Miscellaneous Intelligence. 399 
J. A. Telkampf; on the N. American Crustacea in the Museum of 
the Smithsonian Institution, by Wm. Stimpson. 
OBITUARY. 
Samuet Frxtey Breese Morst.—Prof. Morse died at his 
and introducing the system of electric telegraphy which bears his 
r. Morse was the eldest son of Jedidiah Morse, D.D., an 
Ww 
usual term of human experience the first choice of Mr. 
Morse after graduation was for the fine arts, which he pursued 
in London in 1811 under Benjamin West the painter, in git 
sculpture, his “ Dying Hercules,” which was crowned by the gold 
medal of the Adelphi Society of Arts of London, being pa 
a ationa 
while yet abroad was elected 
to the professorship of the literature of the arts of design in the 
invention, which were undoubtedly long before slumbering in his 
a discussion which took 
place on board the packet-ship Sully in the autumn of 1832, while . 
on his way to America, and then took on a more definite form ; and 
* This Journal, I, xxiii, 185. 
