THE ORCHID REVIEW. = 
We have received the new edition of the Collection of Cypripediums of 
R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, brought down to June 
last, which we learn has been revised with the help of Messrs. F. Sander 
& Co. It now extends to 203 pages of waistcoat-pocket size, and is over 
half-an-inch thick. It is very useful as a means of ascertaining the history 
of any given plant, but it would have been handier to use if the 27 pages 
of “ Addenda ’’ had been incorporated in the body of the work. Here we 
note over a page of additional named varieties of C. insigne, making an 
aggregate of over 150, though it is difficult to see what useful purpose 
thirteen pages of names without additional information can serve. 
The Decennial Congress of Botanical Science of Belgium has, by Royal 
‘Warrant of July 4th, 1899, awarded to Professor A. Cogniaux, of Verviers, 
a prize of 5,000 francs for botanical work accomplished between 1892 and 
1898, including the Orchids of the Flora Brasiliensis, and the Dictionnaire 
Iconographique des Orchidées. 
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, by a degree signed at Laeken on 
June 27th last, has conferred on Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., Editor 
of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, the honour of Officer of the Order of Leopold. 
The President and Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have 
awarded a Victoria Medal of Horticulture to Mr. James Douglas, in place 
of the late Malcolm Dunn. The honour is well deserved, as Mr. Douglas’ 
services to Horticulture, including Orchidology, are well known. 
A pretty white form of Cattleya Mossiz with some lilac veining on the 
lip in front of the yellow disc, is sent by Mr. G. Bayer, of Hamburg. 
It is allied to C. M. Reineckeana. 
DIES ORCHIDIAN. 
he event of the past month, 
It is too soon at present to 
port will be 
Tue Hybridisation Conference was certainly t 
and on the whole passed off very successfully. 
estimate the aggregate results, and the appearance of the full re 
awaited with interest. So far as Orchids are concerned, however, I must 
confess to a little disappointment that the occasion did not produce more 1n 
the way of novelty. Of course, hybrid Orchids are not made 1 
there is no known means of getting them to flower to order, or the result 
would have been different. There were some novelties—at all events, I do 
not remember to have met with them before—and I am curious to know 
Which of them will secure the Veitch Memorial Medal. The awards of 
the Orchid Committee have been published, but those of the Special or) 
mittee appointed for this occasion are, I believe, not yet announced. O 
na day, and 
