MORICE, Adrian Gabriel, Canadian clergy man, ethnologist and author: b. Saint Mars sur-Colmont, Mayenne, France, 27 Aug. 1859. He was educated at Oisseau, Sion and Autun, France, joined the Oblate Order in 1877 and three years later was sent to British Columbia. In 1882 he was ordained to the priesthood, and for the following three years labored as mis sionary to the Chilcotin Indians at William's Lake. From 1882 to 1906 he was stationed at Stuart's Lake, B. C.; was then transferred suc cessively to Kamloops 1906, Saint Boniface 1908, Winnipeg 1909, Duck Lake, Sask., 1910, and Winnipeg 1911. Since 1911 he has been lecturer in anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. During his missionary career he mastered a number of Indian languages and compiled dictionaries and grammars of Chil cotin, Sekanais and Nahanais. He invented the Detre Syllabary and printed books in that lan guage. He made maps during his wanderings up and down British Columbia. For one of these the Geographical Society of Paris awarded him a silver medal and another map was published by the provincial government. He is a member of the American Anthropo logical Association, the Historical Society of Saint Boniface, the Lthnological Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, corresponding member of the Cana dian Institute, the Geographical Society of Quebec and of many others in Canada and abroad. He is the author of pays de l'ours
noir' (1897) ; (History of the Northern Inte rior of British Columbia' (1904 et seq.); .(Aux sources de l'histoire manitobaine (1907) ; (Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des Metis francais de l'Ouest' (1908); (His tory of the Catholic Church in Western Can ada' (2 vols., 1910). He collaborated in (Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics' and in (The Catholic Encyclopedia.' MORIER,
James Justinian,
lish diplomatist, traveler and novelist: h. Smyrna, about 1780; d. Brighton, March 1849. He was educated at Harrow, England, and en tered (1807) the Persian diplomatic service and returned (1809) to England via Turkey, making a journey that became celebrated and a description of which he published under the title of
Journey through Persia, Armenia. and Asia Minor to Constantinople in the years 1808 and 1809' (1812). Returning (1810) to Teheran as secretary of legation he made his journey (1815) back to Europe through Asia Minor and published another book entitled
Second Journey through Persia' (1818). After a trip to Mexico he settled in England and devoted himself to a literary life. Among his works are the Oriental novels 'Hajji Baba of Ispahan) (1824; new ed., 1914), perhaps his best work; (The Mirza> (1842);