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_ Messrs. Keeling & Sons, Bradford, staged Cypripedium Sunset, 
keighleyense, Bectonia, Eurybiades, and Overtonii. 
Exhibits from the Hon. Robert James, Richmond, Yorks (gr. Mr. J. 
Benstead) ; Col. Sir J. Rutherford, Bart., M.P., Blackburn (gr. Mr. Ji 
Lupton), and S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range (gr. Mr. J. Howes), are 
included in the above list of Awards. 
The Secretary regrets to report the death of John Leeman, Esq., of 
Heaton Mersey, one of the founders of the Society, and a most enthusiastic 
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WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during 
February, on the 12th and 26th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 11.45 a.m. The following meeting is fixed for March 12th. 
member and exhibitor for a number of years. 
e| ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meetings 
at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on February 7th and aist. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
members and the public from 1 to 4 0’clock p.m. The following meeting 
is fixed for March 7th. 
At the meeting of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee held on January 26th, 
the Chairman, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., referred in suitable terms to 
the loss that the Committee, and Orchidolgy in general, had sustained in 
the death of Mr. F. M. Ogilvie, The Shrubbery, Oxford, and moved a vote 
of condolence with his widow. He then remarked that he had a pleasant 
reference to make :— 
The Orchid Review, which gives so complete a historical account of all 
that concerns the world of Orchidology, has reached its twenty-fifth 
anniversary, and I am sure you will join me in hearty congratulations to 
the Editor, Mr. R. A. Rolfe— whom we are pleased to have with us on this 
auspicious occasion—upon the success from the Orchidists’ point of view of 
the Review upon which he has so assiduously laboured. . Probably he alone 
knows the amount of labour entailed. He took the work up when we were 
left in confusion as the result of the extraordinary conditions of 
Reichenbach’s Will, and we’owe him our acknowledgment and apprecia- 
tion. We trust that he may be able to continue the high standard of this 
essential and interesting journal in spite of the troublous times through 
which we are passing. I should like to say one word in respect to the 
