Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — A Remarkable Collector. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Collector.

A boy in Portland, Me., many year* ago, was deeply interested in collections, and after taking up several things, minerals, stamps, and the like, he settled down in making a collection of shells. At seventeen he had developed such keenness of observation as to discover a new speoies of shell, and presented a paper before the Boston Society of Natural History on his discovery. In a few months he again discovered a new species that had been classified as the young of a known species. A great English naturalist visiting this country was taken to visit this boy and see his collection of shells. He was so interested that on his return to Boston he spoke of the collection to Professor Agassiz, who invited the collector to Harvard as a special student. That boy is known to the world as Professor Morse. He went to Japan as Professor SI Zoology in the University of Tokio, and while in Japan began studying the beautiful pottery of that artietic nation, until he had become an authority, and was made judge at the Chicago Exposition. Professor Morse attributes his knowledge of Japanese pottery to the habits of close inspection acquired in his boyhood when making his collection of shells. —[The Outlook.