Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists:
Chrono-Biographical Sketches

Miller, Robert Rush (United States 1916-2003)
ichthyology, evolutionary biology

R. R. Miller was a leading ichthyologist of his time. A protegé of and frequent collaborator with Carl Hubbs (and his son in law), Miller's early field experiences in California led him to an interest in the desert pupfish, the systematics, distribution, and conservation of the species of which became a lifelong theme in his research. Miller's more than 250 publications treated a wide range of subjects within ichthyological natural history, including studies on zoogeography, life histories, paleogeography and paleoclimatology, variation, hybrid forms, etc., with a geographical emphasis on Mexican and Great Basin forms. Miller did a lot of consulting work, and became an especially well-known voice in the area of ichthyological conservation.

--born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on 23 April 1916.
--1934-1936: studies at Pomona College
--1938: A.B., University of California, Berkeley
--1939-1944: research assistant, University of Michigan
--1944: Ph.D. in zoology, University of Michigan
--1944-1948: associate curator of fishes, Smithsonian Institution
--1948: publishes "The Zoological Evidence: Correlation Between Fish Distribution and Hydrographic History in the Desert Basins of Western United States" in The Great Basin; With Emphasis on Glacial and Postglacial Times, with C. L. Hubbs
--1948-1954: assistant professor of zoology, University of Michigan
--1948-1959: associate curator of fishes, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
--1954-1959: associate professor of zoology, University of Michigan
--1960: made professor of biological sciences, University of Michigan
--1960: made curator of fishes, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
--1961: publishes "Man and the Changing Fish Fauna of the American Southwest" in the Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
--1965: president, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
--1965-1979: chairman, Desert Fishes Council
--1966: publishes "Geographical Distribution of Central American Freshwater Fishes" in Copeia
--1973-1974: Guggenheim fellow
--1975: receives distinguished service award from the American Fisheries Society
--1989: publishes "Extinctions of North American Fishes During the Past Century" in Fisheries, with J. D. Williams and J. E. Williams
--1994: receives Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
--dies on 10 February 2003.
--2004: posthumously publishes his Freshwater Fishes of Mexico, with W. L. Minckley and S. M. Norris

--Copeia, (4) (2003): 910-916.
--Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Vol. 12(2-3) (2002): 113-118.