James Millar

Dr James Millar (or Miller) (1762–1827) was a Scottish physician, botanist and author. He edited the fourth and fifth editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Although a good writer on scientific topics, he was deemed a poor chief editor of the Britannica, being "slow and dilatory and not well qualified". Life He was born in Ayr on the western Scottish coast on 4 February 1762.