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well-knowa plant colleetor, with whom he entered into a business 

 arraiii;-einent : Roezl to collect, and Sander to receive and dispose 

 of the specimens. 



Sander started in business on a ver}' modest scale in George 

 Street, St. Albans, but by 1873 KoezFs consignments of orchids 

 and other exotics became so extensive that he decided to erect a 

 suitable glasshouse, much of which was put up with his own 

 hands. The business proved so successful that in 1881 he 

 established the present large nursery outside the town of 

 St. Albans. At one time he employed no fewer than 23 col- 

 lectors in different parts of the world, and his importations 

 became so large that he held sales of orchids four days a week 

 in London. During this decade he established a branch in New 

 Jersey, U.S.A., but as the distance from home was great, it was 

 sold. In 1894 an important step was taken by founding a new 

 nursery at St. Andre, near Bruges, which grew into a large 

 undertaking, witli 100 glasshouses, 30 being given up to orchids; 

 his three sous were associated in the bu-^iness. 



The luxurious foUo volumes of ' Reiclienbachia ' were due to his 

 liberality: he received the Victoria Medal of Honour upon its 

 establishment, was Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of 

 Belgium, and was elected F.L.S. on the 2nd December, 1886. 

 He died at Bruges after an operation on 23rd December, 1920, 

 and was buried in the cemetery of St. Albans on the 30th of the 

 same month. [B. D. J.] 



Dr. Franz Steindachner, who was elected a Foreign Member 

 of the Linnean Society in 1887, died at Vienna on 10th December, 

 1919, aged 85. He was a student and friend of Louis Agassiz, 

 and devoted the greater part of his hfe to systematic ichthyology. 

 He was especially interested in freshwater fishes, and himself 

 made large collections during various journeys in Spain and 

 Portugal, California, and Brazil, Early he joined the staff of 

 the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where he arranged his 

 collections and prepared a long and valuable series of papers and 

 memoirs published chiefly by the Vienna Academy of Sciences. 

 His pioneer contributions to our knowledge of the freshwater 

 fishes of Spain, Portugal, and Brazil are especially noteworthy. 

 He also published some of the first detailed descriptions of fossil 

 fishes from the Tertiary formations of Austria. At the Museuii), 

 Steindachner took immediate charge of the reptiles and amphibians 

 as well as fishes, and he occasionally wrote on the new forms 

 received. In 1899 he was promoted to the directorship of the 

 Museum, which he held until his death. Notwithstanding his 

 arduous administrative duties, he still retained his enthusiastic 

 devotion to ichthyology, and he always seemed to have leisure to 

 meet and discuss his favourite study with his younger colleagues. 

 He lived in the official dwelling beneath the jNIuseum, and his 

 genial hospitality, for many years dispensed with the aid of his 



