Guide to the Loye Holmes Miller papers, 1899-1957

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Guide to the Loye Holmes Miller Papers, 1899-1957

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 997

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
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Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Loye Holmes Miller papers,

Date (inclusive): 1899-1957

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 997

Creator: Miller, Loye, 1874-1970

Extent: Number of container: 1 box Linear feet: 0.5

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence as zoologist and ornithologist, University of California; diaries concerning U.C. expedition to fossil beds of the John Day River, Oregon, 1899, Hawaii from 1900 to 1903, marine expedition on the Albatross off the coast of California in 1904, eastern lecture tour, 1921, with H.C. Bryant for National Park promotion, and Tahoe trip, July-August, 1919.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Loye Holmes Miller papers, BANC MSS C-B 997, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

Professor Miller gave 4 diaries to the Bancroft Library in 1952, 1955, and 1961. Additional correspondence, papers and the 1904 diary were transferred from Archives in December 1965.

Biography

Loye Holmes Miller, biologist, zoologist and ornithologist, was born on October 13, 1874 in Minden, Louisiana. He came to California as a boy and later studied at the University of California. His teaching career in biology began at Oahu College on Honolulu, from 1900 to 1903, and continued at the State Normal School in Los Angeles, and at the University of California in Los Angeles. In 1904 he was scientific assistant to Professor Ritter on the marine exploration cruise of the Albatross, working from San Diego to Point Concepción.

Very much interested in ornithology, Miller imitated bird songs and calls, and made recordings of them. In great demand as a lecturer and promoter of National Parks, Professor Miller instituted nature guide services in Yosemite in 1921, to encourage nature study. He also contributed to California paleontology by his studies of vertebrate fossils, and his discovery of the remains of the California peacock in the La Brea tarpits.

Box 1

Outgoing letters, 1910-1957.

Additional Note

Undated items at end of folder.

Incoming letters:

Additional Note

Single letters have been placed in an A-Z Miscellany, preceding folders containing two or more letters, arranged alphabetically by author, and chronologically within each folder.

Diaries:

v. 1: Journal of John Day River Expedition, Oregon, 1899.

Additional Note

Also in same volume, Hawaiian journal, Dec. 1902-Apr. 1903

v. 2: First impressions in Honolulu, Jan.-Feb. 1900

v. 3: Diary kept in 1904 while on marine expedition on the Albatross along the coast of California

v. 4: Journal of Tahoe trip, 1919

v. 5: Eastern journal, Jan. 1921, of a lecture tour by H. C. Bryant and Loye Miller for the promotion of National Parks

Transcripts of diaries, v. 1-2 and 5

Biographical material

Membership certificates, appointments, 1908-1936

Miscellaneous, including list of birds observed in Crater Lake National Park, July-Aug. 1926, and a sketch map of part of the Albatross cruise of 1904.

A-Z Miscellany

Aitkin, Robert Grant, 1864-1951

Letter, Aug. 24, 1944

Albright, Horace Marden, 1890-

Letter, Sept. 28, 1923, written as Supt., Yellowstone National Park

Allen, Arthur Augustus, 1885-

Letter, May 14, 1940

Allen, Glover Morrill, 1879-1942

Letter, Apr. 30, 1922

American Society of Naturalists

Letter, Jan. 29, 1932, by E. W. Lindstrom

Atkinson, Spencer Roane, 1886-

Letter, Mar. 10, 1937

Berry, Samuel Stillman, 1887-

Letter, Aug. 23, 1935

Brand, Albert Rich, d. 1940

Letter, Sept. 24, 1938

Eakin, Richard Marshall, 1910-

Letter, Nov. 21, 1940

Eby, Harvey Leatherman, 1874-

Letter, July 5, 1955

Errington, Paul Lester, 1902-

Letter, Nov. 19, 1947

Grange, Wallace Byron, 1905-

Letter, Dec. 9, 1953

Grinnell, Hilda (Wood)

Letter, Mar. 27, 1940

Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939

Letter, June 6, 1919. Copy of letter to S. T. Mather.

Gudde, Erwin Gustav, 1889-

Letter, Oct. 20, 1953

Hall, Eugene Raymond, 1902-

Letter, Jan. 13, 1942

Hand, Wayland Debs, 1907-

Letter, Nov. 19, 1953

Hubbs, Carl Leavitt, 1894-

Letter, Oct. 24, 1944

Hunter, Allen Armstrong, 1893-

Letter, n. d.

Jahn, Frances Floed

Letter, Nov. [19522]

Jahn, Theodore Louis, 1905-

Letter, Nov. 21, 1952

Jewett, Stanley Gordon, 1885-

Letter, Mar. 3, 1951

Karr, Harrison M.

Letter, Oct. 29, 1946

Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, 1867-1937

Letter, Oct. 11, [19]12

Marais, Miranda

Letter, June 23, 1953

Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

Letter, Apr. 26, 1920

Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934

Letter, Nov. 7, 1910

Popular Science Monthly

Letter, Aug. 20, 1918

Pycraft, William Plane, 1868-

Letter, Mar. 25, 1911

Romer, Alfred Sherwood, 1894-

Letter, Apr. 20, 1943

Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 1850-

Letter, Apr. 8, 1922

Sproul, Ida (Wittschen), 1891-

Letter, May 12, 1950

Stebbins, Robert Cyril, 1915-

Letter, May 26, 1949

Stock, Chester, 1892-

Letter, May 16, 1950

Stoddard, Herbert L.

Letter, Sept. 18, 1946

Sushkin, Peter Petrovich, 1868-1928

Letter, June 15, 1928

Syracuse University. New York State College of Forestry

Letter, Jan. 20, 1921

Van Tyne, Josselyn, 1902-1957

Letter, July 22, 1943

Varney, Burton Merrill, 1883-1943

Letter, May 2, 1930

Von Bloeker, Jack Christian, 1909-

Letter, Sept. 20, 1952

Wright, Harold Bell, 1872-1944

Letter, May 16, 1917

Allen, Bennet Mills, 1877-

3 letters, 1922-1950

Allen, Robert Porter

2 letters, 1949

American Game Protective and Propagation Association

8 letters, 1921-1923, by R. P. Holland

American Museum of Natural History

4 letters, 1912-1913, by W. D. Matthew

American Ornithologists' Union

2 letters, 1920-1930, by T. S. Palmer

Atkins, Charles Duke, 1876-

see Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

Belt, Elmer, 1893-

6 letters, 1942-1944

Benchley, Belle (Jennings), 1882-

4 letters, 1949-1955.

Additional Note

1949 and 1951 letters as executive secretary, Zoological Society of San Diego.

Benjamin, John Allison, 1906-

2 letters, 1944

Bogert, Charles Mitchill, 1908-

2 letters, 1945-1949

British Museum (Nat. Hist.)

5 letters, 1910-1911, by A. Smith Woodward.

Additional Note

Also included is undated photographic Christmas Card from Sir Arthur Woodward.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

2 letters, 1923-1924, by Charles D. Atkins

California. University, Berkeley. University Press

8 letters, 1941-1946, by David R. Brower, F. O. Kelsey, Harold A. Small and August Frugé.

Canada. Supt. of Wildlife Protection

2 letters, 1946-1947, by Harrison F. Lewis

Condit, Ira Judson, 1883-

2 letters, 1953

Cook, Harold James, 1887-

3 letters, 1951-1953

Dickey, Donald Ryder, 1887-1932

2 letters, 1925-1926

Frost, Lowell Chester, 1882-

2 letters, 1946-1951

Frugé, August, 1909-

see California. University, Berkeley. University Press

Goethe, Charles Matthias, 1875-

8 letters, 1916-1955. Some are copies only.

Holland, Raymond Prunty, 1884-

see American Game Protective and Propagation Association

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

4 letters, 1920-1925

Kaempffert, Waldemar Bernhard, 1877-1956

see Popular Science Monthly

Larson, Enid A.

4 letters, 1952-1954

Lewis, Harrison Flint

see Canada. Supt. of Wildlife Protection

Lindstrom, Ernest Walter, 1891-

see American Society of Naturalists

Lucas, Frederic Augustus, 1852-

5 letters, 1910-1912

MacFarland, Frank Mace, 1869-1951

2 letters, 1935

Mather, Stephen Tyng, 1867-1930

see U. S. National Park Service

Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930

see American Museum of Natural History

Merriam, John Campbell, 1869-1945

7 letters, 1910-1944

Moon, Frederick Franklin, 1880-

see Syracuse University. New York State College of Forestry

Moore, Robert Thomas, 1882-1958

3 letters, 1941-1951

Palmer, Theodore Sherman, 1868-1955

see American Ornithologists' Union

Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932

4 letters, 1909-1913.

Additional Note

Some written as curator, Division of Birds, Smithsonian Institution.

Rieber, Charles Henry, 1866-1948

6 letters, 1944-1947. Many undated.

Russell, Carl Parcher, 1894-

see U. S. National Park Service

Smithsonian Institution

see Wetmore, Alexander.

See also Richmond, Charles Wallace.

Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-

2 letters, 1950.

Additional Note

Apr. letter written as president, University of California.

Thomson, Sir John Arthur, 1861-1933

2 letters, 1930

U. S. National Park Service

3 letters, 1919-1946, by S. T. Mather and C. P. Russell.

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-

18 letters, 1917-1944.

Additional Note

Some written as acting secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

Woodward, Sir Arthur Smith, 1864-1944

see British Museum (Natural History)

Wright, Albert Hazen, 1879-

2 letters, 1942-1944