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will be careful not to reproduce a host of unnecessary names which are now 
current. If these could be consigned to the limbo of obscurity, whence they 
ought never to have emerged, the change would not have been made in vain. 
Half-a-dozen names for one and the same thing, as in the case of the hybrids 
between Paphiopedium barbatum and P. bellatulum, is a quite unnecessary 
luxury, as distinct variations can easily be distinguished by the addition ofa 
varietal name, if the specific name be formed according to the rules laid 
down, though not always followed. 
I am glad to see another protest against this unnecessary multiplicity of 
names in your last issue (page 360), and think the proposal that the Orchid 
Committee should go round and cancel all unnecessary names before the 
reporters go round a decidedly good one. I believe they already do some- 
thing in this direction, and they certainly might go a little further with 
advantage. I have two letters just to hand warmly commending the 
proposal, and in the hopes of seeing it carried out I propose that the writers 
be added to the Committee forthwith. 
I cannot conclude my present budget without alluding to the illustration 
of the magnificent specimen of Vanda Sanderiana given as a frontispiece to 
the last volume. A permanent record of such a specimen is invaluable, and a 
more life-life presentment it would be impossible to give. I hope to see 
many more such in the Review. 
ARGUS. 
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OBITUARY. 
ANOTHER of the older generation of Orchidists has passed away, in the 
person of Mr. Robert Warner, who died at Widford Lodge, Chelmsford, on 
December 17th, in his eighty-second year. For many years he was an - 
enthusiastic grower of Orchids, the beautiful Cattleya Mossiz being one of 
his special favourites, and it is recorded that as many as six hundred blooms 
have been expanded at one time in his collection. A series of the best of these 
varieties was described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, for 1864. In 1869 he 
took a fine collection of over fifty Orchids, all large specimens, to the great 
International Horticultural Exhibition at St. Petersburg, and although 
eight days were occupied by the journey, they arrived in excellent condition. 
His three volumes of Select Orchidaceous Plants are well-known and highly 
esteemed, and his name appears on each volume of the Orchid Album from 
the commencement. His name will be perpetuated in the beautiful 
Cattleya Warneri, which flowered for the first time in his collection in 1860. 
