MORIER 



the capture of 10,000 pri- 

 MNNM and .".ii /i i in, and they M* 

 tainly intlii-ted mi their opponents 

 losses larger than they themselves 

 .i.imlV Guerre aur 

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 I '.1 17 L'lt. 



Morier, JAMKS JUSTINIAN 

 ;.-. 1780-1849). British diplom- 

 atist, traveller, and novelist. 

 Member of a 

 family of diplo- 

 matists, he was 

 born at Smyr- 

 na, held an ap- 

 pointment at 

 the Persian 

 court, wrote 

 books on his 

 travels in Per- 

 J. J. Morier, $ia, Armenia, 



British diplomatist an d Asia Minor, 

 Afi.r w. Bozaii anda delightful 

 Oriental romance, The Adventures 

 of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, 1824. 

 He died at Brighton, March 19,1849. 

 Morier, Sn: ROBERT BURNETT 

 DAVID (1826-93). British diplo- 

 matist. Born in Paris, March 31, 

 1826, he was educated at Balliol 

 College, Oxford, entered the public 

 service, and in 1853 was sent as 

 attache to Vienna. There, and in 

 later appointments to various Ger- 

 man courts, he became a close 

 student of German politics. In 

 1876 Morier left Germany on his 

 appointment as minister to Lisbon, 

 moving thenco to Madrid, 1881-84. 

 In the latter year he became 

 ambassador to Russia. He died 

 Nov. 16, 1893. Knighted in 1882, 

 he was made G.C.M.G. in 1886. 



Morike, EDUARD (1801-75). 

 German poet. He was born at Lud- 

 wigsburg, Wurttemberg, Sept. 8, 

 1804, and had already published a 

 novel, Maler Nolten, 1832, when in 

 1834 he became pastor at Clever- 

 sulzbach, Wurttemberg. In 1838 

 his Poems won him fame. In 1843, 

 owing to ill-health, he resigned his 

 pastorate, and was professor of 

 German literature at Stuttgart, 

 1851-06. He died June 4, 1875. 



Morillo, PABLO (1778-1837). 

 Spanish soldier. Born May 5, 1778, 

 he fought against Napoleon, and 

 in 1815 was sent with an army to S. 

 America to reduce the rebels to 

 obedience. In Colombia and Vene- 

 zuela he acquired a sinister reputa- 

 tion by his cruelties. Ho se- 

 cured possession of Cartagena and 

 Bouota, but afterwards was de- 

 feated by Bolivar and returned to 

 Spain in 1820. In 1823 he sub- 

 mitted to the French and was 

 exiled, but in 1832 he was again 

 in Spain, fighting against the Car- 

 hsK He died July 27, 1837. 



Morin. Name of two small 

 rivers in France. The Grand Morin 

 joins the Marne near Esbly, and 



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tin- IVtit Murin rising in the 

 marshes of St. Gond, N. of Fere- 

 rhampennise ji.ins the Marne at La 

 Ferto-sous-Jouarre. Both were 

 M.nnnent in the Great War. 



N.I .Maine, I '.at ties of the. 



Morina. Genus of pm m; . 

 herbs of the natural order Dipsa- 

 ceae, natives of Asia. They have 

 long, slender, spiny-toothed und 

 opposite leaves, and tubular dowers 

 in whorls above the upper leaves. 

 In the most frequently cultivated 

 species, M. lortgijolia, they are at 

 first white, then pink, later crim- 

 son. In M . coultenana they are pale 

 yellow. 



Morioka. Town of Japan, in 

 Honshu. An island town, on the 

 N.E. rly., 330 m. from Tokyo, it is 

 the prefectural capital of Iwate 

 on the banks of the KitakamL It 

 contained in feudal times the seat 

 of the Nambu family ; Nambu- 

 fuji, or Iwate-san, lies 22 m. to the 

 N.VV. It is the centre of an 

 agricultural dist. noted for its horse 

 rearing. Textiles and hardware 

 are the chief industrial products. 

 Pop. 44,000. 



Moriscos. Name given to the 

 Moors in Spain after their con- 

 quest in 1492. After various 

 measures of persecution and re- 

 striction of rights, notably between 

 1500-25 and under Philip II in 

 1568, they were finally expelled 

 from Spain under Philip III in 

 1609-10, with the exception of 

 those who had become Christians, 

 and of the children under four, 

 who were retained and baptized. 

 See Moors ; Spain : History. 



Morison, JAMES AUGUSTUS 

 COTTER (1832-88). British author. 

 Born in London, April 20, 1832, 

 he passed his childhood in France. 

 He was educated at Highgate 

 School and Lincoln College, Ox- 

 ford, and became associated with 

 the Positivists. He wrote much 

 for The Saturday Review and other 

 periodicals, but ample means made 

 it unnecessary for him to seek a 

 career. His published books in- 

 clude The Service 

 of Man, an argu- F~ '"" 

 ment for Positiv- < 

 ism ; a Life of S. 

 Bernard, 1863 ; 

 Lives of Gibbon, 

 1878, and Mac- 

 aulay, 1882. He 

 died Feb.26, 1888. 



Morison, ROB- 

 ERT (1620-83). 

 Scottish botanist. 

 Born at Aber- 

 deen, he was edu- 

 cated at the uni- 

 versity there, 

 and was intended 

 for the ministry, 

 but abandoned 



MORLAIX 



Morina. Foliage and flower whorls 

 o! M. longilolia. Inset, single flower 



that career to serve against the 

 Covenanters. Dangerously wounded 

 at the battle of the Brigg of Dee, 

 he fled to Paris, studied botany 

 and zoology, and took a medical 

 degree at Angers. About 1650 he 

 received an appointment hi the 

 household of the duke of Orleans as 

 one of his physicians and helped in 

 the oversight of his gardens at 

 Blois. He crossed to England with 

 Charles II, who made him his senior 

 physician and botanist. He became 

 professor of botany at Oxford hi 

 1669, and died Nov. 10, 1683. His 

 work in identifying genera and 

 species made him one of the 

 greatest pioneers in classification. 



Mori sot, BERTHS MARIE PAUL- 

 INE (1841-95). French painter. 

 Born at Bourges, Jan 14, 1841, 

 she studied under Oudinot, with 

 whom she painted landscape. 

 Later she mot Manet, painted 

 figure subjects under his direction, 

 and married his brother Eugene in 

 1874. An exhibitor at the Salon 

 from 1864, she joined the Impres- 

 sionists and exhibited at their first 

 exhibition hi 1874. The finest ex- 

 ample of her beautiful art, A Young 

 Girl at a Ball, is in the Luxembourg. 

 She died March 2, 1895. 



Morlaix. Town of France, in 

 the dept. of Finistere. It lies on 

 the river Morlaix, formed by tho 

 streams J a riot and Qucffieul, 37 m. 



Morlaix, France. Halt-umbered houses, dating frc 

 the 18th century, in the market place 



