Loye H. Miller
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UC Berkeley | |
| Spouse | Anne Holmes |
| Children | Alden H. Miller |
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| Fields | Paleontology, Ornithology |
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| Doctoral advisor | John C. Merriam |
| Other academic advisors | William E. Ritter |
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Loye Holmes Miller (18 October 1874 – 6 April 1970), was an American
paleontologist and zoologist who served as professor of zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Davis
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Loye Miller was born in Minden, Louisiana, to parents George and Cora Holmes Miller and grew up in Riverside, California. [1] Miller studied at the
Los Angeles State Normal School (which would later become UCLA), teaching from 1904 to 1919. He later became a professor, retiring in 1943.[2]
His research included, among others, fossil birds from Pleistocene caves in California, the
American Ornithological Union, and California Academy of Sciences. He served as vice-president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. He was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of California in 1951.[2] Known as "Padre" to friends and colleagues, He supervised two Ph.D. students, two master's students, and served on the dissertation committee of paleontologist Hildegarde Howard.[4]
Miller died April 6, 1970, in Davis, California. He was survived by his son Holmes Odell, three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. His elder son
Alden Holmes Miller, who died in 1965, was a professor of zoology at UC Berkeley, and director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.[2]
Books
- The Fossil Birds of California, an Avifauna and Bibliography with Annotations. University of California Publications in Zoology. 1942. (with Ida DeMay)
- Birds of the Campus, University of California Los Angeles. University of California Press. 1947. (with Robert C. Stebbins)
- Lifelong Boyhood: Recollections of a Naturalist Afield. University of California Press. 1950.
References
- JSTOR 4083880.
- ^ a b c Ball, G. H.; Bartholomew, G. A.; Jahn, T. L. (1974). "Loye H. Miller, Biological Sciences: Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Davis". University of California: In Memoriam, 1974. Academic Senate, University of California. pp. 65–67.
- ^ Lipps, Jere H. (2004). "Success story: the history and development of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 55, Supplement I (9): 209–243. Reprinted online at University of California Museum of Paleontology
- JSTOR 1369452.
Further reading
- Loye Holmes Miller: The Interpretive Naturalist (PDF), University of California, Berkeley, 1970
- Storer, Tracy I. (1972). "Loye Holmes Miller: Un hombre muy simpatico" (PDF). The Condor. 74 (3): 231–236. JSTOR 1366586.
External links
- Works by or about Loye H. Miller at Internet Archive
- Guide to the Loye Holmes Miller papers, 1899-1957 at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
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