12 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1912. 
President of the Royal Society, an office which he held for five years. His. 
numerous books and papers must be passed over, but we must not omit the 
monumental Flora of British India, of which so many Orders were worked 
up by himself, and among them the Orchidacee, including some 116 genera 
and nearly 1300 species. His other contributions to Orchidology were 
great, for he worked up the Orchids of Ceylon and of New Zealand, while 
the number of Orchids figured in the Botanical Magazine during his long 
editorship, from 1865 to 1904, must have been very great. As long ago as 
1854 he published an important paper on the structure and fertilisation of 
Listera, and there are several references to his work in Darwin’s Fertilisation 
.of Orchids. His scientific work extended over an ordinary lifetime, and, 
incredible as it may appear, he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society for 
over 69 years. His powers of observation and generalisation were 
remarkable, and his industry almost amounted to a passion, and never 
deserted him to the last. The world of science has lost an acknowledged 
master, whose influence was immense, and whose kindliness of disposition 
endeared him to all who came in contact with him. Sir Joseph Hooker 
was the recipient of many academic honours, and of medals from the Royal, 
Linnean, and Geographical Societies, and from the Society of Arts. He was 
made C.B. in 1869, K.C.S.I. in 1877, G.C.S.I. in 1897, and on his ninetieth 
birthday he received the Order of Merit. He was interred at Kew Parish 
Church on Friday, December 15th, when a large number of his old 
colleagues and representatives of the learned societies were present. For 
the loan of the block we are indebted to the courtesy of the proprietors of 
the Gardeners’ Magazine. 
BLOTCHED ODONTOGLOssUMs.—-A flower of an interesting Odonto- 
-glossum has been sent from the collection of John S. Moss, Esq., 
Wintershill, Bishops Waltham, which the sender well remarks could only’ 
have been called a blotched crispum had it appeared among imported 
plants. It is from the batch of seedlings mentioned at p. 234 of our last 
-yolume as obtained from O. crispum Xx bellatulum, and thus is three- 
fourths derived from the former, O. bellatulum having been derived from O. 
crispum X tripudians. It serves as a further confirmation of the fact that 
what have long been called blotched crispums are compound hybrids 
between O. crispum and the species with which it grows, and from further 
intercrossings, doubtless continued through countless generations. It 
-cannot be said, however, that the form sent is absolutely identical with 
any wiid form, for O. tripudians is not known to grow with O. crispum, 
and a careful comparison reveals slight differences from anything we 
remember to have seen among imported plants. We should like to see 
-the species intercrossed which grow together in a wild state. R.A.R. 
