Edward S Morse, an American naturalist, born in Portland, Me., June 18, 1838. Ho prepared himself for a mechanical engineer, and spent several years as a draughtsman in the Portland locomotive works, during which time In- studied zoology. In 1859 he became connected with the museum of natural historv at Cambridge under Agassiz, and in 1807 with the Boston society of natural historv as curator of mollusca; and he was one of the first officers of the Peabody academy at Salem, where he has long resided. In 1868 he was made a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and in 1871 received the degree of Ph. D. from Bowdoin college, where until 1873 he was professor of comparative anatomv and zoology. In 1872 he was elected lecturer on zoology at Harvard college. Prof. Morse has been very successful as a public lecturer history. His principal papers have been on the "Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine," "A Classification of Mollusca, based on the Pnnciple of Cephalization," "On the Land Slides in the Vicinity of Portland, Me.,"

"On the Iarsus and Carpus of Birds," "On the Systematic Position of the Brachiopoda " and " On the Embryology of Terebratulina," which have appeared in the publications of the Boston society of natural history, the Portland society of natural history, the Essex institute at Salem, and the New York lyceum of natural history. He has endeavored to show that the relations of the brachiopoda are with the chse-topod worms, and not with the mollusca, where they have heretofore been placed.