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MORRIS 821 MORROW emy. He began to study law as a profession at the age of fifteen, but an orphan with ■little means, he was forced to relinquish this, and in 1841 went to Baltimore, Maryland, and became a teacher in Baltimore County, at the same time beginning the study of medi- cine ; he was a pupil of F. E. B. Hintze and S. Annan (q. v.), and had his first course of lectures at Washington College (now the Church Home and Infirmary), Baltimore, 1845- 1846. In 1848 he moved to Baltimore and entered the office of Dr. Hintze. He became inter- ested in public affairs and served in the Mary- land Legislature, 1852-1856 ; was a member of the Baltimore School Board, 1856-1857; post- master of Baltimore, 1857-1861 ; member of the City Council, 1867. Dr. Morris was licentiate of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1845 ; a Licentiate in Midwifery of Rotunda Hospital, Ireland, and an honorary M. D. (1868) of Believue, New York. From 1875 to 1877 he was president of the Maryland Inebriate Asylum, and of the Lunacy Commission of Maryland. In 1867 he was one of the two American delegates (David Dudley Field was the other) to the Social Science Congress held in Belfast ; in 1875 he was delegate to the British Medical Associa- tion at Edinburgh, to the Industrial Medical Congress at Brussels and to the French Scien- tific Congress at Nantes. During the yellow fever epidemic in Nor- folk, in 1855, he volunteered his service and did such heroic work that the citizens pre- sented him with a gold medal in commemora- tion. He contracted the fever and had a long illness. When the Sixth Massachusetts Regi- ment was attacked in Baltimore, April 19, 1861, he had the wounded carried to his office near and gave them medical aid. It was to Morris that Edward ("Bey") Warren (q. v.) addressed the letters that make up Warren's book "A Doctor's Experience in Three Continents." In 1871 Dr. Morris married Caroline Can- field, daughter of Wykof? Piatt, a lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio ; John Norfolk Morris, resident physician of Springfield Asylum for the Insane, was their son. After several Months' illness Morris died at the City (later Mercy) Hospital, Baltimore, January 29, 1903 ; he was buried at Lancaster. Medical Annals of Maryland, E. F. Cordell, Bal- timore, 1903. Address before the Rocky Mountain Med. Assc, J. M. Toner, 1877. The Sun (Baltimore), Jan. 30, 1903. Morrison, Robert Brown (1851-1897) Robert Brown Morrison was born in Bal- timore, Maryland, on March 13, 1851. He went first to Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1869 entered Harvard Uni- versity, but did not graduate. He continued his studies at the University of Gottengen, Germany, finally graduating M. D. from the University of Maryland in 1874. Soon after he became a member of the Clinical Society of Baltimore, and of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, but in 1882 returned to Europe and studied dermatology at Prague under Pick and Chiari. While there he won distinction by his orig- inal investigations, the most important being his extensive and painstaking study of the histo-pathology of the prurigo papule and the application of certain stains in syphilitic tissue. From Prague he went to Vienna and studied under Neumann and after this to the hos- pitals of Hamburg and Berlin. Upon his return in 1884, he was elected professor of dermatology in the Baltimore Polyclinic and Post-Graduate Aledical School. He was also lecturer on dermatology in the Woman's Med- ical College, Baltimore. In 1887 he was elected clinical professor of dermatology in the University of Maryland, but two years later was appointed professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. He was president of the American Der- matological Association 1893-4, and was re- garded as the pioneer dermatologist of Mary- land, his observations and contributions re- garding skin diseases of the negro being, perhaps, the most valuable ever written. He was a gentleman of broad culture, charming personality, and his published writ- ings bear the stamp of an astute student and of a painstaking clinician. In the last years of his life failing health compelled him to resign his professorships, and in other ways curtail his activities. His death occurred at Baltimore, Septem- ber 30, 1897. J. McF. WiNFIELD. Morrow, Prince Albert (1846-1913) Prince Albert Morrow was born Decem- ber 19, 1846 at Mount Vernon, Christian County, Kentucky. He was the son of Will- iam and Mary Ann Co.x Morrow, his pater- nal ancestor having been a general in the army, a prominent politician, and a well-to- do planter. His maternal ancestor came from