THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FERBUARY. 1914. 
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WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during 
February, on the roth and 24th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The Annual General Meeting will be held 
on the former date at 3 p.m. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on February 12th and 26th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
members.and the public from I to 4 p.m. 
The Report of the Council of the R.H.S. for 1913 opens with the 
following reference to Sir Trevor Lawrence :—- 
“The year 1913 began with the shadow, as it were, of gloom cast over 
it by the resignation of our President, and it has ended in the great sorrow 
of his death, which took place on December 22nd, within a few days of 
his 82nd birthday. Seldom, if indeed ever, has a Society been served by 
its President so long and so ably as the Royal Horticultural Society has 
been served by Sir Trevor Lawrence. Elected to the President’s seat in the 
very difficult days of the Society’s history in 1885, Sir Trevor has held the 
reins ever since, up to the spring of 1913, and has guided the Society with 
steadily increasing progress out of the quagmire of difficulties in which he 
found it into its present state of prosperity.” 
It also contains the following references to Orchids :— 
ORCHID REGISTER.—It has been decided to establish-a Register of 
Orchids, not only, but specially, for the sake of recording the parentage of 
Hybrids and of securing their correct and permanent nomenclature. Mr. 
R. A. Rolfe has been appointed Official Recorder. The Register will be 
carried back as far as possible by careful examination of old documents, 
and the Council hope that Orchid growers having private records of genera, 
species and hybrids, will assist the compilation by lending them to the 
Society to be copied for this purpose. The immediately pressing work of 
the Recorder, however, will be the entering up on the Register of every new 
Orchid shown, with particulars of its parentage, raiser, owner, &c., as far 
as is known. 
Cup For CatrLeyas.—Mr. E. H. Davidson has again very kindly 
presented a Cup for the best Cattleya in the Chelsea Show. 
LAWRENCE. MEDAL.—The Lawrence Medal for 1913 has been awarded 
to Mr. G. F. Moore, Bourton-on-the-Water, for his exhibit of Orchids on 
January 7th, 1913. 
