92 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | MARCH, 1914. 
from a dried specimen sent from Costa Rica by the late Richard Pfau 
(Rolfe in Kew Bull., 1894, p. 393). The leaves are generally over a foot 
long, and the single-flowered scapes about three inches long. The flowers 
are about two inches across, and greenish white, with a dark purple blotch 
on the disc of the lip, some similar markings at the base, and a few purple 
dots at the base of the column. The genus is closely allied to 
Warscewiczella.—R.A.R. 
Kier 
T the rroth Annual General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
held on February roth, Sir Harry J. Veitch, who presided, said: 
Since last we met at the Annual Meeting you are aware of the very 
grevious loss that the Society sustained in the death of our late 
President. It was moved at the last Council Meeting, and seconded and 
carried unanimously, that we should ask at the commencement of our 
meeting to-day that every Fellow present should rise and receive in silence 
the following resolution. 
The whole audience then rose, and the Chairman read the resolution :— 
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THE LATE SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE. Ae 4 
“The Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society in Annual Meeting — 
assembled this roth day of February, 1914, desire to express their great 
regret at the death of their late President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Baronet, 
RAV, VM. on. ee. 
““ They wish also to put on record their profound appreciation 
“(1) Of the most eminent services rendered by Sir Trevor to the 
Society during the very difficult days which beset the commencement of 
his Presidency in 1885 and the years that followed ; and also 
(2) Of the patience which he showed during the gradual building uP 
again of the Society during the middle period of his office ; and, lastly, 
““(3) Of the tact and wisdom with which he directed the Society’s 
affairs during the later years of its prosperity—a prosperity due in no small 
degree to the personality of its President. 
“It was Proposed by Sir Harry Veitch, V.M.H., and Seconded by J- 
Gurney Fowler, Esq., Treasurer, and carried in silence, all upstanding, 
‘That the above Resolution be entered in the Minute Book of the Society, 
published in the Journal and communicated to Lady Lawrence and to Sir 
William Lawrence, together with the address which had been prepared by 
the Council for presentation to Sir Trevor, but was delayed by his illness 
and death.’ ” 
The Chairman then alluded to Sir Trevor’s long and faithful services te 
the Society and to horticulture in general, and remarked: “‘ Sir Trevor, 45 
we all know, was a great lover of flowers. We knew him, perhaps, best 
