Miers Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 86
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Miers Papers
Date(s)	: [19th century-20th century]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Miers | Sir | Henry Alexander | 1858-1942 | Knight | mineralogist
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Miers was born in Rio de Janeiro on 25 May 1858. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College Oxford. In 1882 he joined the British Museum as an Assistant, a post he held till 1895; he was also an Instructor in Crystallography at the Central Technical College in South Kensington from 1886 to 1895. Miers became Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine, 1891-1900. From 1895 to 1908 he was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford. He was Principal of the University of London from 1908 to 1915; and also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester and Professor of Crystallography, 1915-1926. Miers was Vice-President of the Chemical Society, 1901-1904; of the Geological Society, 1902-1904; and of the Royal Society of Arts, 1913. He was President of the Mineralogical Society, 1904-1909; President of the Museums Association, 1928-1933; Library Association, 1932; and the Council of the Royal Society, 1901-1903. He was a trustee of the British Museum, 1926-1939. Throughout his life, Miers published numerous scientific papers. He died on 10 December 1942.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Undated manuscript notes on the Staatliches Skulpturensammlung (state sculpture collection), Albertinum, Dresden.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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Conditions governing access:

Open.

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Archival Information

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999