Edward J. Miers

Edward John Miers FZS FLS (1851– 15 October 1930) was a British zoologist and curator of the crustacean collection at the Natural History Museum in London.

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 monographs 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.

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.

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.

The new Natural History Museum buildings, completed in 1880. Miers spent much of his time arranging for specimens to be moved here from Bloomsbury.
The voyages of H.M.S. Challenger provided the specimens for Miers' magnum opus .
Portunus trituberculatus , the most heavily fished crab in the world, was described in Edward Miers in 1876.