Apparently, when Selys died he had amassed considerable collection material from all over Europe and from the New World. Georg Ulmer described many species of Trichoptera from this collection in 1907, but the metadata provided for many type specimens is very thin.
A series of caddisflies were described from the type locality "Morris, Georgia". I believe this to be an error (these specimens were likely to have been collected before 1900, in order to have made their way to Belgium to be deposited in this collection, and Morris, GA was not incorporated until 1911).
I think that it is possible that the correct locality would be "Morrison Station, Georgia", which is a slightly better fit to the known geographic distribution of the species Ulmer described from this location.
I have tried with very little luck to find any insect specimens of any order that were collected from "Morris" or "Morrison Station" Georgia. I have been unable to find any North American collectors contributing Georgia material to Selys from this time period. He was known to purchase material from commercial collectors, and that may be the provenance of my specimen. At the very least, clarifying some of the murky details around this question would greatly help me in understanding whether I should pursue this further. Thanks for reading this far!
As I mentioned in my email to you, I believe the specimen was almost certainly collected by Herbert Knowles Morrison (1854-1885). Morrison was a professional collector, who explored Georgia in 1876, later returning to the southern US where he married and resided in North Carolina for the remainder of his life. He sold specimens to many entomologists worldwide.
Moreover, there is an established connection between Morrison and Selys. For example, Selys described the dragonfly Ophiogomphus morrisoni in Morrison's honor in 1879, from specimens in his own collection. In the paper in which he describes O. morrisoni, Selys writes, "Three of these species were among the objects collected in 1878 in the territory of Nevada by Mr. Morrison, the tireless traveling entomologist who, for several years, has successively explored with rare intelligence the most interesting and least known regions of the United States" (translated from French). In the volumes Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/107088) there are a number of species attributed to Morrison in Sely's collection, including some from Georgia.
I strongly suspect that the reference to "Morris." is an abbreviation for Morrison.
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