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Vol. XXXIII. LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1901. No. 9 



MISS ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



Entomology in England has suffered a great loss through the 

 death of this talented and estimable lady, who died at her residence, 

 Torrington House, St. Albans, on Friday, July 19th. Practical entomol- 

 ogists throughout the world are moved with profound regret that a career 

 so remarkable and so useful should be brought to a close, but one could 

 hardly hope that the aged lady would long be able to sustain the burden 

 of increasing infirmities and the trials of a painful and protracted illness. 



Miss Ormerod was born at Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire, on May 

 1 ith,i828, and had thus entered upon her 74th year. She was the youngest 

 of a family of ten, seven of them sons, all of whom she survived. Her 

 father, Mr. George Ormerod, LL. D., F. R. S., F. S. A., etc., was a 

 distinguished literary man and the author of a notable " History of 

 Cheshire"; her mother was a daughter of Dr. John Latham, F. R. S., at 

 one time President of the College of Physicians. On both sides, there- 

 fore, she inherited literary and scientific tastes, and at an early age 

 displayed a love for natural history and outdoor pursuits. As her father 

 became advanced in years, it devolved upon her to take a large share in 

 the management of his estates, which included a home-farm, and in this 

 way, no doubt, she was led to give the practical turn to her entomological 

 investigations which caused them to be of so much public value after- 

 wards. She also when quite young took an interest, that she continued 

 to maintain throughout her life, in meteorological observations, and in 

 course of time published " The Cobham Journals " of meteorological and 

 phenological records made by Miss Molesvvorth at Cobham in Surrey. 

 She was the first lady to be admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society, as she was also the first lady to receive (last year) the 

 honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Edinburgh. 

 Among other honours bestowed upon her may be mentioned the Silver 

 Medals of the Societe' Nationale d' Acclimitation of France and the Royal 



