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 MILLER 551 platforms, which divide the tubes into joints or cells. These platforms are deposited by the base of the animal, and are of high importance in classification ; by them is characterized Milne-Ed wards's division of the tdbulata, which includes millepora. Till within a short time Millepora alcicornis. all zoologists have placed the millepores among polyps. In the winter of 1857-'8 Prof. Agassiz succeeded, for the first time, in observing the animals of millepora alcicornis in Florida, and was surprised to find them not polyps, but true hydroid medusae, resembling hydr actinia. This observation gives great importance to the me- dusae, as represented among the fossils, for the tabulata are found abundantly as low as the Silurian formations. As the presence of me- senteric septa seems to militate against the above mentioned separation, some naturalists retain them among the polyps. See "The British Fossil Corals," by Milne-Edwards, in the "Transactions of the Palaeontographical Society;" Dana's "Zoophytes" and "Corals and Coral Islands;" the "American Journal of Science," vol. xxvi., p. 140 (1858) ; and Agas- siz's " Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," vol. iii. MILLER. I. A S. W. county of Georgia, in- tersected by Spring creek, a branch of Flint river; area, about 250 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,091, of whom 956 were colored. The sur- face is level, and the soil moderately fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 76,783 bushels of Indian corn, 11,968 of oats, 13,867 of sweet potatoes, 1,744 Ibs. of rice, 6,015 of wool, 11,370 of butter, 1,684 bales of cotton, and 10,993 gallons of molasses. There were 1,871 milch cows, 4,110 other cattle, 3,995 sheep, and 6,456 swine. Capital, Colquit. II. A central county of Missouri, traversed by Osage river, here navigable during three or four months of the year ; area, 570 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 6,616, of whom 176 were colored. The surface is diversified and well timbered with walnut, sugar maple, and other valuable woods. The soil of the river bottoms is fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 91,918 bushels of wheat, 256,141 of Indian corn, 69,977 of oats, 12,475 of potatoes, 10,436 Ibs. of tobac- co, 22,482 of wool, 31,773 of butter, and 1,567 bales of cotton. There were 2,926 horses, 2,474 milch cows, 4,271 other cattle, 11,504 sheep, and 17,841 swine. Capital, Tuscumbia. MILLER, Benigne Emmanuel Clement, a French philologist, born in Paris in 1812. In 1834 he received an appointment in the manuscript department of the royal library, where he be- came thoroughly acquainted with Greek palse- ography. In 1835 and 1836 he was sent to the libraries of Italy and Spain to collect the scholia of Aristophanes. Among the results of his explorations were a Supplement aux dernieres editions des petits geographer grecs (8vo, 1839), Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la libliotheque de VEscurial (4to, 1848), and Poesies grecques inedites de Manuel Phile. In 1851 he published at Oxford, under the title of Philosophumena, sive omnium Hceresium Refu- tatio, the text of a manuscript procured from Mt. Athos by Mynas, which he believed to be an original treatise of Origen, but which is now generally attributed to Hippolytus. In 1840-'46 he published Revue de bibliographic analytique (6 vols.), which met with moderate success ; and he has edited several minor Greek authors. He was also one of the principal edi- tors of the Recueil d'itineraires anciens (4to, with atlas, 1844). In 1849 he became libra- rian of the national assembly, and in 1860 was elected to the academy of inscriptions and belles-lettres. One of his latest works is Me- langes de litterature grecque (8vo, 1868). MILLER, Edward, an American physician, born in Dover, Del., May 9, 1760, died in New York, March 17, 1812. He attended medical lec- tures in the university of Pennsylvania, spent about a year in the military hospital at Bask- ingridge, N. J., and in 1782 went to France as the surgeon of an armed ship. In 1783 he en- tered on the practice of medicine in Maryland, and in 1788 graduated as M. D. in the univer- sity of Pennsylvania. In 1796 he removed to New York, and with Dr. Mitchill and Dr. Smith commenced the publication of the "Med- ical Repository," the first American medical journal. In 1803 he was appointed resident physician for the city of New York. He was a member of the American philosophical soci- ety, professor of the theory and practice of physic in the college of physicians and sur- geons, and one of the physicians of the New York hospital. His "Eeport on the Yellow Fever of New York in 1805 " is the source from which most later authors have drawn their arguments in support of the non-conta- gious nature of yellow fever. His writings, with a biographical sketch, were published by his brother, the Rev. Samuel Miller (8vo, 1814). MILLER, Hngh, a British geologist, born at Cromarty, on the E. coast of Scotland, Oct. 10, 1802, died at Portobello, near Edinburgh, Dec. 26, 1856. He belonged to that half Scandina-