“ Morfill, who was 75 years of age and who had been in failing health for a long time, was a very remarkable man, and filled a special place in both Oxford and in the country as a representative of Slavonic studies. He was appointed reader in the Russian and Slavonic languages in 1889, and was raised by decree of the University to the rank of professor in 1900. Possessing an unusually powerful and retentive memory, and being an omniverous reader, he had a larger acquaintance with literature, both Russian and Polish, than even many educated natives of those countries. ”

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