CHAMBERLAIN: EDWARD LYMAN Morris 601 
that reached the life and activities of young people. He always 
taught as if in the laboratory, arousing the interest of his stu- 
dents, stimulating them to seek first-hand knowledge, teaching 
them that biology was a matter of everyday life, and training 
them to think clearly and hard. During the year 1907, Mr. 
Morris resigned his position in Washington to become curator of 
natural science in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences, a position which he held at the time of his death. 
For one year, also, after the resignation of Dr. Lucas, he was 
acting curator-in-chief. This position gave him the chance to 
develop the ideas of the educative value of museum collections 
that he had long held. Believing that exhibition specimens 
should always arouse the desire for further information, he not 
only saw that the books furnishing such knowledge were close 
at hand, but insisted that every visitor should have, if he desired, 
the opportunity of personal conversation with the curator. 
In addition to professional duties, Mr. Morris found the 
time to take an active part in general scientific work, his own 
motto for such things being, ‘‘Make both tie for first place.” 
In Washington he was a member of the botanical, biological, 
and entomological societies, and of the Cosmos Club, but most 
closely identified with the Washington Biologists’ Field Club, of 
which he was a founder and leading spirit. No one who knew 
him at ‘“‘The Island” could fail to see how very close to his heart 
the success of the Club was, or ‘forget how enthusiastically he 
entered into the plans for its development. Even after leaving 
Washington he kept in close touch with all that went on at the 
Club, and never failed to revisit it when circumstances permitted. 
He had made a large collection of plants from the Club property, 
which he hoped to make the basis for a detailed catalogue. 
For years Mr. Morris’s especial pleasure had been the syste- 
matic study of the Plantaginaceae, of which he had accumulated 
a large amount of material, many species being represented by 
alcoholic as well as ordinary herbarium specimens. It was a 
source of keen regret to him that increasing duties encroached 
upon the leisure hours that he preferred to spend upon his col- 
lections. The characteristic desire for accuracy delayed the 
publication of many conclusions that had already been attained, 
