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MILLARD
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
