OcTOBER, 1917.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 219 
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| issue for April last contained (pp. 75-79) an account of the Orchid 
work of the late Dr. John Lindley ; in the present one we propose to 
speak of that of his successor, Prof. H. G. Reichenbach, of Hamburg, who, 
during a period of nearly forty years, described such an enormous number 
of novelties, and whose final act of sealing up his Herbarium for a quarter 
of a century has already been dealt with very fully (see O.R., xxi. pp. 
273-278, 299-301; XxXll. pp. 125-130, 206-207). 
Reichenbach commenced his study of the family with the European 
Orchids, his first work, entitled ‘‘ Tentamen Orchidographia Europee,” 
appearing in 1851, being one of the volumes of his father’s great work, the 
Flora Germanica. This he both wrote and illustrated, and in the preface 
he remarked that for ten years he had devoted himself to their study, so 
that he must have commenced as a boy of eighteen, for he was born on 
January 3rd, 1823. The work occupies a quarto volume, and is dedicated 
to Sir William Hooker, Dr. Frederick Klotzsch, and Dr. John Lindley. 
His earliest published paper was an account of the Mexican Orchids 
collected by Liebold, which appear in Linnea, in 1844, in which several 
new species were described. This was soon followed by a series of papers 
entitled ‘‘ Orchidographische Beitrage,’’ which appeared in the succeeding 
and three later volumes of the same serial publication. In it many new 
Orchids were described from various sources. In 1849 he also published 
in Linnea an account of a set of Tropical American Orchids from Dr. F. 
Klotzsch, these having been obtained by various collectors. 
In 1852 he published, in the Botanische Zeitung, a series of five papers 
entitled ‘“‘ Gartenorchideen, this being preceded by four short papers on 
other Orchids. A few of the plants are recorded as from Continental 
collections, but the majority appear to have been described from dried 
specimens. In the same volume we find a set of three papers, entitled 
““Neue Orchideen der Expedition des Herrn J. de Warsczewicz,” the 
plants being chiefly Central American. Here, it may be noted, was 
described the handsome Odontoglossum chiriquense, which was figured at 
page 177 of our last volume. 
In 1852 also appeared his essay on the Origin and Structure of Orchid 
pollen, this being illustrated by two plates. It includes a brief sketch of the 
tribes of Orchids, and a short paper on Catasetum and Cycnochés. 
Soon afterwards commenced a series of papers in Bonplandia, dealing 
mostly with collections of dried Orchids. In 1854 appeared papers on the 
Orchids collected by Wagener in Venezuela, an additional series from 
