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Lea, etc, and discovered two new shells, two others bcin^ named after hira by Lea. His catalogue was by far the most complete of any then com- piled. In 1864 the duties of "acting superintendent of the farm" were add- ed to his chair while in 1865 he became professor of animal physiology, prac- tical agriculture and farm superintend- ent. In 1869 he ceased to teach phy- siology, devoting his entire time to practical agriculture, being far ahead of his time. In 1875 he resigned to accept the professorship of agriculture in the Illinois State University. Later he moved to Houghton Farm, near Mountainville, New York, and devoted himself entirely to scientific experiments, though afterwards he accepted the professorship of agriculture in the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amhurst, Massachusetts. In 1886 he returned to Lansing to investigate, study and write till his death. Among his appointments and memberships were: membership of the Michigan State Medical Society; member of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science; of the Entomological Society of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania; fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society; and of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Dr. R. C. Ked- zie, who entered the Agricultural Col- lege two years later than Dr. Miles, said: "that he found Dr. Miles an authority among both professors and students, on birds, beasts, reptiles, stones of the fields and insects of the the air." In teaching agriculture Dr. Miles created such enthusiasm among the students that each regarded it a favor to work with him in the fields or ditches — he worked with the boys and filled the work with intellectual enjoyment. He was especially fond of boys who tried to learn something; he liked pets and little children. To his death he retained his habits of investigation and study, though his great deafness rendered his public work difficult. Dr. Miles was the

first professor of practical agriculture in the United States. On February 15, 1851, he married Mary E. Dodge, of Lansing, Michigan, who survived him.

Dr. Manly Miles died at Lansing, Michigan, February 15, 1898, from fatty degeneration of the heart.

His papers included:

"The Microbes of Nitrification." ("Scientific American," vol. xxxii.)

"Energy as a Factor in Agriculture." ("Popular Science Monthly," vol. xli.)

"Progress in Agricultural Science." ("Popular Science Monthly," vol. xxxviii.)

" Heredity of Acquired Character- istics. " ("Proceedings of the American Association of Advanced Science," vol. xli.)

"How Plants and Animals Grow." ("Popular Science Monthly," vol. xliii.)

He was a constant writer and ad- visor of the "American Agriculturalist" and wrote many books on practical agriculture, as "Stock Breeding," "Ex- periments with Indian Corn," "Silos and Ensilage," "Land Drainage."

L. C.

Popular Science Monthly, April, 1S99. Bul- letin of the Michigan Ornithological Club, vol. ii, No. 11, Grand Rapids, Mich., April, 1898.

MiUard, Perry H. (1848-1897).

Perry H. Millard was born May 14, 1848, in Ogdensberg, New York. He was principal of the High School, but at the end of a year he went to the Rush Medical College at Chicago, where after a three years' course he graduated in 1871 and began to practice in Chicago, but losing everything in the great fire of 1872, he came to Stillwater, Minnesota, the same year. In Septem- ber, 1880, he spent nine months at Guy's Hospital, London, also two months in Vienna. He was mainly instrumental in getting through the first Medical Practice Act of Minnesota in 1883, and was the vis a tergo in establishing the Medical Department of the Minnesota