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England Conservatory of Music for ten years, president of its alumni association for many years, and a founder of the American Guild of Organists. He was musical editor of the Ply- mouth Hymnal and editor of the Church Organist (2 vols., 1893-1898) ; Tlie Junior Church Organist (1895); The Contemporary Organist (1893); March Album for the Organ (1894) ; Wellesley Collection for Female Voices (1882), and A Collection of Short Anthems (1901). In 1901 he became direc- tor of music at Dartmoutli college.

MORSE, Edward Sylvester, naturalist, was born in Portland, Maine, June 18, 1838 ; son of Jonathan Kimball and Jane Seymore (Becket) Morse ; grandson of Thomas and Priscilla (Kim- ball) Morse and of Th9mas and Abigail (Dyer)

a' Becket, and a de- scendant of Anthony Morse, of Marlbor- ough, Wiltshire, En- gland, who immi- grated to America from Southampton in the ship James in 1635, was made free- man in Massachusetts colony, May 25, 1636, and settled in New- ^ ^SS^^SMSIf^l^C '^ bury. He attended f/^ Bridgton academy,

'c? P 1/1 \^,^;l^ Maine, procured a

lyi^ ^ practical training as

a draughtsman in the Portland locomotive works and as a designer on wood in Boston, Mass., and devoted him- self to the study of natural history. He studied under Professor Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., and served as his assistant in the Lawrence Scientific school, 1859-62. He was married, June 18, 1863, to Ellen Elizabeth, daughter of George and Ellen Louisa (Merrill) Owen, of Portland, Maine. He removed to Salem, Mass., in 1866, where he aided in establisliing and editing The American Natur- alist, and was also a founder and one of the curators of the Peabody Academy of Science. He was professor of comparative anatomy and zoology in Bowdoin college, 1871-74, and a uni- versity lecturer at Harvard, 1872-73. He con- tinued his biological investigations in Salem, 1873-77 ; was professor of zoology in the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan, 1877-80, and re- organized the department, laid the foundation for the collection in the Imperial Museum, and established a zoological station in the Bay of Yeddo. His investigations in Japan determined the cannibal nature of the inhabitants of Japan before the Ainos. He also made a large and valuable collection of pottery, which he placed in

the museum at Salem. He made a third visit to Japan in 1882, and later visited Europe. On his return to America his collection of Japanese pottery was purchased by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He was made keeper of the Japanese pottery at the nmseum, and under his supervision large additions were made and a complete cata- logue, the labor of twenty years, prepared and published in 1901. He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1868 ; of the National Academy of Sciences in 1876 ; vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1876, and president in 1885 ; and a member of the Boston Society of Natural History ; Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. ; American Society of Naturalists, of Morphologists, of Anthropologists ; American Oriental Society ; American Antiquarian Society, and other im- portant learned societies, both American and foreign. He also received the Japan decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1898. He made extended investigations in zoology, archaeology and ethnology, and published valuable results. He lectured throughout the United States. He invented an apparatus for utilizing the sun's rays in heating and ventilating apartments, and for introducing fresh air into heated rooms. He re- ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Bowdoin in 1871, and the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1892. He contributed to scientific periodicals, and is the author of : First Book in Zoology (1875); Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings (1885); both of which were illustrated by himself and translated into German and Japanese ; and Cata- logue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in the Museum of Fine Ai^ts, Boston (1901).

MORSE, Elijah Adams, representative, was born near South Bend, Ind., May 25, 1841 ; son of the Rev. Abner and Hannah (Peck) Morse. He removed to Massachusetts with his parents in 1852, was educated in the public schools of Sherborn and Holliston, Mass., the Boylston school in Boston, and at Onondaga academy, N.Y. He began to manufacture stove polish in 1856, from a recipe given him by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, (q.v.). He enlisted in the 4th Massachusetts volunteer infantry as a private in 1861, served in the command of Gen. B. F. Butler in Virginia and under General Banks in Louisiana, and was taken prisoner in the capture of Brashear City, La., Jan. 23, 1863. He resumed the manufacture of stove polish with his brother Abner Leland Morse, at Canton, Mass., and was sole proprietor from 1888. He was a representative in the general court in 1876 ; state senator 1886-87, and a member of the council of Governor Ames in 1888. He was a representative in the 5l8t, 52d, 53d and 54th congresses from the twelfth Massachusetts district, 1889-97, and served as