34 THE ORCHID. REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1y15. 
held on December roth, and it was decided that the general meetings of the 
Society and of the Committees should be resumed, on the second Thurs- 
-day in each month. ©.The Council unanimously agreed that all ordinary and 
corresponding members of German and Austrian nationality, together with 
affiliated Societies of those nationalities, be struck off the list. This 
excludes sixteen German and five Austrian members, besides severing the 
connection with eleven affiliated Societies, all but one of which are German. 
The Journal contains accounts of the fortnightly -meetings held in July, and 
of some meetings elsewhere, but there is little about Orchids. 
After an enforced suspension of four months the Revue Horticole has 
made its reappearance, the number containing various items of war news, of 
which the following is the only one relating to Orchids :— 
Dr. Jean Gratiot, of Ferté-sous-Jouarre, who recorded in June last some 
interesting Orchid seedlings, has preserved his greenhouses intact; his 
residence alone has been damaged by a shell, and the Germans, during their 
Stay in the town, did not touch his plants. 
There is also an account of the meeting of the Société Nationale 
d’Horticulture de France for January 15th, but no mention is made of any 
Orchid exhibits. Another issue is announced for February. 15th, after 
which the Revue will be continued bi-monthly, though it is feared that it 
may have to be in a somewhat curtailed form for the present. 
As to German periodicals and the doings of the German Orchid Society 
we have heard nothing. ., The Gardeners’ Chronicle, however, in its issue of 
December 19th last, under the title of ‘‘Nomenclature and Anger,” calls 
attention to a proposal made in Moller’s Deutsche Gartner-Zeitung that in. 
future the names of French and English novelties should be translated into 
German, and regrets that one of the leading horticultural papers in Germany 
should admit contributions of a kind which, though they find their way into 
the irresponsible press of all countries, are to be deplored when they appear in 
responsible journals. And it remarks, “if the new spirit leads to these 
outbursts we may hope that when.cooler moments come the German 
horticulturists may prefer to retain the old—the spirit which made for 
brotherliness and friendly emulation and mutual respect.”” We desire to 
associate ourselves with such a dignified protest. 
An unfortunate delay occasioned by the war is the International 
Botanical Congress which had been arranged to be held in London next 
May. A meeting of the Organising Committee was held at the Linnean 
Society’s rooms on January 21st, when a report was given of the work of 
preparation which had already been carried out by the Executive 
