With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.

Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.

Morison's first marriage to Elizabeth S. Greene produced four children — one of whom, Emily Morison Beck, became editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

He was a visiting professor at Harvard in 1958, and became the John H. Morison Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1963.

On Robin's recommendation Morison became director of the Royal Gardens at Blois, Central France, a post which he subsequently held for ten years.

In 1660, despite inducements to make him stay in France, Morison returned to England following the Restoration and became physician to Charles II as well as his botanist and superintendent of all the royal gardens with a salary of £ 200 per annum, and a free house.

At the same time, the earl bequeathed " certain revenues " to fund a chair in botany at the university ; in 1669 Morison became the first professor of botany, a post that he held until 1683.

He was self-taught, having left school after his father abandoned his family, Morison became an editorial assistant on The Imprint magazine in 1913.

One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, " The Grand Old Man " of American history, looking the part with his " patriarchal full beard and flowing moustaches.

By 1942, the United States had become involved in World War II and, as a result, Morison became one of many celebrities who entertained American troops and their allies.

His daughter Charlotte Anne Moberly became the first principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and co-authored under the pen name " Elisabeth Morison " An Adventure ( 1911 ), in which she relates her purported encounter with the ghost of Marie-Antoinette in the gardens of the Petit Trianon in 1901.

The Junior half of Keys ( grades 5 and 6 ) was moved to Morison Public School, and the Intermediate half ( grades 7 and 8 ) joined Mackenzie, separated by name only ( though Mackenzie students are not allowed in the Keys Wing ).

When Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard history professor Samuel Eliot Morison was commissioned by President Roosevelt to prepare the fifteen-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, he relied not only on his own combat experience, but also on those records assembled in Knox's archives.

In 1938, Morison appeared in the musical The Two Bouquets, which ran for only 55 performances.

Morison made only three film appearances after her stage triumph in Kiss Me, Kate.

His father, who had made a large fortune as the inventor and proprietor of " Morison's Pills ", settled in Paris till his death in 1840, and Cotter Morison thus acquired not only an acquaintance with the French language, but a profound sympathy with France and French institutions.

Samuel Loring Morison was a government security analyst who worked on the side for Jane's, a British military and defense publisher.

On October 17, 1985, Morison was convicted in Federal Court on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of government property.

In 1985, Morison was convicted in Federal Court on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of government property, and was sentenced to two years in prison.

Samuel Loring Morison ( born October 30, 1944 ) is a former American intelligence professional, who was convicted of espionage and theft of government property in 1985, and pardoned in 2001.

Morison was charged with espionage and theft of government property.

On October 17, 1985, Morison was convicted in Federal Court on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of government property.

The Foundation of Perth 1829 by George Pitt Morison is an historically accurate reconstruction of the official ceremony by which Perth was founded.

Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Morison, already convinced of the value of personal involvement as a result of sailing experience while writing his biography of Christopher Columbus, wrote to President Roosevelt suggesting the preparation of an official history of the Navy in the war, and volunteering for the task.

Both President Roosevelt and the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox agreed, and in May 1942 Morison was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, and assigned a staff of assistants, with permission to go anywhere and to see all official records.

Harison mentioned it in his official Army history of the war ( p. 270 ) and Samuel Eliot Morison also discussed it in his official Navy history, US Naval Operations, vol.

* Samuel Loring Morison, Naval intelligence official

In 1935, four years before her official film debut, Morison made her first appearance on film in an automobile propaganda short called Wreckless.

In the preface to his Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova ( 1672 ), Morison gave a definitive statement of the principles of his method and was the first person ever to write a " monograph of a specific group of plants ", the Umbelliferae.

As Samuel Eliot Morison explained, They believed that liberty is inseparable from union, that men are essentially unequal, that vox populi of the people is seldom if ever vox Dei voice of God, and that sinister outside influences are busy undermining American integrity.

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.

It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated.

Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space.

In 1925 he designed the Perpetua typeface, with the uppercase based upon monumental Roman inscriptions, for Morison, who was working for the Monotype Corporation.

One of Abercrombie's early projects during this period was to advise Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, on the reformed spelling system he was devising for the publication of his collected essays ( later published in seven volumes by Oxford University Press, with the help of the distinguished typographer Stanley Morison, who designed the new letters ).

Professor Dennis Showalter, the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is an expert on World War II, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy, reviewer for the History Book Club, and author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, the 1992 winner of the American Historical Association's Paul Birdsall Prize.

Halsey received much criticism for his decisions during the battle, with naval historian Samuel Morison terming the Third Fleet run to the north " Halsey's Blunder ".

The courtly Hersey also pursued an unusual sideline: he operated the college's small letterpress printing operation, which he sometimes used to turn out broadsides – in 1969 printing an elaborate broadside of an Edmund Burke quote for Yale history professor and fellow residential college master Elting E. Morison.

The Reagan administration, as part of a wider campaign against leaks of information, used the prosecution of Morison as a " test case " for applying the Act to cover the disclosure of information to the press.

Following a 1998 appeal for a pardon on the part of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Bill Clinton pardoned Morison on January 20, 2001, the last day of his presidency, despite the CIA's opposition to the pardon.

Historian Samuel E. Morison wrote in 1949 that Spruance was subjected to much criticism for not pursuing the retreating Japanese, and allowing the retreating Japanese surface fleet to escape.

Buell quotes Spruance speaking with Morison: " As a matter of tactics I think that going out after the Japanese and knocking their carriers out would have been much better and more satisfactory than waiting for them to attack us, but we were at the start of a very important and large amphibious operation and we could not afford to gamble and place it in jeopardy.

Dr. Warwick Morison, MD, chairman of The Skin Cancer Foundation ’ s Photobiology Committee and Professor of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins University said, “ The EWG has their own system for evaluating things which is nothing more than junk science .”

Commager and his co-author Samuel Eliot Morison received vigorous criticism from African American intellectuals and other scholars for their very popular textbook The Growth of the American Republic, first published in 1930.

( Although Morison was responsible for the textbook's controversial section on slavery and references to the slave as " Sambo ," and although Commager was the junior member of the writing team when the book was first published and always deferred to Morison's greater age and academic stature, Commager has not been spared from charges of racism in this matter.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve ( July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976 ) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable.

Morison was criticized by some African-American scholars for his treatment of American slavery in early editions of his book The Growth of the American Republic, which he co-wrote with Henry Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenburg.

He came from Scotland with his family in 1852, on the Hudson's Bay Company ship Norman Morison, to establish a farm for the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company.