Numerous newspaper testimonials attesting to Morse's skill as a lecturer of natural history. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer, and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Includes testimonial in German. See also Goodman #228 (973 C683, no. 497).; Item call number: 920 Pam., no. 349.