Ɛpsilon

From E. S. Morse   26 August 1879

Tokio Japan

Aug 26th 79

My dear Sir

I take the liberty of sending you some proof sheets from a Memoir of mine on the Shell Mounds of Omori Japan. It is now being published by the University of Tokio and will be out in a few weeks when I will send you a complete copy.1 I thought you would be interested in the changes which have taken place between the ancient forms and those now living in the immediate vicinity

I expect to be back in my home at Salem Massachusetts for good, in the course of six weeks.2

Knowing how busy you are I beg you will not take any of your precious time in acknowledging this.

Very faithfully yrs | Edwd S Morse

1
The proof-sheets of Morse 1879 have not been found but an offprint of the article is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
2
Morse served as professor of zoology at the Imperial University in Tokyo from 1877, and became director of the Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1880 (ANB).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12201,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12201