Gerrit Smith Miller
Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr ( December 9, 1869 in Peterboro , New York , † February 24, 1956 in Washington ) was an American zoologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ GSMill. "
In 1894 he graduated from Harvard University and worked under Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-1942) at the US Department of Agriculture . In 1898, four years later, he became assistant curator at the United States National Museum in Washington . From 1909 to 1940 he was a member of the Smithsonian Institution's biological department . In 1921 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
In his studies on impression samples of the Piltdown man , which he published in 1915, he came to the conclusion that the jawbone can be assigned to a fossil great ape.
Works
- Directions for Preparing Study Specimens of Small Mammals (1894)
- Results of the Study of North American Land Mammals to che Close of the Year 1900 (1901)
- The Families and Genera of Bats (1907)
- Catalog of the Land Mammals of Western Europe (1912)
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- Keir B. Sterling et al. (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1997, ISBN 0-313-23047-1 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Gerrit Smith Miller at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, Gerrit Smith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Gerrit Smith Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peterboro , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1956 |
| Place of death | Washington |