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numerous species of Rhododendron disce in TA by the 
Abbé Delavay. The plant from which the figure was prepared 
vifi s from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, 
in 1894 
Coloured drawings of Burmese Orchids.—The widow of the late 
Rev. Charles Samuel Pollock Parish has presented Kew with two 
folio volumes of coloured drawings of orchids, executed by him. 
Long before orchid growing had become so popular as it is now, 
that is to say in 1852, Mr. Parish went to Moulmein, in Burma, 
where he deeem until 1878. He was y attracted by the 
correspondence with Kew, and a contributor to the Herbarium 
and Garden. When he came home in 1871 he presented a 
beautiful collection of water-colour drawings of orchids. These 
are accompanied by adm ible natya of the flowers. On his 
return to Burma he continued to send specimens and sketches or 
tracings of his original drawings. Now, in accordance with his 
he published deseriptions of a large number of new orchids in 
the Transactions of the Linnean Society (vol. xxx., 1873), illus- 
trated by a number of plates from his own pencil. Parish also 
cruel te d the part dealing with the eed in MT 
n's Burma (1883), upwards of 350 species being e 
rated, nearly all from the province of Tenasser t ee noir" (2 79 
species of Dendrobium. Among the many species tukeoditioed-h y 
im into cultivation are Sarcanthus Parishii, Hook. f. : 
Mag. t. 5217); Dendrobium seil Parish (t. 5520), and the 
ighly curious Bolbophyllum lemniscatum, Parish (t. 5961). In 
1870, Sir Joseph Hooker dedicated the ninety-sixth volume of the 
Botanical Magazine to him, as a tribute to the value of his many 
contributions to Kew, and to the plates of that publication. He 
died on October 18th, 1897, at the age of seventy-five years. 
Bretschneider's History of Botanical Discoveries in China.- The 
zoo Wing 3 interesting letter from an old and valued ducere 
of Kew, ee physician to the Russian Embassy in China 
gives some acc of the progress of his mont umental work on 
the history of Chines Botany, in which British botanists and 
collato lis e played so large a part. It also incidentally clears 
up the origin of Arundinaria nitida, the most beautiful of all 
tod y bamboos :— 
St. Petersburg, May 18, 1898. 
During the preparation of my great work * History of Botanic ce 
Discoveries in China,” upon which I have been en, for 
quarter of a century, and which will be published in about four 
months, I have experienced very much kindness from Kew. 
