\n expedition to the Amazon to study orchids'will shortly set out from England under the leadership p£ Mr Cecil S Garnett, F.G.S., of Derby. Although ie'oder. lie will be the only Englishman ol the party, which has" been commissioned by the National Geographic Society of Xnierica. The authorities at Kew Gardens have asked for specimens and the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society is rendering assistance The party is to work over 1000 miles up the Amazon, and much of the area to be traversed-is through forests hitherto untrodden by white ,men. Nine women of Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland, have by a decision in the Supreme Court m the United •it.,tps been declared heiresses to onethird of the £IOO,OOO fortune left by Ah- Jefferson Foylo. of Rathfriland, Mho died at Farmer City, Illinois,,
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19258, 13 March 1928, Page 6
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