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When the great fire of June, 1914, was threatening every house and building in Salem, Massachusetts, Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925) was found by his would-be rescuers calmly sitting in his living-room and practicing the Solomon Islanders’ art of playing a flute with his nose. He once, years before, had kept the Governor of Satsuma waiting until nearly midnight because he preferred poking through heaps of shells on the shore to attending a chrysanthemum garden party in his honor. This eccentric, forthright Yankee character gained world-wide fame as a zoologist and as a popular exponent of Darwinism and the natural sciences. He was also famous as an artist, illustrating his books with hundreds of vivid sketches and enchanting audiences with blackboard drawings done at lightning speed with both hands simultaneously. He was an expert on Oriental ceramics: his book on the subject is still the chief authority, and his collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is the best in the world. Again, he was a great ethnologist: his books on Japan and China during the nineteenth century are classics. Finally he was a great museum builder, Agassiz’s assistant in the opening of the Museum

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Author

Wayman, Dorothy G.

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1942

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674365377

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction