820 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 
The Orchid Review seems to be making progress: the September 
number contains descriptions of three new species— Masdevallia 
Yr. 
Rolfe, who, we learn from the Journal of the Horticultural Society, 
- For some thirty years Jenyns was incumbent of a 
Cambridgeshire parish (Swaifham, Bulbeck), where he manifested 
much energy and devotion to his clerical duties, whilst his favourite 
scientific studies were by no means neglected. In the year 1850 
on succeeding to certain family property. In 1855 he founded the _ ) 
Bath Natural History Antiquarian Field Club, of which he became ' 
the first President. “Hig contributions to its meetings, like most of 
his published works, were mainly zoological, but in 1866 he read to ; 
the Club a long paper on the Bath Flora, which is printed in the 
and magisterial business; and he kept his resolution to the end 
A somewhat extraordinary confession for a naturalist, contained in 
this information we are indebted to a notice by Mr. W. G. Wheat- 
croft, published in Nature Notes for the current month, 
