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Authorised form of nameMiers; John (1789 - 1879)
Dates1789 - 1879
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth25 August 1789
Place of deathAddison Road, Kensington, London
Date of death17 October 1879
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/03/1843
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1854 - 1856
RelationshipsGrandfather of Sir Henry Alexander Miers (FRS 1896)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1879 vol 29 pp xxii-xxiii
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/8154761
CodeNA7532
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1843/09Miers, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/682/23Letter from John Miers, 111 Strand, to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth15 January 1817
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
RR/2/107Referee's report by John Miers, on a paper 'On the structure of certain limestone nodules enclosed in seams of bituminous coal, with a description of some trigonocarpons contained in them' by Joseph Dalton Hooker and Edward William Binney 3 February 1855
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