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The Orchid Review. This periodical, which must have proved 
a great boon to orchidologists, appeared continuously till the 
close of last year, and has therefore a longer history than any 
other of its kind. He edited and to a large extent wrote the 
twenty-eight annual volumes published. The work connected 
with The Orchid Review and much of a like character, per- 
formed in the intervals between official hours, must have taxed 
him to a degree that very little time could have remained for 
other interests or for recreation. He had valuable help in 
preparing The Orchid Review for the press and in distributing it 
on publication from Mrs. Rolfe and his daughter. 
Rolfe’s work was by no means limited to the Orchidaceae. 
He investigated many widely different groups of plants, and his 
interest in plant-galls, especially those of the oak, persisted to 
the end. The families Myoporinaceae and Selaginaceae as well 
as the Orchidaceae, were prepared by him for the African Floras, 
and he paid some attention to the Rosaceae, more particularly to 
the genera Rosa and Rubus. During the first few years in the 
Herbarium he collaborated with Vidal in determining the large 
collections made by Cuming and by Vidal himself in the Philip- 
pine Islands. More recently he spent much time on the material 
which arrived, in almost embarrassing profusion, from the same 
islands, and on F. C. Lehmann’s collection from Colombia and 
Ecuador. Preparing matter for publication, though an important, 
is a relatively small part of the work of the Herbarium Staff. 
Rolfe had a liberal share of the routine duties to attend to, and 
on every side we find the trace of his hand. He was extremely 
careful as to details; an identification attributable to him may, 
as a rule, be trusted. 
~The problems connected with the hybridisation of plants 
proved alluring to Rolfe, and he devoted much careful study to 
them. He took part in the conferences on hybrids organised by 
the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899 and 1906, and with 
Mr. C. C. Hurst produced in 1909 “ The Orchid Stud Book: an 
enumeration of hybrid orchids of artificial origin,’—a most 
ainstaking work. He acted as judge at the Ghent Quinquennial 
Exhibitions of 1898, 1903 and 1908, and at the Florence Inter- 
national Exhibition of 1911. 
Rolfe was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society in 1885 
and an Honorary Fellow and Member of the Scientific Committee 
of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1906. From the last- 
named Society he received the Victoria Medal as recently as 
February last; about the same time he was also awarded the 
Gold Medal of the Veitch Memorial Trust Fund, and in 1917 the 
Medal of L’Académie Internationale de Botanique. 
Portraits of Rolfe have been published in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle of February 12th and April 23rd, 1921 (the same 
portrait in both issues), and in the Journal of the Kew Guild, 
1911-12. Naturally several species of orchids and other plants 
have been named in compliment to him; also the genera Rolfea, 
Zahibruckner, an orchid from British Guinea, which Rolfe had 
