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NAME MILES 791 MILLARD worked on the farm, to his common school education adding reading and study during spare moments. He was widely known as the "boy with a book," and the boy who never failed to accomplish anything he undertook. In 1850 he graduated M. D. from Rush Med- ical College, Chicago, and practised in Flint till 1859, when he was appointed by Gov. Wisner assistant state geologist in the depart- ment of zoology. In 1860 he was appointed professor of animal physiology and zoology in the Michigan State Agricultural College at Lansing. While in the zoological depart- ment of the Geological State Survey he was in constant correspondence with the leading naturalists of the period, as Agassiz, Cope, Lea, and discovered two new shells, two others being named after him by Lea. His catalogue was by far the most complete of any then compiled. In 1864 the duties of "acting superintendent of the farm" were added to his chair while in 1865 he became professor of animal physiology and practical agriculture and also farm superintendent. In 1869 he ceased to teach physiology, 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 Massa- chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1886 he returned to Lansing to investigate, study and write till his death. Among his appointments and memberships were : membership in the Michigan State Medi- cal Society; member of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science; of the Entomological Society of Philadephia, Pennsylvania ; fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. R. C. Kedzie, who entered the Agricultural College two years later than Dr. Miles, said that he found "Dr. Miles an authority among both professors and stu- dents, on birds, beasts, reptiles, stones of the fields and insects of 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. inves- tigation and study, though his great deafness rendered his public work difficult. Dr. Miles was the first professor of practical agricul- ture 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. He was a constant writer and advisor of the American Agriculturalist and wrote many books on practical agriculture, as "Stock Breeding," "Experiments with Indian Corn," "Silos and Ensilage," "Land Drainage." Leartus Connor. Popular Science Monthly, April, 1899. Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club, vol, ii, No. 11, Grand Rapids, Mich., April, 1898. MUIard, Perry H. (1848-1897) Perry H. Millard was born May 14, 1848, in Ogdensburg, 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 practise in Chicago, but losing everything in the great fire that year, he came to Stillwater, Minne- sota. In September, 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 State University, being dean of the department at the time of his death. He was best known for his work on the State Board of Medical Examiners. The law of 1887 was made up entirely by Dr. Millard and an attorney of Stillwater, Fayette Marsh. Dr. Millard was chiefly instrumental in get- ting this law passed by the State Legislature. Dr. Millard was president of the Minnesota State Medical Association and vice-president of the American Medical Association. He was one of the most active organizers and pro- moters of the Association of American Med- ical Colleges, and labored earnestly and per- sistently for the good of the medical pro- fession. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, after a lingering illness, February 1, 1897. He married, in 1874, Caroline, daughter of John R. Swain. BuRNsiDE Foster. Trans. Amer. Surg. Asso., 1897. vol. xv, p. xxviii. Trans. Nat. Confed. State Med. Exam. Bds., Easton, Pa., 1897, vol. vii, 16.