128 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1915, 
gees | ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. Coeds 
WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during 
April, on the 13th and 27th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The Manchester & North of England Orchid Society will hold meetings 
at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on April Ist, 15th, and 2oth. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection of 
members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
Horticulture of March 6th states that one of the exhibits that is attracting 
much attention at the Great Exhibition at San Francisco is that of Orchids 
in the Philippine Islands building, which was formally dedicated February 
26th. This exhibit contains over 4,000 specimens, and is valued at about 
20,000 dollars. Many of the varieties, it is said, are being shown in this 
country forthe first time. 
DESTRUCTION OF AN ORCHID COLLECTION.—We regret to learn, from 
the February issue of Journal of the Société Nationale d’Horticulture de 
France (p. 18) that during the bombardment of Arras the Orchid houses of 
M. Alfred Le Gentil were completely destroyed. They contained a fine 
collection, chiefly of the Ancectochilus group, including about roo plants of 
some thirty species and varieties of the genera Ancectochilus, Macodes, 
Hemaria, Dossinia, Goodyera, and others. 
THe HicHBuRY OrcHID CoLLEcTIoN.—The famous Orchid collection 
formed by the late Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., will be sold by 
auction on April 15th and 16th, by Messrs. Protheroe & Mornin at their 
Central Sale Rooms, Cheapside. 
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Photograph received, with thanks, WE 
Received.—J. ES. 
Several notes and beat are unavoidably postponed. 
