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Obituary Notice of Hugh Miller, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., 

 etc., of H.M. Geological Survey of Scotland. By 

 William Gunn, F.G.S., of H.M. Geological Survey 

 of Scotland. 



The last surviving son of the celebrated Hugh Miller of 

 Cromarty, the late Hugh Miller, F.E.S.E., F.G.S., etc., was 

 born in Edinburgh on 15th July 1850. He received his 

 scientific education at the School of Mines in London, on 

 the nomination of Sir Eoderick Murchison, and joined the 

 Geological Survey of England on 26th May 1874. For ten 

 years the scene of his labours was the north-western part 

 of Northumberland, in the valleys of the Coquet, Redewater, 

 and North Tyne. He was then transferred to the Geological 

 Survey of Scotland, and, in accordance with his own wishes, 

 he was for some time stationed in the neighbourhood of the 

 Cromarty Firth — rendered classic ground by " The Old Red 

 Sandstone " and other works of his father — and his work 

 afterwards extended to the districts of Tain, Dornoch, Golspie, 

 and Lairg, on the eastern coasts of Ross and Sutherland. 

 He was at Lairg at the close of the year 1895, when he 

 was attacked by typhoid fever, and though (after his removal 

 to Edinburgh) hopes were entertained of his recovery, he 

 died at his residence. Douglas Orescent, in that city, on 

 8th January of the following year. 



In appearance and stature the late Hugh Miller is said 

 to have somewhat resembled his father, of whose literary 

 and scientific tastes and gifts he also had a considerable 

 share. He took special interest in Glacial Geology and in 

 methods of denudation, and several of the papers he con- 

 tributed to scientific societies were on these subjects. At all 

 times he took a great interest in art matters ; and the 

 subject of his address in 1890, to the Edinburgh Geological 

 Society, was "Landscape Geology," afterwards published, 

 with additions, in a pamphlet form. 



For several years his holidays were spent in Norway and 

 other countries abroad, in prosecution of his researches in 

 Glacial and Post-Glacial Geology. His principal published 

 work, however, consists of contributions, to our knowledge, 

 of the Carboniferous Rocks of Northumberland, contained in 



