THE MUSEUM. 



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At one place upon a knoll down in 

 the valley are found a number of 

 broken arrowheads and all are the 

 /•oitit halves, and no clippinj^s are 

 found. Will we not conclude from 

 this fact that we have discovered a 

 battle ground where the clash of flint, 

 the war whoop and the feather were 

 closely commingled in some deadly 

 afiray. \V. W. Shei.i.ev, 



Eldorado. Kan. 



Death of Samuel A. Miller. 



.\lTHOK 0|- NORTH .\MERICAN GEOLOGY 



.\ND PALEONTOLOGY AND OTHER 



SCIENTIFIC WORKS. 



On the iSth of December, 1897, 

 Samuel .\. Miller, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 succumbed to that fatal and dread dis- 

 ease, cancer of the liver, with which 

 he was stricken about three weeks 

 previously. He was born at Coolville, 

 Athens county, Ohio, August 28, 1837. 

 He was a graduate of the Ohio Uni- 

 versity, and of the Cincinnati Law 

 School, and was admitted to the bar 

 by the District Court of Hamilton 

 county, in April, i860, and since his 

 admission to the bar had practiced 

 continuously, with the exception of a 

 short time in 1861-62, when he edited 

 a weekly paper in Marietta. 



Mr. Miller was one of the founders 

 of the Society of Natural History, and 

 for several years edited the "Journal" 

 which is the official organ of that sci- 

 entific body: also edited and published 

 the "Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of 

 Science" in 1874-75. Mr. Miller at- 

 tained his greatest success, however, 

 as a scientist of the highest order, and 

 his works on geology and paleontology 

 will abundantly prove to the world 

 that he was truly one of the few mas- 

 ter-minds of this branch of science. 

 He was the author of "Meso^oic and 

 Caenozoic (ieology and Palaeontol- 

 ogy," "The American Palaeozoic Fos- 

 sils," and "North .American Geology 

 and Palaeontology," to which work he 

 later added two appendices. He had 

 in preparation "A Monograph on the 



Cephalopoda," the manuscript of which 

 was nearly finished at the time he was 

 taken ill. 



He was a member of the Geological 

 Commission of five states, Ohio, In- 

 diana, Missouri, Illinois and Wiscon- 

 sin, and the reports submitted by 

 them were largely the result of his 

 work. He has a record of describing 

 more crinoids than all geologists to- 

 gether, and is also the discoverer of 

 a system by which they can easily be 

 distinguished, and which is so highly 

 thought of that it has been adopted as 

 the standard authority both in Europe 

 and America. His collection of fossils 

 is considered one of the most complete 

 m the world, and any connosieur of 

 this science has only to view his speci- 

 mens to be convinced of their true 

 value. 



Mr. Miller was a hard student. His 

 love for geological knowledge never 

 seemed to wane, as he was up early 

 ;ind late that he might be able to fur- 

 ther this one great pleasure of his life. 

 It is admitted by learned professors 

 that his works on geology have never 

 been equalled by any one. 



The collection of fossils owned by 

 Mr. Miller is considsred the largest 

 private collection in the United States, 

 and its value is greatly increased ow- 

 ing to the large number of "tjpe" 

 species that it contains and by the cor- 

 irect nomenclature and classification 

 of each specimen. His scientific li- 

 brary contains several thousand vol- 

 umes, and embraces works of the 

 highest authority on Geology, Palaeon- 

 tology, Mineralogy and other scientific 

 subjects. 



The degree of Ph. I), was conferred 

 upon him by the Oiiio University in 

 1893, in recognition of his ability. He 

 was an honorary member of many 

 scientific societies in different parts of 

 the world. 



Mr. Miller was a man who very 

 much disliked ostentation, and this 

 fact was still moie thoroughly im- 

 pressed upon those who witnessed the 

 last sad rites of their honored and es- 



