Background
Miller, Gerrit Smith was born on December 6, 1869 in Peterboro, New York, United States. Son of Gerrit Smith and Susan (Dixwell) Miller.
Miller, Gerrit Smith was born on December 6, 1869 in Peterboro, New York, United States. Son of Gerrit Smith and Susan (Dixwell) Miller.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1894 and worked under Clinton Hart Merriam at the United States Department of Agriculture.
He became assistant curator of mammals at the United States National Museum in Washington in 1898 and was curator from 1909 to 1940, when he became an Associate in biology at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1906 he travelled to France, Spain and Tangier on a collecting trip. In 1915, he published results of his studies of casts of specimens associated with the Piltdown Manitoba, concluding that the jaw actually came from a fossil ape.
He was awarded the 1934 from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society. Member Academy Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), Zoological Society London.
Clubs: Cosmos, Arts (Washington).
Wrote: The Families and Genera of Bats.
Married Elizabeth Eleanor Page, 1897. Married second, Anne Chapin Gates, 1921.