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The Ottawa Naturalist. 



[August 



THE LATE DR. ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



Press cablegrams of the 19th July announced the sad tidings 

 of the death of Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, ot Torrington House, 

 St. Albans, England. This accomplished and estimable lady was 

 a recognized authority on economic entomology, and had during a 

 long series of years prepared and published numerous Reports 

 and Manuals upon injurious insects, and of great value to the 

 agricultural interests of Great Britain, As a recognition of pro- 

 longed and valuable work, she was created an LL.D. of Cam- 

 bridge, and she was a fellow or honorary member of many scien- 

 tific bodies. As one the few Corresponding Members of the 

 Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club she evinced much interest in its 

 progress and in the investigations of its members — W. H. H. 





