2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Jan.-FEB., 1920. 
One might speak of progress in Hybridisation, for hybrids, practically 
speaking, monopolise the Award List. It is true there were five exceptions, 
but they were all Cultural Commendations given to exceptionally well- 
grown examples of wild species, namely: Aérides odoratum album, 
Bulbophyllum — Balfourianum, Cattleya Mossiz Arnoldiana, Lelia 
monophylla, and Sarcopodium acuminatum. As to the hybrids themselves, 
they were mainly representatives of well-known popular genera, which it 
would take far too long to summarise. We may, however, mention two 
new hybrid genera, which have been named in accordance with the rule 
applicable to such cases. These were Charlesworthiara, derived from 
Miltonioda X Oncidioda, and thus combining the three genera, Cochlioda, 
Miltonia, and Oncidium, and Rolfeara, from Sophrocattleya x Brasso- 
cattleya, thus uniting Brassavola, Cattleya, and Sophronitis. 
Coming to interesting events, we note the successful termination of an 
experiment to prove the parentage of the hybrid Odontoglossum 
Humeanum, which occupied no fewer than nineteen years. The history 
has been fully recorded, and the award of a Certificate of Appreciation was 
a fitting conclusion to the experiment. The appearance of female flowers 
of Catasetum Rodigasianum at the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, was 
another interesting event. An important contribution to the history of the 
remarkable genus Cycnoches has been made by our Central American 
friends, Mr. C. H. Lancester and Mr. C. W. Powell, the former in re- 
discovering the long-lost Cycnoches Diane, Rchb. f., and the latter in 
obtaining flowers of both sexes, the females being previously unknown. 
Two papers on British Natural Hybrids must not be overlooked, for the 
result of prolonged research has shown that no fewer than fifteen natural 
hybrids have been identified within the confines of the United Kingdom, 
and their histories have now been given. The recognition of the remark- 
able Arachnanthe Lowii as a distinct genus may also be mentioned, and the 
contributions to the history of Mendelism, contained in our two last issues, 
which show that Mendel’s discoveries were anticipated by three of our own 
countrymen, and by a period of over forty years. 
Losses during the year itichude such old and well-known names as Mr. 
Robert Johnson, Mr. William Swan, Sir Frank Crisp, and Mr. J. J. Neale, 
while the United States has to deplore the death of Mr. D. S. Brown, for 
many years one of its leading Orchidists. 
Of the future we can only speak in terms of hope. The great need of the 
future is security, and one cannot contemplate the recurrence of such 
another calamity as the world has just passed through. A contemplation 
