346 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NoVvEMBER, 1910. 
OBITUARY. 
WittiaM BoxaLi.—A veteran Orchidist has passed away in the person of 
Mr. William Boxall, the well-known Orchid collector, who died on Sunday, 
August 28th, at his residence, 186, Brooke Road, Clapton, in his 66th year. 
His health had been failing for some time, through diabetes, and three 
years ago he had a stroke of paralysis from which he never completely 
recovered, though he was able to get about a good deal, and was 4 
frequent attendant at the meetings of the R.H.S. 
For many years he was in the service of Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., 
Clapton, first as Orchid foreman, and afterwards as collector. His first 
journey to Burma was made over 35 years ago, when he sent home many 
handsome Dendrobiums, and numerous other Orchids, several of which 
were new both to science and horticulture, though the richness of the 
area in question had already been indicated by the discoveries of the Rev- 
C. Parish and Col. Benson. One of his most famous discoveries was 
Dendrobium Wardianum var. Lowianum, which flowered with Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co. in 1875, and has ever since been one of the most 
popular of garden Orchids, being imported in enormous quantities. 
Another striking novelty was Cymbidium Lowianum, which was sent 
home in 1877, and flowered with Messrs. Low two years _later- 
Dendrobium Boxallii was one of his earliest discoveries, and was named 
by Reichenbach in his honour in 1874, while Cypripedium Boxallii followed 
three years later. Two other plants named after him were Vanda 
ceerulescens Boxallii, in 1877, and V. lamellata Boxallii, in 1880. 
The latter is a native of the Philippines, which he had visited a year 
or more earlier, and from which a number of interesting things had been 
sent. Among these were great quantities of the beautiful Phalzenopsis 
Schilleriana and P. Aphrodite, which were sent home in specially prepared 
cases, glazed with ground oyster shells. He also visited Java and Borneo, 
Brazil, and Central and South America, though we do not remember the 
exact periods. He made several journeys to Burma and other parts of 
India, and must have enriched our collections with thousands, if not tens 
of thousands, of living plants, and at a time when the difficulties of 
transit were much greater than at the present. With dried specimens he 
did very little, though he has more than once pleased us with a few odd 
flowers from between the leaves of a well-thumbed pocket-book. 
His knowledge of Orchids and their habitats was very great, as we 
found in several interesting chats with him, but we do not remember that 
he published anything. When he visited the Philippines, however, he 
gave a list of Philippine Orchids to Sefior Sebastian Vidal, Director of the 
Botanic Garden at Manila, and these were incorporated in the Novissima 
