JuLy, ror] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 197 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Harry Boivus.—South African Botany, and Orchidology in particular, 
has sustained a great loss by the death of Dr. Harry Bolus, F.L.S., of 
Sherwood, Kenilworth, Cape Town, which took place at Oxted, Surrey, on 
May 25th. The deceased, who was 77 years of age, had long been a keen 
student of South African plants, and will be remembered by many of our 
readers as the author of the illustrated works, Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, 
and Orchids of South Africa. He also contributed papers to the Journal of the 
Linnean Society, and the Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 
and altogether has described a large number of new species, besides adding 
materially to our knowledge of the distribution of existing ones. Dr. Bolus 
was born in England in 1834, but went to South Africa when quite young, 
settling at Graaf Reinet, in the centre of Cape Colony, whence he removed 
to Cape Town about thirty years ago. He made numerous collecting trips, 
and amassed a large Herbarium, distributing duplicates liberally to Kew 
and other botanical institutions. He was a frequent visitor to England, of 
late years being always accompanied by his niece, Miss L. Kensit, B.A., who 
has long assisted him in all his work. Dr. Bolus succumbed rather suddenly 
to heart failure about a fortnight after his arrival in England, and was 
interred at Oxted on May 27th. He was a liberal patron of Botany, and 
some years ago founded and endowed a Professorship of Botany at the 
University of South Africa, to which institution his valuable herbarium and 
library are bequeathed. Several Orchids and other plants have been named 
after Dr. Bolus, and his name is further commemorated in Bolusia, a South 
African genus dedicated to him by Mr. Bentham in 1875. 
REVIEW OF BOOK, 
Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum extratropicarum, or figures, with 
descriptions, of extra-tropical South African Orchids. By Harry Bolus 
F.L.S., Hon. D.Sc. (Cape). Vol. ii. William Wesley & Son, 28, Essex 
Street, Strand, London. 
Fifteen years have elapsed since the completion of the first volume of 
this work, and now a second volume has appeared. The delay, the Author 
explains, has arisen from causes beyond his own control, viz., advancing 
years and ill-health, and there is a pathetic interest in an announcement 
preceding the title page: “‘ The last pages of this book were finally corrected 
by the Author on the eve of his death.” The volume contains one hundred 
plates, mostly partly coloured, and the Author remarks: “TI have 
endeavoured to draw the Orchids here figured from living plants only, and 
have succeeded in a large proportion of cases in doing so, yet this naturally 
presents many difficulties.” 
