The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . , and his lectures,and those which he supervises before the Teachersschool of science are decidedly novel. The objectof the course is to fit teachers for teaching element-ary scien
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . , and his lectures,and those which he supervises before the Teachersschool of science are decidedly novel. The objectof the course is to fit teachers for teaching element-ary sciences in the public schools. In 1869 he waselected a Fellow of the American academy of artsand sciences, and in 1875 was nominated a memberof the National academy of science. He ranks highamong naturalists, and is a scientist in the strictestsense of the word. MOUSE, Edward Sylvester, pupil of LouisAgassiz,was born at Portland, Me., June 18,1838. Heearly showed an aptitude for science, beginning a col-lection of shells and minerals at thirteen years of age,which the Boston society of natural liistory considereditself fortunate to secure six years later. After receiv-ing a fair education in the academy at Bethel, Me., heworked for a short time as mechanical draughtsmanin the Portland locomotive works, and then as adrawer on wood in a Boston engraving house, devot- He has also edited 102 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. Z^i^^ ^, ing his spare time to zoology. His fondness for thisstudy, however, became so great that, lie decided togive his whole attention to it, and he became a pupilof Agassiz at Cambridge, where he remained till1863, acting a portion of the time as an assistant inthe Lawrence scientific school. The results of hisoriginal researches into the subject of brachiopods,which he discovered to be worms instead of mollusks,secured hira recognition from Dar-win and from the prominent sci-entists of Europe. With the ex-ception of three years (1871-74),when he filled the chair of c
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