Naomi A. H. Millard

Naomi Adeline Helen Millard, née Bokenham (16 July 1914, Green Point, Cape Town – 12 June 1997) was a South African biologist, one of the founders of the Zoological Society of South Africa and the Zoologica Africana Journal.[1]

Naomi Adeline Helen Millard
Born
Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham

(1914-07-14)July 14, 1914
Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa
DiedJune 12, 1997(1997-06-12) (aged 82)
NationalitySouth African
Occupationbiologist

Life

Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham was on 16 July 1914 in Green Point, Cape Town.[2] She graduated the Wynberg Girls’ High School and entered the University of Cape Town in 1932, completing a Master’s degree in 1935.[2]

In 1938, Bokenham married Arthur Millard and later settled in Pillans Road, Rosebank, raising a son and a daughter.[2]

In 1942, Millard was awarded a Ph.D. degree, and in 1946, she was appointed to the permanent staff as a lecturer.[2]

Career

In 1951, Millard published Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, south Africa in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.[3] By 1952, she was awarded a University Fellowship for the number and quality of her scientific publications.[2] In 1958, Millard was promoted to a senior lectureship and in 1963 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.[2]

From 1961 to 1972 Millard was an Honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.[4] In 1967, Millard published a work Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.[5]

In 1971, she retired from the University and joined the staff of the South African Museum as marine biologist studying South African hydroids.[2]

In 1972-1977 Millard was a Journal Editor of Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.[4] Another Millard’s work on hydroids was published in 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.[6] During her career she described over 100 South African taxa.[7]

In 1980, Millard was awarded the Gold Medal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.[2]

Naomi A. H. Millard died on 12 June 1997.[2]

Selected works
  • 1951 - Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, South Africa.
  • 1967 - Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.
  • 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.

Species named after Millard
  • Gymnangium millardi Ronowicz sp. nov.[8]

References
  1. Campos, Felipe Ferreira; Pérez, Carlos Daniel; Puce, Stefania; Marques, Antonio Carlos (2020-05-21). "Zygophylax naomiae Campos, Perez, Puce & Marques 2020, sp. nov". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Frssaf, A. C. Brown (1998-01-01). "Naomi A.h. Millard 1914–1997". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 52 (2): 437–441. doi:10.1080/00359199809520365. ISSN 0035-919X.
  3. Millard, Naomi (1951). "Observations and Experiments on Fouling Organisms in Table Bay Harbour, South Africa". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 33 (4): 415–446. doi:10.1080/00359195109519892.
  4. "History and Overview". Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA). Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  5. "Reference Summary - Millard, N.A.H., 1967". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  6. "Reference Summary - Millard, N.A.H., 1977". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  7. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  8. Ronowicz, Marta; Boissin, Emilie; Postaire, Bautisse; Bourmaud, Chloé Annie-France; Gravier-Bonnet, Nicole; Schuchert, Peter (2017-04-19). "Modern alongside traditional taxonomy—Integrative systematics of the genera Gymnangium Hincks, 1874 and Taxella Allman, 1874 (Hydrozoa, Aglaopheniidae)". PLOS ONE. 12 (4): e0174244. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174244. ISSN 1932-6203.
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