Honour for Belgian Orchidists. — 

 M. Emile Duchesne, of Watermael, Belgium, 

 has been promoted to the rank of Officier 

 du Merita Agricole de France ; and M. 

 Georges Lanthoine, his partner, has been 

 appointed Chevalier of the same order. 

 M. Duchesne has explored the Congo State 

 for new Orchids, and M. Lanthoine has 

 travelled in Colombia with the same object. 

 Many excellent exhibits have been staged 

 by them at the principal shows. 



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Professor Bateson. — Professor William 

 Bateson, M.A., F.R.S., who has been chosen 

 as President of the British Association for the 

 Congress to be held next year in Australia, is 

 director of the recently established John 

 Innes Horticultural Institution at Merton 

 Park, Wimbledon, Surrey. Born in i86l, and 

 subsequently educated at Rugby School, 

 where he held the Balfour Studentship from 

 1887 to 1890, he received the Darwin Medal 

 of the Royal Society in 1904, and was 

 Professor of Biology at Cambridge in 1908-9. 

 The last Genetic Conference of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, July, 1906, was held 

 under his presidency. 



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Change of Address. — Miss M. Walters 

 Anson has recently removed to " The Studio," 

 91, Lewin Road, .Streatham, where all 

 communications should be addressed in 

 future. 



A New Committee.— Owing to the fact 

 that the work of the Royal Horticukural 

 Society's Orchid Committee mainly consists 

 of awarding Medals and Certificates, many 

 questions of a technical nature, which from 

 time to time arise in connection with its work, 

 remain unsettled.. In order to overcome this 

 difficulty Messrs. J. Gurney Fowler, de Barri 

 Crawshay, R. A. Rolfe, and Gurney Wilson 

 have been nominated as members of a new 

 committee, which will meet, as necessity 

 arises, to consider the points at issue. 



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Pollen Thieves.— Messrs. McBean, of 

 Cooksbridge, have recently lost a considerable 

 amount of pollen, and first investigation gave 

 no satisfactory clue to the means by which it 

 had disappeared. Several hundred flowers 

 were attacked during the course of a few 

 days, and although a careful watch was kept, 

 and all the doors securely fastened, yet the 

 pollen continued to disappear. One remedy 

 only remained, and that to guard the actual 

 plants by close vigilance. This proved 

 successful. It was not long before numerous 

 mice appeared on the scene, and quickly 

 climbed to the tops of the plants in order to 

 secure the pollen. Not content with securing 

 all they could obtain from the open flowers 

 they next visited the largest buds, and by 

 breaking through the segments were able to 

 extract the pollen. Since the capture and 

 due punishment of the mice no further loss of 

 pollen has been experienced. 



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