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Inorganic Course) at the Technical College, and fifth place 

 at the Zoology class in the University. He also held first 

 class advanced stage certificates from the Science and Art 

 Department in Botany, Geology, and Chemistry. 



As a servant of the Corporation of Glasgow, he began 

 his duties in November, 1886. He was chiefly employed in 

 the ordinary routine work of Kelvingrove Museum, where he 

 was associated, as an assistant, with Mr. J. M'Naught 

 Campbell, F.Z.S., who tells me that his heart was chiefly in 

 the Zoological work which fell to him. He was appointed 

 Curator of the People's Palace, in Glasgow Green, which 

 was formally opened by Lord Rosebery in January, 1898. 

 This institution is simply a Museum, Art Gallery, and 

 Winter Garden. Mr. James Paton, F.L.S., his chief in this 

 Department, formed the highest opinion of Ord's character 

 and abilities. According to Mr. Paton, his energy was such 

 as to cause some solicitude as to his work. He had a 

 remarkable faculty for rapidly acquiring an intelligent and 

 comprehensive view of a new department of work, which 

 made him invaluable as an assistant. He was entirely 

 responsible for the arrangement of the " Glen " collection, 

 acquired from the Trustees of the late D. Corse Glen, F.G.S., 

 which consisted of 12,350 objects, chiefly geological. His 

 loss, Mr. Paton declares, is one not only to the Corporation, 

 but to the community also. 



As a naturalist, he was widely and favourably known in 

 Glasgow. He was the last Secretary of the Clydesdale 

 Naturalists' Society. He joined the Andersonian Naturalists' 

 Society in 1890, and, throughout the period of his connec- 

 tion with it, was one of its most active members. He acted 

 as Convener of the Entomological Section of this Society 

 continuously from 1893 till his death. He joined the 

 Natural History Society of Glasgow in 1896, and was 

 elected a Member of Council in the following year. 



He began his natural history studies in the Glasgow 

 district as a botanist and lepidopterist, and the relations 

 of plants and insects were from first to last matters of 

 great interest and careful investigation to him. Geology 

 claimed his attention in the field for a time, but for several 

 years he had been occupied chiefly with the Tipulidae, and 



