It is with great regret we record the death of
Dr. Morrison, the well-known Chinese expert, sometime Pekin correspondent of the Times and later political adviser to the first President of the Chinese Republic. There is no need to dwell upon Dr. Morrison's ability, foresight, patriotism, and statesmanship, for all these qualities have been universally recognized. It is interesting, however, to note that these imperial and governing qualities were associated in his case with a remarkable gift for scholarship. He was a great colleotor of books, both Oriental and European, dealing with China, and he did much not only to elucidate but also to preserve the records of the Chinese Empire. Dr. Morrison was born at Geelong, Victoria, in 1882, his father being a Scotsman. Since his youth was passed in Australia, his middle life in China, and his last years in England, he may be said to have been native-born of the Empire. An old colleague who writes of him in the Times declares that " a rough and ready sociability and an insatiable curiosity concerning the lives, thoughts and deeds of all sorts and conditions of men " were his chief characteristics. Taken on the whole, he was a great man and did the Empire great service.
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