Loye Holmes Miller (18 October 1874 – 6 April 1970), was an American

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

and zoologist who served as professor of zoology at the

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, and

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. Loye Miller was born in Minden, Louisiana, to parents George and Cora Holmes Miller and grew up in Riverside, California. Miller studied at the

, earning a B.A. in chemistry (1898), an M.A. in zoology (1904) and Ph.D. in paleontology (1912). He taught for three years at Oahu College (now called Punahou School) in Honolulu before earning his master's degree. He was first instructor of biology at Los Angeles State Normal School (which would later become UCLA), teaching from 1904 to 1919. He later became a professor, retiring in 1943. His research included, among others. fossil birds from Pleistocene caves in California, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Green River Formation in Oregon. With funding from the University Regents, he and John Campbell Merriam, John C. Merriam excavated La Brea from 1905 to 1907 and in 1912–1913. Reprinted online a
University of California Museum of Paleontology
/ref> Miller was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ornithological Union, and California Academy of Sciences. He served as vice-president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. He was awarded an honorary Legum Doctor, LL.D. by the University of California in 1951. Known as "Padre" to friends and colleagues, He supervised two Ph.D. students, two master's students, and served on the dissertation committee of paleontologist Hildegarde Howard. Miller died April 6, 1970, in Davis, California. He was survived by his son Holmes Odell, three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. His elder son Alden Holmes Miller, who died in 1965, was a professor of zoology at UC Berkeley, and director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. __NOTOC__

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Guide to the Loye Holmes Miller papers, 1899-1957
at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Loye H. 1874 births 1970 deaths American paleontologists American ornithologists University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of California, Davis faculty People from Minden, Louisiana Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Writers from Louisiana 20th-century American zoologists

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