320 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Mr. Ord attended the lectures at the Technical College on 

 Botanj, Chemistry, and Geology, and studied French and Spanish 

 at the Glasgow Athenieum. He gained many valuable prizes and 

 certificates at both Institutions, and at the Science and Art 

 Examinations the merit of the earlier successes was confirmed by 

 the gaining of the Department's first class certificates. He attended 

 Professor Young's Lectures on Zoology at the University for one 

 session, and was placed fifth on the examination list. 



His first connection with scientific societies was with the Clydes- 

 dale Naturalists' Society, of which he was secretary for some time, 

 discharsjins: the duties of that office in a manner rare in one so 

 young. After the dissolution of the " Clydesdale," he joined the 

 Andersonian Naturalists' Society, where he was the popular Con- 

 vener of the Entomological Section, an office which he held with 

 much acceptance for several years. He became a member of this 

 Society in 1896, and was a frequent contributor to its proceedings. 

 An extremely keen observer and independent thinker, Mr. Ord 

 was little inclined to take for granted authorities or text-books 

 without first testing their teachings and examples by practical 

 application in the field, and when an account of such inquiries 

 was communicated in the form of a Paper, its freshness and the 

 great vigour of his stjde commanded attention, and made criticism 

 difficult. Members will still agreeably recall his last Paper before 

 the Society, " The Lepidoptera in relation to Flowers," in which 

 Sir John Lubbock's sins — principally of omission — brought him 

 under the lash of the subject of this memoir. Mr. Ord was also 

 a member of the Council and of the Research Committee of the 

 Society. 



In addition to the work ungrudgingly undertaken for the 

 Natural History Societies he was connected with, Mr. Ord was 

 an occasional contributor to the Annals of Scottish Katural 

 History. He was a member of the Museums Association ; and 

 at the annual meeting of that body, held in Glasgow a couple of 

 years ago, he read a paper on " Chemistry in Museums," in which 

 he set forth, with the assurance of one who knew museum work 

 well, a scheme for adequately representing in public museums 

 some of the truths and beauties of a science whose study had 

 afibrded himself infinite delight. The essay was much appreci- 

 ated by the members of the Association, 



