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Hugh Dinsmore Miser | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 December 1884 |
| Died | 1 August 1969 (aged 84) Washington, D.C. United States |
| Occupation | Geologist |
| Spouse | Mary Kate Goddard |
| Children | Catherine Miser |
| Parent(s) | Jordan Stanford Miser and Eliza Caroline Webb |
Hugh Dinsmore Miser (18 December 1884 - 1 August 1969) was an American geologist who made many contributions to geologyincluding publishing the first geologic map of post-statehood Oklahoma in 1927, as well as the revised map in 1954, and served as a geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for nearly his entire career.
Born in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, he attended the nearby University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he received a Bachelor's degree in geology in 1908, followed by a Master's degree in 1912. While an undergraduate student in 1907, Miser worked as an aide to Professor Albert H. Purdue surveying the geology of parts of Arkansas for the USGS. In 1910, he was appointed as a Junior Geologist with the USGS and married Mary Goddard, a resident of Fayetteville, Arkansas. After obtaining his Master's degree in 1912, he was promoted to Associate Geologist at the USGS, followed by Geologist in 1919. He temporarily left the USGS in 1919 to take the role as Acting State Geologist of Arkansas and to become a geology professor at the University of Arkansas while the college's only geology professor, Noah Fields Drake, was on leave[1][2]. Following the academic year, Miser returned to his duties with the USGS and soon began making a geologic map of Oklahoma.
In 1926, he took the role of Acting State Geologist of Tennessee.
1926USGS - Chief of the Section of Areal Geology
1928-Jul 1 1947USGS - Chief of the Fuels Branch
1954 OK map
1955 Scientific Staff Assistant to the Office of the Director of the USGS
Honors[edit]
Early in his career, Hugh Miser was elected as a Fellow in the Geological Society of America in 1916. In 1949, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Law from his alma mater, the University of Arkansas. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the United States Department of the Interior in 1955. He was a member of several professional organizations and held honorary memberships in many, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, New Mexico Geological Society, Oklahoma City Geological Society, Tulsa Geological Society, The Oklahoma Gem Society, and Sigma Gamma Epsilon.[1][3]
Tributes[edit]
Many geologic discoveries were named in honor of Hugh Miser, including:
Miserite, a mineral previously named natroxonotlite that was discovered in Arkansas.[4]
Calliglypha miseri, an extinct brachiopod.[5] (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere***)
Hustedia miseri, an extinct brachiopod. Mather, Kirtley (1916). The fauna of the Morrow Group of Arkansas and Oklahoma (PhD thesis). The University of Chicago. [5] (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere***)
Obolella miser, an extinct brachiopod. (***Not named after Hugh D. Miser; named in 1884, Miser born in 1884***)
Rhombopora persimilis var. miseri, an extinct brachiopod.[6] (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)
Stenopora miseri, an extinct bryozoan.[6] (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)
Tabulipora miseri, an extinct bryozoan.[7] (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)
Cravenoceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod[8] later reassigned to Stenoglaphyrites miseri[9], then Rhadinites miseri[10], then Euroceras miseri (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere, localities in Arkansas***)
Cycloplectoceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod.[11] (***no mention of Miser, but Arkansas localities***)
Cymoceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod.[12] (***Specifically named after Miser***)
Euroceras miseri, an extinct cephalopod.
Panderodus miseri, an extinct conodont.Craig, William (1968). The stratigraphy and conodont paleontology of Ordovician and Silurian strata, Batesville district, Independence and Izard counties, Arkansas (PhD thesis). The University of Texas. (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere, localities in Arkansas***)
Dendrograptus miseri, an extinct graptolite.[13] (***Specifically named after Miser***)
Conocephalites miser, an extinct trilobite, later reassigned to Ptychoparia miser, then Labradoria miseri. (***Not named after Hugh D. Miser; named in 1861***)
Calamites miseri, an extinct plant.[14] (***circumstantial, Miser mentioned elsewhere***)
- ^ a b Cohee, George (1970). "Memorial of Hugh Dinsmore Miser" (PDF). The American Mineralogist. 55 (3–4, part 2): 583–591.
- ^ Manger, Walter (6 July 2009). "Hugh Dinsmore Miser (1884-1969)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Hendricks, Thomas (1973). "Memorial to Hugh Dinsmore Miser, 1884-1969" (PDF). GSA Memorials. 1: 57–62.
- ^ Schaller, Waldemar (1950). "Miserite from Arkansas; a renaming of natroxonotlite" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 35 (9–10): 911–921.
- ^ a b Cloud, Preston (1948). "Brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician of Texas". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 100: 449–472.
- ^ a b Girty, George (1910). "New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 20 (3, pt. 2): 189–238.
- ^ Girty, George (1915). "The fauna of the Batesville Sandstone of northern Arkansas" (PDF). USGS Bulletin. 593: 170.
- ^ Gordon Jr., Mackenzie (1964). "Carboniferous cephalopods of Arkansas" (PDF). USGS Professional Paper. 460: 22, 30 pl.
- ^ Ruzhencev, Vasilii; Bogoslovakaya, Margarita (1971). "Namiurskii etap v evoliutsii ammonodei, rannenamiurskie ammonoidei". Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 133: 382.
- ^ Saunders, W. (1973). "Upper Mississippian ammonoids from Arkansas and Oklahoma". Geological Society of America Special Paper. 145: 110.
- ^ Ulrich, E.; Foerste, A.; Miller, A.; Furnish, W. (1942). "Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, part 1: nautilicones". Geological Society of America Special Papers. 37: 158.
- ^ McCaleb, James (October 1964). "Two new genera of Lower Pennsylvanian ammonoids from northern Arkansas" (PDF). Oklahoma Geology Notes. 24 (10): 233–237.
- ^ Decker, Charles; Gold, Irwin (1958). "Upper Cambrian graptolites from Virginia and Tennessee". Journal of Paleontology. 32 (3): 401–432 – via JSTOR.
- ^ White, David (1936). "Fossil plants from the Stanley Shale and Jackfork Sandstone in southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas" (PDF). USGS Professional Paper. 186-C: 47–67.