14/? \V. I.. Wiluavs, Dtstns pafachila Spiraet \>r ll$b*id ^ v oJ 7 £ * 



indented, as i* commonly the. case in /?. ttiaculatri. One flower on the '-ten 

 carried hs lateral sepals parallel, as in £*, ^cdlnwwtotft; die ot«Ct carried 

 them crossed, a? in /3, mar.uhta, 



Sriecimen l_" had a lip which W4& m nearly every respect Nile the lip nl 

 D maculnta enlarged to about twice the normal si*c The whole orchid, 

 including the backs of the lateral pfc£$Js, was faintly UHnhod With brovVn upon 

 An otherwise lemon bacWg^omui The plate at the base of the VabeUum, how- 

 ever, showed x somewhat indistinct central line, ai in D p#dinu:n}at<t, while 

 the mam sec-bon of the middle lobe tended to spread in the horiiontat plan*: 

 rathe* than to be saddle-shaped as in f) innc(tf,t1tt The lateral sejwk were 

 emesed 



All three specimens tarried lateral pelah (Wot lay in approximately \\*r 

 tame plane. as rhe dorsal sepal (as in D. pcdunculata), hut the petals were 

 more nearly orbicular (a* frl !>, moculotn) t 



If the theory that the parent* of D. pcttachiUt are in fact 0. tnocufotp- and 

 P. pjihitu'titoin has as much iViondation j*$ 1 thinV, then in specimens A, B, 

 atid C t we clearly had to do with three hybrids varying only hi thevr proximity 

 10 one pnreut or the other- Tf any observer bftfr noted 0; patackila growing 

 entirely divorced from IK paiwnuhOft and P. "WfWoA* or tins found the 

 orehid in number?, then the. theory would bis weakened consideiably. 



OBITUARY: GEORGE BAXTER PRITCHARD 



Dr. G. B. J'ritdiaxd, well-known Melbourne geologist and former niember 

 o'\ the Fteld Na-lwalnt* Club, died at h»* home m H&LWthom on AilRU»l 2, 

 I9S6, and uas interred ill rhr Sprntgvale Cemetery four days later 



He was hern on October 17, IS69 a* Crravesend, Kent, England, hut whim 

 he was three his father died and his mother. «kv Annie Baxter, an Australian. 

 returned with het small son to her family in Victoria. He spent his early 

 life in Melbourne v'berc Ik was educated at Scotch College. From there he 

 went on to the Melbourne. University, but before lie had completed his 

 engineering course he decided that hi*, chief interest ln> 6rj geologv and 

 kindred science 1 ;. He went to Adelaide, for a year, where he did .some work 

 in scknee subjects. When he retvtrned to Melbourne, he v/us given an oppoint- 

 ment at the Working \fe<t v s College, now tltc Meltourne Technical School in 

 chc School of Mince Department where he remained invtil his retirement in 

 1934 is head of the Department. While attached to thi& College he lectured 

 at the Metbmtrnt Lin versily in Dental Metallurgy and he, together with Dr. 

 T. S. Hall, was icfirtg Professor of Geology at the Melbourne University 

 lor three years. While lecturing at the C'lluge hi- 1dO)f nut degrees from the 

 Melbourne Univcrsit> ; B.Sc. in l^/el and D.'Sc in 2911. 



Hi* association with the Reid "Naturalists Club commenced in 1902 and 

 foi many years he was i won active member. On several octagons he con- 

 tributed papers on geology and comJiology lo the Club's meetings and in 

 1910 he published a most useful book. The Cc^io^y of M clhounu, a work 

 winch, because of its value to field geologists, has become very scarce. 



Aner his retirement L>r Priuhard continued to live an active lite Me 

 spent a year or two teaching parr-iimc at Trinity Grammar School Al Fpnr 

 iii'.t at the beginning of the 193° 45 war he returned to hU old school. Scotch 

 College, to assist teaching soence subjects, as a large immber of the young 

 teachers had I Hi to joio the aTmcH Torres He remained there lor ei^ht years 

 ^m\ when he leSt Vie retired from teaching <.nmptetely. Through out his hffllg 

 life he had worlocd oil geological survey "-. and he continued 1o do llu.se when 

 rccmired ( usually tor oil search purposes) until his fatal illness. At the age 

 tit 90 he commenced to compile data on the life -of his uncle. Robert Hoddle. 

 Melbourne's hr$t surveyor. Hiss Irene Ptift&titrd hopes to conu^tcie this- wock- 



Dr. Prilcharri was a life memhrr of the Old Scotch Collegians Association 

 and a foundation member of the Council. He was ippointed vice-president of 



