Davis, J. Merle (John Merle), 1875-1960 (Personal Name)

nuc87-22328: His Some observations of China [MI] 1926? (hdg. on MH rept.: Davis, J. Merle; usage in note: J. Merle Davis)

LC data base, 2-25-88 (hdg.: Davis, John Merle, 1875-1960; usage: J. Merle Davis)

One hundred mountains blog, Seasons of a stratovolcano, July 10, 2009, viewed Aug. 19, 2013 (J Merle Davis, missionary, associate of the Mountain Goats of Kobe [Kansai-based foreign mountaineers])

Pacific affairs, v. 34, no. 1, spring 1961, viewed online Aug. 19, 2013: p. 66-68 (John Merle Davis; d. Mar. 16, 1960, in Palo Alto, Cal., age 85; American, b. in Kyoto, learned Japanese almost as a mother tongue; returned to Japan as a Y.M.C.A. secretary; worked on Race Relations Survey in California; creator of Institute of Pacific Relations, Honolulu; traveled widely for I.P.R. in Pacific countries and Europe; left the Institute after the Kyoto Conference of 1929; did research for the International Missionary Council in Africa, China, South Asia, the Caribbean, and Central and South America; missionary; attended Oberlin College)