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    Edward Sylvester Morse (June 18, 1838 – December 20, 1925) was an American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist. He is considered the "Father of Japanese...
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    clothing, human remains) available for archaeologists to find. Edward Sylvester Morse conducted one of the first archaeological excavations of the Omori...
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    recommended by noted biologist Edward Sylvester Morse,: 10–11  he was hired by the Japanese government to succeed Morse as professor at the Tokyo Imperial...
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    Senate Thomas Holt, architect Moses Mason, physician, congressman Edward Sylvester Morse (1838–1925), Gould Academy student and director of a predecessor...
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    Ernest Fenollosa, Kakuzo Okakura, William Sturgis Bigelow, and Edward Sylvester Morse, each of whom had spent time in Japan and admired Japanese art....
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  • Sharpey James Shaw Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly Herbert Spencer Edward Sylvester Morse Lawson Tait William Chester Tait Emily Fairbanks Talbot William...
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    1883, as the result of a collaboration between museum director Edward Sylvester Morse and Korean scholar Yu Kil-chun, who was a member of the first official...
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  • was first applied to the pottery, and the culture, by American Edward Sylvester Morse. Jōmon pottery is said by many scholars to be the oldest yet discovered...
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  • In mathematics, specifically in differential topology, Morse theory enables one to analyze the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions...
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    by lectures on Japan delivered by Edward Sylvester Morse, Bigelow traveled to Japan. Once there, he funded Morse's work and that of Ernest Fenollosa,...
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