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With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.
The Foundation of Perth 1829 by George Pitt Morison is an historically accurate reconstruction of the official ceremony by which Perth was founded.
Morison and a number of other historians claim that Marshall's decision was an indirect cause of the Second World War.
It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated.
The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times.
Traditionally the inventor was thought to be Stanley Morison, and it made its debut in the Oct. 3, 1943 issue of The Times of London.
In 1925 he designed the Perpetua typeface, with the uppercase based upon monumental Roman inscriptions, for Morison, who was working for the Monotype Corporation.
Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.
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 ).
Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a " dame school ", some home schooling under the " capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic " instruction of Albion Bradbury ( her stepfather ), a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months ' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873.
Samuel Loring Morison was a government security analyst who worked on the side for Jane's, a British military and defense publisher.
Morison told investigators that he sent classified satellite photographs to Jane's because the " public should be aware of what was going on on the other side ", meaning that the Soviets ' new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would transform the USSR's military capabilities.
On October 17, 1985, Morison was convicted in Federal Court on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of government property.
One of his final reminiscences about his literary life occurred during an interview with Stephen Morison, Jr., a frequent visitor and friend who was teaching at the American School of Tangier at the time.
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.
In fact, in summing up Spruance's performance in the battle, Morison stated " Fletcher did well, but Spruance's performance was superb.
The establishment of Raffles College was a brainchild of Sir Stamford Raffles and Dr Robert Morison.
Sir Stamford, the founding father of Singapore, had knowledge of the Malay language and culture, while Morison was a distinguished sinologist missionary.
Commager was coauthor, with Samuel Eliot Morison, of the widely-used history text The Growth of the American Republic ( 1930 ; 1937 ; 1942 ; 1950, 1962 ; 1969 ; 7th ed., with William E. Leuchtenburg, 1980 ; abridged editions in 1980 and 1983 under the title Concise History of the American Republic ).
Commager was representative of a whole generation of like-minded historians who were widely read by the general public, including Samuel Eliot Morison, Allan Nevins, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and C. Vann Woodward.
( 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.
August A. Meier, a young professor at a black southern college, Tougaloo College, and a former student of Commager, corresponded with Morison and Commager during this period of time in an effort to get them to change their textbook and reported that Morison " just didn't get it " and didn't understand the negative effects that the Sambo stereotype was having on young impressionable students.

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Directed by John C. Wilson with choreography by Hanya Holm, it starred Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison.
* 1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
* 1960: John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
In 1944, the NAACP launched criticism of the textbook ; by 1950, under pressure from students and younger colleagues, Morison, while denying any racist intent ( he noted that his daughter had been married to Joel Elias Spingarn, the former President of the NAACP ), reluctantly agreed to most of the demanded changes.
* The Growth of the American Republic ( with Samuel Eliot Morison, New York: Oxford University Press, 1930 Oxford History of the United States ; 7th ed., 1980 .. Revised and abridged edition with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Leuchtenburg published by Oxford University Press in 1980 as A Concise History of the American Republic, rev.
For Admiral of the Ocean Sea ( 1942 ), Morison combined his personal interest in sailing with his scholarship by actually sailing to the various places that Christopher Columbus was then thought to have visited.
In 1942, Morison met with his friend President Franklin D. Roosevelt and offered to write a history of United States Navy operations during the war from an insider's perspective by taking part in operations and documenting them.
Morison's legacy is also sustained by the United States Naval History and Heritage Command's Samuel Eliot Morison Naval History Scholarship.
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.
Edited by Emily Morison Beck.
The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II is a 15-volume account of the United States Navy in World War II, written by eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown and Company between 1947 and 1962.
An abridgement of the fifteen-volume work entitled The Two-Ocean War ; A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War was written by Morison and published in 1963.
By the 1970s the artwork on Gottlieb games was almost always by Gordon Morison, and the company had begun designing their games with longer 3-inch flippers, now the industry standard.
His work has been praised by historians who have published essays in new editions of his work, including Pulitzer Prize winners C. Vann Woodward, Allan Nevins and Samuel Eliot Morison, along with Wilbur R. Jacobs, John Keegan, William Taylor, Mark Van Doren, David Levin, among others.
As decided by the school board on October 26, 2009, Morison Public School was closed down and moved into Mackenzie High School for the 2011-2012 school year in favour of making Mackenzie a JK-12 " education centre.
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 ).

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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.
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.
In the 1930s, Morison wrote a series of books on the history of Harvard University and New England, including Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors ( 1930 ), The Founding of Harvard College ( 1935 ), Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century ( 1936 ), Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636 – 1936 ( 1936 ), and The Puritan Pronaos ( 1936 ).
In 1940, Morison published Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century, a book that presaged his succeeding publications on the great explorer, Christopher Columbus.
Morison went on to the rank of Captain on December 15, 1945.
Morison died of a stroke on May 15, 1976.
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.
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.
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.
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.
: MIT Press, 1966 ), with a foreword by the historian of technology Elting E. Morison who had been on the faculty of MIT as a professor of humanities in the Sloan School of Industrial Management from 1946 to 1966.

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