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small galvanic battery. He pointed out some means as likely to serve for the purpose mentioned, by sketches, some of which I have seen in Dr. Jackson's pocketbook.
Arrived at New York, Morse endeavoured to gain his livelihood, as had been the case formerly, by painting portraits.
He being now always called Professor, most persons believe that he is a professor of natural philosophy, or some other branch of natural science, but this is not the case.
In 1835 he got the title of "Professor of the Literature of the Arts of Design." It was supposed that he might, in
the so-called University of the city of New York, where he was then lodged, lecture on that subject, but he has never, as I know from himself, given one single lecture thereon to pupils.
As his occupation in painting portraits, ever since his return from Europe in 1832, hardly produced him the means of supporting himself, he, towards the end of 1835, after Baron Schilling's exhibition of his telegraph at Bonn, undertook to try to arrange something for signalising by means of electro-magnetic action, of the possibility of which Dr. Jackson had informed him, but his trials re-
