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reference to previous awards, and this we think is likely to promote 
individual excellence, which is no less important than the search after 
novelty. Meetings abroad have also been well supported, and our readers 
will remember that even in India a National Orchid Society has been 
formed with similar objects in view. 
CHANGES. 
Many changes have taken place during the past year. No less than four 
members of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee have been removed by death, 
Major Mason, Sydney Courtauld, W. H. Protheroe, and Alfred Outram, 
and in a similar way the Manchester Society has lost one of its promoters 
and a warm supporter in the late Henry Greenwood, and this has led to 
the dispersal of three well-known collections. We have also to mourn the 
loss of James Anderson, Richard Moore, (>. Warocqué, F. Canham, and 
among names perhaps less widely known in the Orchid world, though 
staunch supporters of the present work, Mrs. W. L. Barclay, of Reigate, and 
John Riley, J.P., of Burnley. But such losses are inevitable, and their 
places will doubtless be filled with younger enthusiasts, who will achieve 
fresh laurels in the culture of these beautiful plants, which we believe 
are destined to attain still greater popularity than at present. In 
the achievements of the past we may find plenty of encouragement for the 
future, and we may conclude with the hope that the coming season may be 
one of continued progress, and by wishing all our readers 
Happy New YEAR. 
OBITUARY. 
W. H. PRoTHEROE.—We regret to hear of the death, on December 2nd 
last, of Mr. William Henry Protheroe, senior partner in the well known 
firm of auctioneers and estate agents, Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, of 
Cheapside. Orchid sales comprise one of the chief branches of the firm’s 
business, and in this connection the deceased was well known to many of 
our readers. He was also a member of the Orchid Committee of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, and in both capacities he was widely esteemed, 
for his geniality of manner was as marked as his business capacity. Mr. 
Protheroe was born at Leytonstone in 1846, and thus was fifty-three years 
old at the time of his death, and although he had been in failing health for 
some time past he may be said to have literally died in harness, for on Nov. 
29th and 30th he was officiating at the sale of the late Mr. Sydney 
Courtauld’s Orchids, and the fatal seizure is said to have taken place less 
than an hour before his death. 
