Miller, Hugh; Mackenzie, W. M. [Introduction and Notes]. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of My Education. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Way, & Mitchell, 1907. [11244]
Dark green publisher's cloth, bright gilt titles to front and backstrip, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, binding with slight signs of use, tight. 1908 gift inscription on ffep. B/w portrait frontispiece and several b/w plates. xix, [3], 558 pages; infrequent pencil marks in the margins, small bump to bottom corner of the last several leaves, title page hinge weak. Good. Hardcover.
Miller's autobiography, beginning with his childhood. It relates his failures in early life, his habits of observation, his religious experiences, the choice of a career, his literary pursuits, and his scientific contributions. The book was first serialized in the Presbyterian Witness newspaper, and published in book form in 1853.
Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish naturalist, geologist, Free Churchman, and editor.
“Miller was especially concerned to uphold by scientific methods the idea of God as Creator at a time when evolutionary views such as those put forward by Robert Chambers in the anonymous Vestiges of Creation were gaining ground.” – Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology.
Miller published Testimony of the Rocks as a response to Darwinism. Today he is considered to be one of Scotland's most influential Victorian paleontologists who not only made many new discoveries but was able to communicate the science to the average reader.
