Louis Compton Miall

Louis Compton MIall FRS (12 September 1842, Bradford – 21 February 1921, Leeds) was an English palaeontologist and biologist.

In 1857 Miall, under the direction of his father, kept a small day-school, teaching younger students. He independently studied zoology and geology, joined a botanical society at Todmorden, and published papers in various journals.^[1]

From 1871 to 1892 he was curator of the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. From 1876 to 1907 he was professor of biology at the Yorkshire College, which became the University of Leeds in 1887. In 1892 he was elected F.R.S. From 1904 to 1906 he was Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. At the annual meetings of the British Association he presided over the zoological section in 1897 and the education section in 1908.^[1]

He married in 1870^[1] and his wife died in 1918. There were three children from the marriage.^[2]

Selected publications

• with Frederick Greenwood (1827–1915):^[3] Anatomy of the Indian elephant. 1878.
• The skull of the crocodile: a manual for students. 1878.
• The geology, natural history and pre-historic antiquities of Craven in Yorkshire. 1878.
• with Thomas Edward Thorpe, Alexander Henry Green, Arthur William Rücker and Alfred Marshall: Coal its history and uses. 1878.
• The life and work of Charles Darwin. 1883.
• with Alfred Denny: The structure and life history of the cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis). 1886.
• Object lessons from nature. 1891; several editions^[4]
• Natural history of aquatic insects. 1895.
• Round the year: a series of short nature studies. 1896.
• Thirty years of teaching. 1897.
• with A. R. Hammond: The structure and life-history of the harlequin fly (Chironomus). 1900.
• Injurious and useful insects: an introduction to the study of economic entomology. 1902.
• House, garden and field: a collection of short nature studies. 1904; with illustrations by A. R. Hammond
• History of biology. 1911.
• The early naturalists: their lives and work (1530–1789). 1912.

References

1. "Louis Compton Miall, 1842–1921". Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B. 93: x–xix. 1922.
2. "Miall, Louis Compton". Who's Who: p. 1705. 1919.
3. "Obit. Colonel Frederick Greenwood". Br Med J. 1 (2836): 831. 8 May 1915. PMC 2302378.
4. "short notice of Professor Miall's Object Lessons from Nature". Nature Notes: The Selborne Society's Magazine. 5 (49): p. 14. January 1894.

External links

• Works by Louis Compton Miall at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)