JAN.-FEB, 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 7 
EW OBITUARY. } 2 | 
ANIEL SIDNEY BROWN.—We much regret to hear of the death, 
on November 17th last, of this old and much esteemed American 
Orchidist, of St. Louis, Missouri. The news is conveyed in a press cutting 
sent by Messrs. Julius Roehrs, Rutherford, New Jersey, who remark that 
the deceased was one of our biggest fanciers of Orchids. The cutting bears 
the date, November 18th, 1919, and is as follows: “A blanket of Orchids 
to cover the top of the casket was sent to-day to the funeral of Daniel 
Sidney Brown, 66 years old, widely known as a collector of Orchids, by the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, to which Brown had given the larger part of 
his collection, rated as the best in America. Brown died at his home, 
5122, Washington Boulevard, at 12.50 p.m. yesterday, of paralysis. The 
funeral was held this afternoon from the home. There were 150 blooms of 
rare lady slipper Orchids in the floral blanket. All used were from the 
collection which Brown had donated. In this collection was a Cattleya 
from South America for which Brown paid $500. It happened that the 
plant was blooming at this time, and was used in the blanket.” We may 
add that Mr. Brown was an old correspondent of the Orchid Review, dating 
from June, 1896, and the possessor of a complete set of the work. 
J. J. NEALE.—Orchidology has suffered another severe loss in the death 
of J. J. Neale, Esq., of Oxton, Kenton, near Exeter, which took place on 
December 2gth last, after an operation for appendicitis, at the age of 65. 
For over thirty years Mr. Neale has been an enthusiastic Orchidist, 
commencing in a small way, then adding a number of plants secured 
at a sale at Bath, which formed the nucleus of his present large and varied 
collection. Our acquaintance with the deceased began early in 1897, when 
he became a subscriber to the Orchid Review. He was then resident at 
Penarth, Glamorganshire, cultivating his Orchids personally, but with the 
growth of the collection and theclaims of a business at Cardiff, he engaged 
Mr. E. W. Davy (afterwards at Kew, and now in Colonial Service in#frica), 
to assist him. In April, 1903, an account of the collection appeared in our 
pages (xi. pp. 10i, 102), when it contained over 400 distinct species, and an 
aggregate of about 2,000 plants. Since then we have frequently received 
flowers from him, as our pages will testify, largely species of botanical 
interest, varied with an occasional hybrid, the latter becoming more 
frequent as time went on. When Mr. Davy removed to Kew, Mr. H.. 
Haddon was engaged as gardener, and was with Mr. Neale until War 
service claimed him, after which he was followed by Mr. E. Swinden, 
formerly with Sir Trevor and Lady Lawrence. Mr. Neale’s removal to 
