May, 1916.] THE ORCHID -REVIE\W. 121 
Seices | OBITUARY. Bec 
% GURNEY FOWLER.—Orchidology has suffered a severe Joss in the 
4. death, on April 24th, of Mr. J. Gurney Fowler, Treasurer of the 
koyal Horticultura! Society and Chairman of the Orchid Committee, at 
the age of sixty years, and after a very short illness. A week before 
Mr. Fowler was in his 
usual health, but an 
attack of influenza; 
followed by bronchitis 
and inflammation of 
the lungs, resulted in 
heart failure, and _ he 
passed away suddenly 
at>his residence, 
Brackenhurst, Pembury, 
on Monday night. For 
over twenty-two years 
the deceased has been 
an ardent Orchidist— 
it was in 1894 that 
Our correspondence 
began, and we may 
recall that in March 
of that year he 
received a Silver 
Flora Medal from the 
HS. for a large 
group of Oncidiums, 
Dendrobiums, &c., and 
another for a_ splendid 
specimen of Cattleya 
Triane. In October, 
1896, he exhibited a 
magnificent specimen of 
Vanda Sanderiana, to which a Gold Medal was awarded, and which 
Was figured as the frontispiece to our fourth volume. In 1898 he was 
elected a member of the Orchid Committee, and in 1902 became a Vice- 
chairman, and three years later was appointed Chairman, a position he 
held up to the time of his death. For many years Mr. Gurney Fowler 
Fig. 17. THE LATE MR. J. GURNEY FOWLER. 
