Edward J. Miers
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Edward John Miers F.Z.S.
F.L.S. (1851–1930) was a British zoologist and curator
of the crustacean
collection at the Natural History Museum
in London
. He contributed to the scientific reports from the Challenger expedition
of 1872–1876, and described 32 new genera
and at least 260 new species
and subspecies
of decapod
crustaceans, along with four genera and 72 new species in other orders
.
Miers was born in Rio de Janeiro
, Brazil
in 1851 to the civil engineer
Francis Charles Miers and his wife. His grandfather was the engineer and botanist John Miers
, and his younger brother (born 1858) was the mineralogist Sir Henry Alexander Miers
. Francis Miers retired in 1860 and left South America
for England
, where Edward was educated at the Summerfield School
, Oxford
, before being sent for a year to the Academy in Lausanne
(which would later become the University of Lausanne
).
Miers was appointed curator of the crustacean collections at the Natural History Museum
in April or May 1872, taking over from Arthur Gardiner Butler
who had been curator of insect
s, crustacean
s, myriapods
and arachnid
s. Miers was charged solely with the Crustacea and "to act as amanuensis to Dr. Gray" (John Edward Gray
).
In the 1880s, the Natural History Museum was in the process of moving its collections from the main British Museum
site in Bloomsbury
to their new building in South Kensington
. During that time, Miers published his Catalogue of the stalk- and sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand in 1876 and revised the Plagusiinae, Hippidae
, Majidae
, Squillidae
and Idoteidae
in monograph
s dated 1878–1881, based on the museum's collections. He also reported on the collections donated by the Admiralty
from a number of voyages, including the survey of the coast of Japan
by H.M.S. Sylvia (1870–1877), an expedition to view the Transit of Venus
in Kerguelen
and Rodrigues
(1874–1875), a survey of the Galápagos Islands
by H.M.S. Petrel, Novaya Zemlya
by H.M.S. Isbjorn (1879), Baron Hermann-Maltzan's voyage to Gorée
in 1881, and the voyages of H.M.S. Alert
to Patagonia
and the Strait of Magellan
(1881–1882). The upheavals at his workplace and the quantity of work to be done may have taken their toll on Miers, and he was "completely prostrated with illness" for three months.
Miers was still working on material from the Alert expedition, when six boxes containing the crab
s from the Challenger expedition
arrived, sent by John Murray
. Describing these crabs would be Miers' largest taxonomic work, one which was published in 1886 as Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876 in 1886. Miers' honorarium
for this work was £63 (60 guineas
).
Miers tendered his resignation
on 30 October 1885. The curation of the crustacean collection was handed to Jeffrey Bell, but Bell only published one paper on crustaceans, and the task of curation was soon shared with Reginald Innes Pocock
. Miers lived to the age of 79, and died on 15 October 1930 at Burchetts Green, near Maidenhead
, Berkshire
.
A number of taxa
are named in Miers' honour:
Taxa named by Miers include:
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F.L.S. (1851–1930) was a British zoologist and curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of the crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
collection at the Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road...
in London
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. He contributed to the scientific reports from the Challenger expedition
Challenger expedition
The Challenger expedition of 1872–76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the mother vessel, HMS Challenger....
of 1872–1876, and described 32 new genera
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
and at least 260 new species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
and subspecies
Subspecies
Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...
of decapod
Decapoda
The decapods or Decapoda are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. It is estimated that the order contains nearly 15,000 species in around 2,700 genera, with...
crustaceans, along with four genera and 72 new species in other orders
Order (biology)
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.
Biography
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil
Brazil
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in 1851 to the civil engineer
Civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
Francis Charles Miers and his wife. His grandfather was the engineer and botanist John Miers
John Miers (botanist)
John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....
, and his younger brother (born 1858) was the mineralogist Sir Henry Alexander Miers
Henry Miers
Sir Henry Alexander Miers was a British mineralogist and crystallographer. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896...
. Francis Miers retired in 1860 and left South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
for England
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, where Edward was educated at the Summerfield School
Summer Fields School
Summer Fields is a boys' independent preparatory school based in Summertown, Oxford, England.-History:Originally called Summerfield, it became a Boys' Preparatory School in 1864 with seven pupils. Its owner, Archibald Maclaren, was a fencing teacher who ran a gymnasium in Oxford; he himself was...
, Oxford
Oxford
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, before being sent for a year to the Academy in Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
(which would later become the University of Lausanne
University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 12,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university...
).
Miers was appointed curator of the crustacean collections at the Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road...
in April or May 1872, taking over from Arthur Gardiner Butler
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Arthur Gardiner Butler was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist...
who had been curator of insect
Insect
Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...
s, crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
s, myriapods
Myriapoda
Myriapoda is a subphylum of arthropods containing millipedes, centipedes, and others. The group contains 13,000 species, all of which are terrestrial...
and arachnid
Arachnid
Arachnids are a class of joint-legged invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. All arachnids have eight legs, although in some species the front pair may convert to a sensory function. The term is derived from the Greek words , meaning "spider".Almost all extant arachnids are terrestrial...
s. Miers was charged solely with the Crustacea and "to act as amanuensis to Dr. Gray" (John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
).
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
site in Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury
-Places:* Bloomsbury is an area in central London.* Bloomsbury , related local government unit* Bloomsbury, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA* Bloomsbury , listed on the NRHP in Maryland...
to their new building in South Kensington
South Kensington
South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
. During that time, Miers published his Catalogue of the stalk- and sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand in 1876 and revised the Plagusiinae, Hippidae
Hippidae
Hippidae is a family of decapod crustaceans, commonly known as "mole crabs" or "sand crabs". They are closely related to the family Albuneidae, with which they are usually joined in the superfamily Hippoidea. The family Hippidae comprises the three genera Emerita, Hippa and Mastigochirus...
, Majidae
Majidae
Majidae is a family of crabs, comprising around 700 marine species with a carapace that is longer than it is broad, and which forms a point at the front. The legs can be very long in some species, leading to the name "spider crab"...
, Squillidae
Squillidae
Squillidae is a family of mantis shrimp, the only family in the superfamily Squilloidea . It contains the following genera :*Alima Leach, 1817*Alimopsoides Moosa, 1991*Alimopsis Manning, 1977b*Anchisquilla Manning, 1968a...
and Idoteidae
Idoteidae
Idoteidae is a family of isopod crustaceans. It includes the following genera:*Austridotea Poore, 2001*Batedotea Poore & Lew Ton, 1993*Cleantiella Richardson, 1912*Colidotea Richardson, 1899*Crabyzos Bate, 1863...
in monograph
Monograph
A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
s dated 1878–1881, based on the museum's collections. He also reported on the collections donated by the Admiralty
Admiralty
The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the Kingdom of England, and later in the United Kingdom, responsible for the command of the Royal Navy...
from a number of voyages, including the survey of the coast of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
by H.M.S. Sylvia (1870–1877), an expedition to view the Transit of Venus
Transit of Venus
A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun...
in Kerguelen
Kerguelen Islands
The Kerguelen Islands , also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting the emerged part of the otherwise submerged Kerguelen Plateau. The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands and the Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands are part of...
and Rodrigues
Rodrigues
Rodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language. It was originally a Patronymic, meaning Son of Rodrigo or Son of Rui. The "es" signifies "son of". The name Rodrigo is the Portuguese form of Roderick, meaning "famous power" or "famous ruler", from the Germanic elements "hrod" and "ric" ,...
(1874–1875), a survey of the Galápagos Islands
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...
by H.M.S. Petrel, Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya , also known in Dutch as Nova Zembla and in Norwegian as , is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the northern island...
by H.M.S. Isbjorn (1879), Baron Hermann-Maltzan's voyage to Gorée
Gorée
Île de Gorée Île de Gorée Île de Gorée (i.e. "Gorée Island"; is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. "commune of arrondissement") of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is a island located at sea from the main harbor of Dakar ....
in 1881, and the voyages of H.M.S. Alert
HMS Alert (1856)
HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name , and was noted for her Arctic exploration work; in 1876 she reached a record latitude of 82°N.-Construction:The...
to Patagonia
Patagonia
Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
and the Strait of Magellan
Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego...
(1881–1882). The upheavals at his workplace and the quantity of work to be done may have taken their toll on Miers, and he was "completely prostrated with illness" for three months.
Miers was still working on material from the Alert expedition, when six boxes containing the crab
Crab
True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...
s from the Challenger expedition
Challenger expedition
The Challenger expedition of 1872–76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the mother vessel, HMS Challenger....
arrived, sent by John Murray
John Murray (oceanographer)
Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS was a pioneering Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist.-Early life:...
. Describing these crabs would be Miers' largest taxonomic work, one which was published in 1886 as Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876 in 1886. Miers' honorarium
Honorarium
An honorarium is an ex gratia payment made to a person for their services in a volunteer capacity or for services for which fees are not traditionally required. This is used by groups such as schools or sporting clubs to pay coaches for their costs...
for this work was £63 (60 guineas
Guinea (British coin)
The guinea is a coin that was minted in the Kingdom of England and later in the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom between 1663 and 1813...
).
Miers tendered his resignation
Resignation
A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position. It can also refer to the act of admitting defeat in a game like chess, indicated by the resigning player declaring "I resign", turning his king on its side, extending his hand, or stopping the chess clock...
on 30 October 1885. The curation of the crustacean collection was handed to Jeffrey Bell, but Bell only published one paper on crustaceans, and the task of curation was soon shared with Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed...
. Miers lived to the age of 79, and died on 15 October 1930 at Burchetts Green, near Maidenhead
Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a town and unparished area within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies on the River Thames and is situated west of Charing Cross in London.-History:...
, Berkshire
Berkshire
Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...
.
Taxa
Taxon
|thumb|270px|[[African elephants]] form a widely-accepted taxon, the [[genus]] LoxodontaA taxon is a group of organisms, which a taxonomist adjudges to be a unit. Usually a taxon is given a name and a rank, although neither is a requirement...
are named in Miers' honour:
- Miersia Kingsley, 1880 — CarideaShrimpShrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...
: OplophoridaeOplophoridaeThe family Oplophoridae is a taxon of pelagic shrimps and the only subtaxon of the superfamily Oplophoroidea. It contains the following genera:*Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881*Ephyrina Smith, 1885*Heterogenys Chace, 1986...
(name suppressed in favour of Acanthephyra ) - Anchistus miersi (De Man, 1888) — CarideaShrimpShrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...
: PalaemonidaePalaemonidaePalaemonidae is a family of crustaceans of the order Decapoda. They belong to the infraorder Caridea, which contains the true shrimp; while some freshwater palaemonid species are known as "prawns", the family belongs to the suborder Pleocyemata like all true shrimp, whereas the true prawns are... - Metapenaeopsis miersi Holthuis, 1952 — DendrobranchiataPrawnPrawns are decapod crustaceans of the sub-order Dendrobranchiata. There are 540 extant species, in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian...
: PenaeidaePenaeidaePenaeidae is a family of prawns, although they are often referred to as penaeid shrimp. It contains many species of economic importance, such as the tiger prawn , whiteleg shrimp, Atlantic white shrimp and Indian prawn. Many prawns are the subject of commercial fishery, and farming, both in marine... - Paraceradocus miersi Pfeffer, 1888 — Amphipoda: Maeridae
- Parthenope miersi (A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898) — BrachyuraCrabTrue crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...
: Parthenopidae - Clorida miersi Manning 1968 — StomatopodaMantis shrimpMantis shrimp or stomatopods are marine crustaceans, the members of the order Stomatopoda. They are neither shrimp nor mantids, but receive their name purely from the physical resemblance to both the terrestrial praying mantis and the shrimp. They may reach in length, although exceptional cases of...
: SquillidaeSquillidaeSquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp, the only family in the superfamily Squilloidea . It contains the following genera :*Alima Leach, 1817*Alimopsoides Moosa, 1991*Alimopsis Manning, 1977b*Anchisquilla Manning, 1968a... - Pseudidothea miersi (Studer, 1884) — IsopodaIsopodaIsopods are an order of peracarid crustaceans, including familiar animals such as woodlice and pill bugs. The name Isopoda derives from the Greek roots and...
: Pseudidotheidae
Taxa named by Miers include:
- Alpheus novaezealandiae — a species of shrimpShrimpShrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...
- HexapodidaeHexapodidaeHexapodidae is a family of crabs, the only family in the superfamily Hexapodoidea. It has traditionally been treated as a subfamily of the family Goneplacidae, and was originally described as a subfamily of Pinnotheridae...
— a family of crabCrabTrue crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...
s - Hippolyte bifidirostrisHippolyte bifidirostrisHippolyte bifidirostris is a chameleon shrimp of the family Hippolytidae, endemic to Australia and New Zealand. It is found to depths of up to 36 metres. Its length is up to 40 mm.-References:...
— a species of shrimp - Justitia mauritianaJustitia mauritianaJustitia mauritiana is a species of spiny lobster, sometimes called the gibbon furrow lobster. It lives in the western Indian Ocean around the Mascarene Islands , and also around the Hawaiian Islands. Larvae supposed to belong to this species have been reported around the Philippines, the Gilbert...
— a species of spiny lobsterSpiny lobsterSpiny lobsters, also known as langouste or rock lobsters, are a family of about 45 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia... - ParamoeraParamoeraParamoera is a genus of amphipods in the family Pontogeneiidae. It contains the following species:*Paramoera aucklandica *Paramoera bidentata K. H...
— a genus of amphipod - ParathranitesParathranitesParathranites is a genus of crabs. It contains the following species:*Parathranites granosus Crosnier, 2002*Parathranites hexagonus Rathbun, 1906*Parathranites intermedius Crosnier, 2002*Parathranites orientalis...
— a genus of crabs - ParatyaParatyaParatya is a genus of freshwater shrimp of the family Atyidae, found in various islands in the Pacific Ocean. It contains 15 species, including the New Zealand freshwater shrimp Paratya curvirostris. The split between the North Pacific clade and the South Pacific clade has been estimated to have...
— a genus of shrimp - PorcellionidesPorcellionidesPorcellionides is a genus of woodlice in the family Porcellionidae. It includes the following species :*Porcellionides advena *Porcellionides antalyensis *Porcellionides approximatus...
— a genus of woodlouseWoodlouseA woodlouse is a crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs... - Portunus trituberculatusPortunus trituberculatusPortunus trituberculatus, the gazami crab, Japanese blue crab or horse crab, is the most widely fished species of crab in the world. It is found off the coasts of East Asia and is closely related to Portunus pelagicus.-Fishery:P...
— gazami crab - Potamonautes johnstoniPotamonautes johnstoniPotamonautes johnstoni is a species of freshwater crab in the family Potamonautidae. It is found in rivers in Kenya and Tanzania, with unconfirmed records from Malawi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The species' distribution includes Kilimanjaro, Nekona, Mrogoro and the Usambara Mountains....
— a species of terrestrial crab - TrapeziidaeTrapeziidaeTrapeziidae is a family of crabs. All the species in the family are found in a close symbiosis with cnidarians. They are found across the Indo-Pacific, and can best be identified to the species level by the colour patterns they display...
— a family of crabCrabTrue crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...
s - Upogebia danaiUpogebia danaiAcutigebia danai is a mud shrimp of the family Upogebiidae, endemic to the coastal waters of New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands.-Distribution:...
— a species of mud lobsterThalassinideaThalassinidea is an infraorder of decapod crustaceans that live in burrows in muddy bottoms of the world's oceans. In Australian English, the littoral thalassinidean Trypaea australiensis is referred to as the yabby , frequently used as bait for estuarine fishing; elsewhere, however, they are...
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