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CodePX1385
Dates1858-1942
Person NameMiers; Sir; Henry Alexander (1858-1942); Knight; Mineralogist
SurnameMiers
ForenamesHenry Alexander
PreTitleSir
TitleKnight
EpithetMineralogist
ActivityMuseum Staff: Appointed 1st class assistant in Department of Mineralogy 1882; resigned 1895. 1895 - 1908 Wayneflete Professor of Mineralogy, Oxford. 1908 - 1915 Principal of the University of London. 1915 - 1926 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester and Professor of Crystallography. 1926 - 1939 Trustee of the British Museum. 1928 - 1933 President of the Museums Association. 1932 President of the Library Association. 1896 fellow of the Royal Society. 1912 knighted. Awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society 1934.

In August 1888 he accompanied an aeronaut named Simmons on a ballon flight intended to travel to Austria from the Danish Exhibition in London. The ballon crashed, Simmons was killed and Miers hospitalised for 6 weeks - a poem from his time in hospital is catalogued at DF/MIN/20/11/28.

Member of the Crystallogical Society which amalgamated with the Mineralogical Society in 1883. Served on the council since 1888, vice president 1901 - 1904 and president 1904 - 1909. He was editor of the society journal 1891 - 1900 and a trustee of the society from 1911 - 1940
RelationshipsGrandfather John Miers (1789 - 1879), botanist.
Catalogue
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DF/MIN/20/11/21Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Crystal measurements II 
DF/MIN/20/11/12Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Notes on stibnite and stephanite 
DF/MIN/20/11/16Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, 'Specific gravity of proustite and pyrargyrite' 
DF/MIN/18/25Sir Henry Miers 
DF/MIN/20/11/22Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Crystal measurements III 
DF/MIN/20/11/20Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Crystal measurements I 
DF/MIN/20/11/24Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Crystal measurements V 
DF/MIN/20/11/2Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/20/11/13Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Bibliographical and other notes on minerals 
DF/MIN/20/11/14Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, 'Notes on minerals', arranged alphabetically 
DF/MIN/20/11/23Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Crystal measurements IV 
DF/MIN/20/11/26Miers, Henry Alexander: Notes on gnomic projection 
DF/MIN/20/11/11Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Alterations in the Mineral Gallery 
DF/MIN/20/11/5Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/20/11/7Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/BOT/404/1/5/51Miers, Henry 
DF/ZOO/232/6/15/10/17Miers, Henry [Alexander] 
DF/MIN/20/11/3Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/20/11/1Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/10/4/3Crystal measurements by Henry A Miers 
DF/MIN/20/11/4Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/20/11/6Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/3/1/35Chandakapur meteorite, India 
DF/MIN/20/11/17Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, 'Bournonite, cuprite, acanthite and a doubtful green crystal' 
DF/MIN/20/11/19Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Bibliographical references on mineralogical topics 
DF/MIN/20/11/10Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, 'Notes on tetrahedrite and bournonite; list of book consulted' 
DF/MIN/20/11/28Miers, Henry Alexander: Poem written on the occasion of his fall from a balloon on 27 August 1888, Addressed to Dr Prior 
DF/MIN/20/11/8Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/525Miers, H A 
DF/BOT/400/5/8Miers, Henry Alexander (London) 
DF/MIN/1/2/115-118Baxter, F 
DF/MIN/1/2/194-198Bemrose, H A 
DF/MIN/1/2/204-206Bentley, E L 
DF/MIN/10/4/10Notes on pseudomorphs, pyrargyrite, proustite and menegtrinite, by Henry A Miers 
DF/MIN/20/11/27Miers, Henry Alexander: Address book 
DF/MIN/20/11/9Miers, Henry Alexander: Official diary recording daily duties in the Museum 
DF/MIN/10/4/11Notes by Walter Campbell Smith on crystals measured by Henry Miers and Henry Platnauer between 1880 and 1883 
DF/MIN/1/2/120-125Bayley, J M 
DF/MIN/10/3/3Notes on mineral localities by Henry A Miers, George T Prior, Leonard J Spencer and Jessie May Sweet 
DF/MIN/20/11/15Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, Notes on mineral species and varieties, arranged alphabetically 
DF/MIN/20/11/18Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook, notes on red silver, monazite, and Russian mineral localities 
DF/MIN/20/11/25Miers, Henry Alexander: notebook 
DF/MIN/20/12/24Prior, George Thurland: Mineralogical Society: printed papers relating to the jubilee celebrations 
DF/MIN/2/2Miers, Henry A: register of outgoing letters, June 1892-Dec 1893 
DF/MIN/2/1Miers, Henry A: register of outgoing letters, June 1890-June 1892 
DF/MIN/2/3Miers, Henry A: register of outgoing letters, Jan 1894-Sep 1895 
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