Loye Miller
Loye Holmes Miller (born October 18, 1874 in Minden , Louisiana , † April 6, 1970 in Davis , California ) was an American paleornithologist . He was a professor of biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Miller studied at the University of California, Berkeley , with a master's degree in zoology with John C. Merriam (a paleontologist and student of Karl Alfred von Zittel ) in 1903 and was then first instructor of biology at the Los Angeles Normal School, the later UCLA. He later became a professor there and retired in 1943.
He studied fossil birds from Pleistocene caves in California, the tar pits of La Brea and the Green River Formation (Fossil Lake) in Oregon.
His son Alden Holmes Miller (1906-1965) was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley , also a paleornithologist and director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Fonts
- Contributions to Avian Paleontology from the Pacific Coast of North America, University of California Press, Berkeley 1912
- Studies on the fossil flora and fauna of the western United States, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC 1925
- Fossil birds of California, University of California Press 1929, 1942
- Lifelong boyhood; recollections of a naturalist afield, University of California Press 1950 (autobiography)
literature
- Who was who in America. : Volume V, 1969-1973 with world notables. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 500.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, Loye |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Loye Holmes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist and ornithologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minden, Louisiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1970 |
| Place of death | Davis , California |