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Morse (EDWARD SYLVESTER American)

EDWARD SYLVESTER, American naturalist and Orientalist; born in Portland, Me., in 1838. Graduated from Harvard and taught zoölogy and comparative anatomy at Bowdoin, 1871-1874, and at Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan, 1877-1880. During this latter period he acquired a profound knowledge of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. Now President Boston Society of Natural History. Notable among his works are "First Book in Zoölogy" (1875); "Early Races of Man in Japan" (1879); "Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes" (1902); and "Mars and Its Mystery" (1906).