He applied himself to Oriental languages, but also attended the last course of lectures delivered by Adrianus Turnebus, professor of Greek, as well as those of Petrus Ramus, whose philosophical method and plan of teaching Melville later introduced into the universities of Scotland.

Ward Melville attended college at Columbia University, where he was active in the Columbia Daily Spectator and the Philolexian Society.

Robbins was born in Perth, Western Australia, and attended Melville Senior High School.

He attended Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, and was a letterman in football and lacrosse.

Fay attended Officer Candidate School and was assigned to PT boat training at Melville, Rhode Island where John F. Kennedy was his instructor.

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

Ebenezer D. Maltbie was in charge of the Academy when author Herman Melville graduated with a degree in surveying and engineering.

The large private schools in Scotland include the High School of Glasgow, The Glasgow Academy, Kelvinside Academy, St. Aloysius ' College, Hutchesons ' Grammar School, George Heriot's School, Stewart's Melville College, Dollar Academy, Strathallan School, Glenalmond College, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Academy, Robert Gordon's College, George Watson's College, Loretto School, Gordonstoun, St Leonards, and Fettes College.

Afterwards he lived at Sedan, France as professor at the Academy of Sedan, in the company of the exiled Andrew Melville, and in 1619 was in practice in Paris.

His friends at the Royal Academy such as Sir Thomas Lawrence, George Dance, Benjamin West and Joseph Farington were able to introduce him to patrons such as: John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn ; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ; Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet ; George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ; Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford ; Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst ; John ' Mad Jack ' Fuller and William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale.

It also includes Calton Hill, the shops and offices on the northern side of Princes Street, Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, the Edinburgh Playhouse, the Edinburgh Waterfront, the stretch of the Water of Leith from Dean Village to Leith Harbour, the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Western General Hospital and the private schools of Fettes College, the Edinburgh Academy, The Mary Erskine School and Stewart's Melville College and Telford College.

Luther College was founded in 1913 as Luther Academy, with classrooms and dormitory space for 32 male students in Melville, Saskatchewan.

Melville also established the Engineering Experiment Station ( EES ) near the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis laboratory was a brainchild of Melville.

As a young man, he graduated from Worcester Academy and the University of Pennsylvania, and began a twenty year career as the CEO of Melville Corporation.

Herman Melville called this species sulphur-bottom in his novel Moby-Dick due to an orange-brown or yellow tinge on the underparts from diatom films on the skin.

This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

Gray whaling in Magdalena Bay was revived in the winter of 1855-56 by several vessels, mainly from San Francisco, including the ship Leonore, under Captain Charles Melville Scammon.

Melville did not seem to be concerned about repercussions from his desertion from the Acushnet.

This is the street where Melville lived from 1863 to 1891 and where, among other works, he wrote Billy Budd.

* Physical description of Melville from his 1856 passport application

With references from Boas and Ruth Benedict, he was accepted as a graduate student by Melville J. Herskovits at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Greenland by the Polar Sea: The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.

" Melville " drew his material from his experiences, from his imagination, and from a variety of travel books when the memory of his experiences were inadequate.

The same version was published in the United States ; however, critical references to missionaries and Christianity were removed by Melville from the second US edition at the request of his American publisher.

In a scene where the Dolly is boarded by young women from Nukuheva, Melville originally wrote:

* The company's California drugstore operations were enhanced through the early 1992 $ 60 million purchase of 85 CVS Stores ( 63 CVS Pharmacy drugstores and the rights to operate 22 CVS health and beauty aid stores ) from the Melville Corporation.

", from Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

South of the western end of the island is the Fury and Hecla Strait which separates the island from the Melville Peninsula on the mainland.

Data on Amphidromous and Freshwater Fish from Central Victoria Island and Freshwater Systems Draining into Melville Sound and Elu Inlet, N. W. T., Canada.

Two large peninsulas, Boothia and Melville, extend northward from the mainland.

To the northeast, M ' Clure Strait separates the island from Prince Patrick Island and Melville Island.

" Patchen kept a diary from the age of twelve and read Dante, Homer, Burns, Shakespeare and Melville.

His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda ; Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda, as a Member of the Parliament of Bermuda ( MCP ), and as commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.

As a young adult he advocated spelling reform ; he changed his name from the usual " Melville " to " Melvil ", without redundant letters, and for a time changed his surname to " Dui ".

A later retrospective article did appear on October 6 in the same paper referring to him as " the late Hiram Melville ", but this appears to have been a typesetting error.

A bronze plaque was erected to Joseph Bell at 2 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh on 8th October 2011, marking the centenary of his death.

* War, Evil and End of History, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, ( Melville House Publishing ), October 2004, hardcover, 400 pages, ISBN 0-7156-3336-8 ; paperback, ISBN 978-0-9718659-5-2

The Melville Island settlement was officially established on 21 October, and shortly afterwards the Tamar sailed for Bombay, where she was refitted and reprovisioned.

* Sir James Melville ( 7 June 1929-22 October 1930 )

Jean-Pierre Melville, born Jean-Pierre Grumbach ( October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973 ), was a French filmmaker.

The Reverend Canon Melville Cooper Newth OBE, the eleventh and longest-serving Headmaster of St Andrew ’ s Cathedral School, died peacefully on 21 October 2004, aged 90.

Nigel Melville, former England captain, has been CEO and President of Operations of USA Rugby since October 11, 2006.

Gertrude Mary Melville née Day ( 7 October 1884 in Port Macquarie, New South Wales – 21 August 1959 in Sydney ) was the first woman elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1952.

Melville served in the sloops of war Dacotah and Wachusett from mid-1862 until late in 1864, taking part in the capture of CSS Florida in October 1864.

This land reclamation, which started in October 1954, saw the addition of of sand, much of which was dredged from Melville Water.

On 26 September, the party landed at King Cove in Melville Island to build a settlement, which was named Fort Dundas on 21 October.