John Gottlieb Morris (1803–95)

Clergyman and entomologist. Lutheran minister in Baltimore, 1826–60 and 1867–73. Librarian of the Peabody Institute, 1860–7. Taught at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, and built up specimen collections there. Founding member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848, and later chairman of the entomology subsection. Lectured on natural theology. Published a catalogue and the first part of a synopsis of North American Lepidoptera in 1860 and 1862.