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1901, and her partly completed autobiography was extended and 

 published under the editorship of Prof. Robert Wallace. It is a very 

 interesting volume, and includes extracts from her correspondence 

 with many scientific men.^ 



In 1894 the office of Honorary Consulting Entomologist of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, that she had held for so many years, was 

 changed to Consulting Entomologist, or rather Zoologist, and the 

 position was made a salaried one. Mr. Cecil Warburton received the 

 appointment. 



It should be stated here that in 1877 a strong effort had been made 

 to secure the appointment of a Government entomologist. A confer- 

 ence was held at the Society of Arts which was largely attended and 

 was presided over by the Duke of Buccleuch. The most important 

 paper was read by Andrew Murray, resolutions endorsing the propo- 

 sition were passed, and the Government was urged to take up the 

 subject at once. However, no action on the part of the Government 

 followed. 



Mr. Warburton became connected with Cambridge University, and 

 for many years was employed by the Board of Agriculture at an 

 annual salary of 200 pounds. He advised in matters relating to ento- 

 mology, and published a certain number of good reports. 



Later, economic work was taken up at the University of Birming- 

 ham by Walter E. Collinge and at the Southeastern Agricultural 

 College at Wye by F. V. Theobald. Mr. Collinge wrote some impor- 

 tant papers ; and Professor Theobald before the end of the last cen- 

 tury had begun the publication, in the journal of his College, of a 

 series of important articles on agricultural entomology. These ap- 

 peared at intervals of approximately six months. Pie also prepared 

 an exhibit of the injurious insects of England for the British Museum 

 of Natural History, but he was not permitted to expand it as he 

 would have liked, which seems a great pity. 



* Miss Ormerod was a most charitable person. She once sent me a large 

 sum of money for the relief of the suffering at the time of the Johnstown flood 

 (May, 1889). What I wish especially to record here, howe\ier, is the fact that 

 in April, 1900, the University of Edinburgh gave her the honorary LL. D. I 

 think this was the first time that this degree was conferred by Edinburgh upon 

 a woman. At the cererhony (as she wrote me on April 30, 1900) she sat next 

 to Mr. Choate, then Ambassador from the United States to England. Miss 

 Ormerod wrote, " As I took my seat by him after receiving the degree, he gently 

 whispered, ' I congratulate you ; you did it splendidly,' and I thought it very 

 interesting that my first congratulation should be so kindly given me by the 

 Ambassador of the greatly advanced country to which I am so indebted for 

 help in my work." 



