Samuel Almond Miller

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Samuel Almond Miller (* 1837 in Athens , Ohio , † December 18, 1897 in Cincinnati , Ohio) was an American paleontologist .

Life

Miller was a full-time attorney (he graduated from Cincinnati Law College and was admitted to the bar in 1860) and an amateur paleontologist. He published several monographs on fossils from the Paleozoic Era in North America.

In 1874/75 he published the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science (co-owner was Lewis Montgomery Hosea (1842-1924)), in which many articles on local fossils appeared. Only 8 issues appeared, but Miller was also a founding member of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, which published a similar journal from 1878 onwards. He was at times president of the society and editor of the journal (as well as its curator for paleontology). He also ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate and for the post of Ohio State Geologist.

He named many taxa, collaborating with other local collectors such as CB Dyer. Miller himself had a very large collection of fossils (he collected not only in the Cincinnati area, but also in Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin). Part of the collection came to the University of Cincinnati, but he also sold many of his type copies to Chicago (especially to WFE Gurley, with whom he also published, and to the Walker Museum). At that time he published widespread compendia on North American paleontology and geology.

In the zoological system of mussels in the large group of Palaeoheterodonta, he founded the Modiomorphoidea MILLER superfamily in 1877 with the Modiomorphoidae MILLER family in 1877.

In 1882 he received an honorary doctorate from Ohio University.

Fonts

  • North American Mesozoic and Cenozoic Geology and Palaeontology 1881
  • North American Geology and Paleontology for use of amateurs, students, and scientists, Cincinnati 1889, with supplements 1892, 1897
  • The American Palaeozoic Fossils: a catalog of the genera and species, Cincinnati 1877

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1836 is also often given. Here after Richard Arnold Davis, David L. Meyer, A Sea without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of ​​the Cincinnati Region, Indiana University Press 2009, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Samuel Almond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH near Athens , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1897
Place of death Cincinnati , hio