known China surgeon, medical missionary ana anthropologist, died at Boston, Massachusetts, on November the age of 68. Funeral services were held at' Lawroncetown, Nova [Scotia, on November 13.
Dr, Morse was born in Lawrence: town and was graduated from Acadia University, at Wolfville, "He received his medical degree in 1902 from MoGII University, then did post-graduate work at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. 'The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society sent him to China in 1900 as a medical nuissionary. and, with other physicians, he helped found the West China' University College of Medicine and Dentistry. He came professor of anatomy and a social professor of surgery and, after 1019, "also served as dean of the Dr. Morse was the frst man to per-{form a dissection of the human body West of Hankow, when he dissected ithe bodies of two elimina Chengtu, Szechuan, in 1910, Dr. Morse ted eight anthropological expeditions into the borderland regions of West China and uncovered much valuable data. on the tribes which formerly "inhabited the area, He translated Rawling's "Landmarks and [Surface Markings of the Human Body" nto Chinese, and wrote in English "The Three Crosses ly the Purple tists" and "Chinese Medicine," volume eleven in the Clio Medica Series on the "history of medicine, "He was fellow, of the American College. of Surgesns, the American Medical Asso-elation, the Royal Geasraphical S0- rely, the Rockefeller Foundation from 41910'to 1925 and a past president the West China Border Researelt Society. Acadia honoured him. in 1025 with the dezree of Doctor of Law.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Anna Kinney; a daughter, Mr Allan B. Grunden, of Jersey" City, N. J. anda brother, Dr. TI. Rupert Morse, of Lawrencetown,
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