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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



FORTESCUE WILLIAM MILLETT, F.G.S., F.R.M.S. 



Born November Sth, 1833; died February Sth, 1915. 



It is with feelings of great regret we have to record the death, 

 in his eighty-second year, of Mr. F. W. Millett, which took place 

 on February Sth at his residence in Brixham, Devon. 



Mr. Millett was a native of Marazion, in Cornwall, and when 

 about twenty years of age came to reside in London. From 

 an early age he was of a studious nature, and his connection 

 with the Quekett Microscopical Club he joined at its foundation 

 in July 1865 fostered an early taste for microscopical work. 

 He was elected F.R.M.S. in 1880, and in 1883 left London 

 to reside in Cornwall. From about that date the study of the 

 Foraminifera became his principal life-work. 



His first paper, "The Foraminifera of Gal way," written in 

 collaboration with F. P. Balkwill, was published in the Journal of 

 Microscopy and Natural Science in 1884. It was a paper of 

 considerable zoological importance, but the lithographed plates 

 were very poor, and it is not surprising that Millett later revised 

 the paper and issued it in 1908 as a private reprint with half- 

 tone reproductions of the original excellent drawings. Between 

 1885 and 1902 Millett published a series of short papers on the 

 Foraminifera of the Pliocene Beds of St. Erth, Cornwall, which 

 obtained for their author recognition from the Royal Geological 

 Society of Cornwall in the form of the William Bolitho gold 

 medal. But his future reputation will rest principally and 

 securely on his " Report on the Recent Foraminifera of the Malay 

 Archipelago," which appeared in the Journal of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society at intervals between 1898-1904. This 

 monograph, illustrated profusely by the author, dealt with a new 

 zoological area and contained descriptions of many new and 

 interesting forms. But its chief value to the student lies in the 

 careful research work embodied in the author's bibliographical 

 references to the numerous species which he recorded from the 

 material examined. This was unquestionably Millett's strongest 



