 Ethelbert Blatter, SJ, Principal and Professor of Botany at St Xavier's College, Bombay, wrote the series "Palms of India" for the "Journal".A few years later Blatter and Millard coauthored the series "Some Beautiful Indian Trees", resulting in a book of the same name, which has since become a classic, and remains in print.Salim Ali credited his initiation into ornithology as a young boy to Millard, who helped identify a yellow-throated sparrow he had shot.