288 Obituary — Fortescue William Millett. 



that to the best of his recollection he never heard the term laterite 

 applied by engineers in Southern India to anything but the weathering 

 products characterized by aluminium hydrates, etc. Last year 

 a geologist visited me who had spent some years in India. As we 

 were motoring one day he asked me what rock a certain road-metal 

 was. "That," I said, "is what we venture to call laterite." 

 "But," he replied, after examining it, "it is almost identical with 

 the Indian laterite I know." So perhaps we are not such sinners in 

 Malaya after all. 



J. B. ScRIVENOR. 



Batu Gajah, 



Federated Malay States. 

 April 15, 1915. 



OBITUARY. 



FORTESCUE WILLIAM MILLETT. 

 Born 1833. Deed February 8, 1915. 



Mr. F. W. Millett, chiefly known to geologists for his work on 

 the Foraminifera of the St. Erth Clays, was a man of few friends, 

 in whom he confided as an active worker on the more recent forms. 

 His main results were a series of papers on the Foraminifera of the 

 Malay Archipelago (Journ. Eoy. Micro. Soc, 1898-1905) and on the 

 Galway shores in conjunction with Mr. F. P. Balk will (Journ. 

 Micro. & JNat. Sci., iii, 1884). Millett was a great linguist, was 

 •deeply versed in the West of England dialects, and was a remarkably 

 well-informed man. But he was a recluse, made few friends beyond 

 his local circle, and was but rarely seen in London of late years. He 

 had a wide and thorough knowledge of his special subject and its 

 literature, but publication was a labour, and much of the work he did 

 died with him. He was 82. C. D. S. 



MISCELLAZSTEOUS. 



Valuable Addition to the Hull Museum. — Mr. C. S. Middlemiss, 

 F.G.S., Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, who was 

 ■a native of Hull and many years ago spent much time in investigating 

 the geology of East Yorkshire, has made a valuable addition to the 

 geological section of the Hull Museum. He has presented his entire 

 •collection, the specimens being all carefully labelled and catalogued, 

 and most of them refer to East Yorkshire. Some years ago 

 Mr. Middlemiss had an opportunity of examining the interesting 

 sections in the Kellaways Bock at South Cave, which were made 

 ■during the construction of the Hull and Barnsley Railway, and were 

 described in the Geological Magazine a at the time. The South Cave 

 specimens, together with many others from the red and white Chalk, 

 etc., are included, and in addition there is a valuable series of rocks, 

 with a catalogue giving full localities, etc. Mr. Middlemiss's 

 collection will be of great service to local geologists. 



1 See Walter Keeping and C. S. Middlemiss, " Bailway Sections at Cave, 

 Yorkshire": Geol. Mag., 1883, pp. 215-21. 



