Record

Code	PX1385
Dates	1858-1942
Person Name	Miers; Sir; Henry Alexander (1858-1942); Knight; Mineralogist
Surname	Miers
Forenames	Henry Alexander
PreTitle	Sir
Title	Knight
Epithet	Mineralogist
Activity	Museum 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
Relationships	Grandfather John Miers (1789 - 1879), botanist.

Catalogue

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

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