Late 19th Century / In steel case with glass window / Originally from Peabody Museum, Massachusetts, U.S.A / Ex-collection of the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science / Anthropology and Prehistory department, UMUT

E. S. Morse, the first professor of zoology at the University of Tokyo, was a specialist of brachiopods, but is also well known for conducting the first scientific excavation in Japan at the Omori shell mounds. Morse returned to the U.S. in 1879, but had strongly recommended that the University found a museum, which was realized as the Science Museum at Kanda. The materials exhibited here are examples of prehistoric implements, which are thought to be those donated to the University of Tokyo, in the 1880s, through Morse's efforts.