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point, for he had devoted a lifetime to the collation and 

 assimilation of the work of his predecessors, both British and 

 foreign, and no man had a wider knowledge of the subject, or 

 was more ready to place it at the disposal of fellow-workers. 



With the death of F. W. Millett parses almost the last 

 survivor of the famous band of systematists who have made 

 British research into the Foraminifera famous throughout the 

 world. Started by Williamson and continued by the famous 

 collaborators W. K. Parker, Rupert Jones and H. B. Brady, 

 and by the equally distinguished W. B. Carpenter, their 

 systematic work has reduced to a more or less exact if artificial 

 science the chaos in which the group had previously existed. 

 Millett assisted Brady in the preparation of the great 

 "Challenger" report (1884), to what extent it is impossible to 

 say, but probably he was largely responsible for the elaborate 

 synonymies which render that report so valuable. He also 

 collaborated in the Monograph of the Foraminifera of the Crag, 

 published by the Palaeontographical Society, and here his 

 systematic work is more easily traced. If his total output of 

 publications is small as compared with other workers in the 

 group, it was largely due to the painstaking care which he 

 lavished on his work. Few rhizopodists will be less revised by 

 the publications of their successors than F. W. Millett, and after 

 all that is the real test of scientific work. 



