Who's Who in the Far East/MORRISON, Dr. George Ernest
MORRISON, Dr. George Ernest (PEKING), M.D., C.M., F.E.G.S.; "The Times "Correspondent; b. Feb. 4, 1862, at Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Educ.: Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities. Crossed Australia on foot from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne, Christimas, 1882-1883; speared in New Guinea, Oct., 1883; spear-head cut out of body in Edinburgh, July, 1884; graduated, 1887; crossed from Shanghai to Rangoon by land, 1894; as special for "The Times" travelled from Bangkok in Siam to Yunnan City in China and round Tonkin, 1896; crossed Manchuria from Stretensk in Siberia to Vladivostock, 1897; represented "The Times " at the conference between the Japanese and Russian Peace Commissioners at Portsmouth, 1905. Publication: "An Australian in China": being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma, 1895. Recreations: Foreign travel. Address: Peking, China.