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SYSTEMATIC botanists, and especially orchid-ologists, have sustained a grievous loss by the death on April 13, after rather more than three months' illness, of Mr. R. A. Rolfe, who, for upwards of forty years, was an assistant in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Mr. Rolfe was born at Ruddington, near Nottingham, on May 12, 1855. He joined the Kew Herbarium staff in 1880, as a result of a public competitive examination, having previously gained some experience among cultivated plants in the famous gardens at Welbeck Abbey, Notts, and at Kew. It was anticipated that he would retire from service next month, and a visit to Central America was projected, for which a grant in aid had actually been voted by the Government Grant Board of the Royal Society.
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Robert Allen Rolfe. Nature 107, 276–277 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107276b0
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