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Last Name Morse

Given Name Edward Sylvester

alt. Names E. S. M. ;

Marriage Ellen Elizabeth Owen in 1863

Children 2: Edith and John

Year born 1838 in Portland, Maine, USA

Year died 1925

Place of death Salem, Massachusetts, of cerebral hemorrhage, USA

Father's occupation Congregationalist preacher Joathan Kimball Morse

Relatives Jane Seymour (mother); George Frederick Morse (brother)

Education Portland village school, academy at Conway, New Hampshire (1851), Bridgton Academy in 1854 (for carving on desks);student of ->Louis Agassiz

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for glaciologist and ichythologist ->J. Louis R. Agassiz (1807-1873) ;

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques fossil, paleontological, and ichthyological drawing ;

Sample(s) http://www.seaa-web.org/bul-rep-00b.htm ; http://www.phoenixbonsai.com/1800refs/esmorse.html ;

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Morse ; http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/morse-edward.pdf ;

Published sources AKL ; Wayman, Dorothy Godfrey: Edward Sylvester Morse: A Biography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1660a & 4684 ;

other M. was cofounder and editor of the journal American Naturalist, which includes a large number of his illustrations; since 1877 several visits to Japan.

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