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seum, and lectured on elementary and systematic zoology 
and entomology. During the first part of this period he 
attended the summer school of the Marine Biological Labo- 
ratory at Woods Hole, took a long summer course in 
entomology at Cornell University under Professor J. H. 
Comstock, and made extensive collections of New England 
insects, paying particular attention to the Orthoptera and 
Odonata, in which orders he discovered and described many 
new species. 
In 1893 Mr. Morse married Miss Annie McGill of Dover. 
They lived in Sherborn until 1900, and then moved to 
Wellesley. 
In 1897, with the encouragement of Mr. S. H. Scudder, 
Mr. Morse undertook a summer’s trip to the Pacific Coast 
to collect the Orthoptera of that region. He returned with 
several thousand specimens including representatives of 
many new species most of which were described by Mr. 
Scudder. 
In 1901, at the request of Professor Alpheus Hyatt, he 
reorganized the instruction in zoology of the Teachers’ 
School of Science of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
combining a series of field trips each spring and fall with a 
winter term of laboratory work, in a four year course. This 
was successfully conducted for two periods of four years, 
each of which included a year of entomology. The purpose 
of these lessons was to equip the teacher of biology in sec- 
ondary schools with a practical as well as theoretical knowl- 
edge of the subject. Their success was attested by the 
numbers which attended and the affection and loyalty of the 
students. 
In 1903 and again in 1905, Mr. Morse was appointed 
Research Assistant by the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 
ton and awarded a fund to be expended in the study of the 
Orthoptera of the southern United States. With this assist- 
ance he made two field trips covering the region from Vir- 
ginia to Texas, as a result of which he wrote two reports on 
the grasshopper fauna and its ecology. 
During a portion of the summer vacations from 1909 to 
1912, Mr. Morse taught natural history to the boys, girls, 
and teachers of Woodstock, Vermont, under the patronage of 
Miss Elizabeth Billings of that town, and then, at her sug- 
