JuLy, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 217 
THE LATE MR. ABNER HASSALL. ; 
E very much regret to record the death on June 15th of Mr. Abner 
Hassall, after a very short illness. Born in Manchester, where he 
commenced his business career, he removed to London when quite a young 
man and became actively engaged as a manufacturing chemist. Mr. 
Hassall’s connection with Orchids goes back to 1898, in which year he was 
THE LATE MR. ABNER HASSALL, 
attracted by a sale at Messrs. Protheroe and Morris’ Rooms and became the 
possessor of a few plants. During the following year he purchased Orchids 
from Messrs. Stanley, Ashton & Co., Southgate, and at his residence at 
Bowes Park, within a couple of miles from their nursery, he formed a small, 
but select collection. In 1900 he became financially interested in this 
Orchid firm, Mr. Stanley going abroad for the purpose of collecting plants. 
Immense importations were received of Odontoglossum crispum, of which 
the handsome blotched variety called Abner Hassall gained an Award ot 
Merit at the Temple Show of 1901, and subsequently realised the high sum 
of 470 guineas at a sale of duplicate plants from Mr. H. T. Pitt’s collection 
