863). 



5. "On the Occurrence of Rare Helices in Ancient Shell-Heaps" (Proceed- 

 ings of the Portland Society of Natural History, vol. i., 1863). 



6. " Synopsis of the Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusks of Maine " (published 

 by the Author. 1864, pp. 4). 



