Edmund Morris Miller (1881-1964) was born in South Africa and grew up in Melbourne. He joined the Public (now State) Library of Victoria in 1900, and studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating BA in 1905, MA in 1907, and DLitt in 1919.;;Now best known for his pioneering bibliographical works Australian literature from its beginnings (1940) and Pressmen and governors: Australian editors and writers in early Tasmania (1952), his interests and career ranged widely.;;His political interests led to him becoming secretary to the Imperial Federation League in 1907. After travelling overseas, he began publishing articles and pamphlets in philosophy and politics. Instrumental in the formation of the Library Association of Victoria, he published Libraries and education (1912) the first Australian book on librarianship.;;In 1913 he was appointed lecturer in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Tasmania, where he was an active supporter of the university library, and a founder of the Workers' Educational Assocation of Tasmania.;;Increasingly interested in psychology, he was appointed first Director of the State Psychological Clinic in 1922, and Professor of Psychology and Philosophy in 1928. He was President of the Royal Tasmanian Institute for the Blind, Chair of the Mental Defficiency Board, President of the Australasian Association for Psychology and Philosophy, a Trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library, and a founder of the Library Association of Australia. In 1933, largely due to his community activities, he was elected Vice Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. He was appointed CBE in 1962.;;