SEPTEMBER, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 275 
collection falls under the same conditions to the Botanical Garden at 
Upsala. Should the last-mentioned Institute decline the legacy, then to the 
Grayean Herbarium in Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. If declined 
by that Institute, then to the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, but always 
under the same conditions, viz., of being sealed up for twenty-five years, in 
order that the inevitable destruction of the costly collection, resulting from 
the present craze for Orchids, may be avoided.” 
In commenting on the same it was remarked: ‘‘ The subjoined extract 
from the will of the late Professor Reichenbach . . . will be received 
with profound regret. The late Professor had at all times the fullest and 
freest access to Dr. Lindley’s Herbarium in the lifetime of that botanist, 
and subsequently for the last twenty or more years at Kew. The resources 
of that establishment were always at his disposal, while from hundreds of 
Orchid growers in this country he received freely and continuously material 
for his researches. The notes and memoranda on living plants received, 
directly or indirectly, from this office alone must have been very consider- 
able, even if they did not form the bulk of the material at his disposal. It 
would be affectation to pretend that we do not receive the announcement 
‘we have now to make with chagrin and sorrow. The future task of 
Orchidists in this country is, by this step, rendered peculiarly laborious and 
perplexing.” 
The article concluded: ‘‘ Though we may deeply regret that Professor 
Reichenbach has clouded his memory with an act which shows equal 
‘distrust of the generosity of his fellow botanists and of the strength of his 
own scientific reputation, we may rest assured that the scientific study of 
Orchids in this country will not be arrested, but that the rich material 
which this country, more than any other, affords will not be neglected, 
notwithstanding Professor Reichenbach’s ungenerous attempt to paralyse 
its study.” 
The Journal of Botany also contained a long biographical notice, and 
remarked: ‘‘ His knowledge was as unique as is the means by which he has 
succeeded in rendering his material temporarily, if not permanently, useless 
to those who should continue his work. . . . He was universally 
consulted on all matters relating to his vote Order ; and it is to his 
correspondence that his herbarium owes its value, containing, as it does, 
almost every specimen that he had ever had sent him, with sketches 
showing the structure, and copious notes; the whole being arranged with 
scrupulous care and neatness. . . Tous in this country he has for more 
than twenty years been a familiar figure—coming over for a stay often of 
many weeks, and settling down at Kew, where at one time he thought of 
permanently residing, so as to be in close proximity to the herbarium, 
which contains Lindley’s type-collection of Orchids. . . The news of 
