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Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.
Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., about 1897
Born	(1869-12-06)December 6, 1869 Peterboro, New York
Died	February 24, 1956(1956-02-24) (aged 86) Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology Botany
Institutions	United States Department of Agriculture,Smithsonian Institution
Author abbrev. (botany)	G.S.Mill.

Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. (December 6, 1869 – February 24, 1956), was anAmericanzoologist andbotanist.

He was born inPeterboro, New York, in 1869. His great-grandfather wasGerrit Smith, the wealthy abolitionist, businessman, and politician; his father the livestock farmerGerrit Smith Miller.

He graduated fromHarvard University in 1894 and worked underClinton Hart Merriam at theUnited States Department of Agriculture. He became assistant curator of mammals at theUnited States National Museum in Washington in 1898 and was curator from 1909 to 1940, when he became an associate in biology at theSmithsonian Institution. In 1906 he traveled toFrance,Spain, andTangier on a collecting trip.

In 1915, he published results of his studies of casts of specimens associated with thePiltdown Man, concluding that the jaw actually came from a fossil ape and that the skullcap came from a modern human.^[1]

Miller was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921.^[2] He was awarded the 1934Leidy Award from theAcademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.^[3] He was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1939.^[4]

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