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keen students of their life histories. Amongst these were E. Birchalh 

 N. Greening, Nicholas and Benjamin Cooke, C. S. Gregson, J. Chai^pell, 

 J. B. Hodgkinson, E. S. Eddleston, A. Owen and J. Sidehotham. 

 Eapid as the progi-ess of Entomology has been during the past half 

 century, in no direction has this been so great as in that which is called 

 Economic Entomology, and this is owing to a very great extent to the 

 indefatigable work done by Miss Ormerod, who began her active work 

 in 1877, when she issued a pamphlet of eight pages entitled Notes and 

 Observations on Injurious Insects, and this has been followed un- 

 remittingly since by yearly reports up to the present time. I believe 

 for several years she conducted this work entirely on her own 

 respousiliility and at her own expense. In 1882 she was appointed 

 Consulting Entomologist to the Eoyal Agricultural Society, but at her 

 request the jwst was made honorary. Before Miss Ormerod's active 

 work began, she studied injurious insects, galls, &c., and several papers 

 of hers are scattered through the pages of The Entomologist. Miss 

 Ormerod's love for insects was first inculcated when she was very 

 young. I have been told that when she was young she was an invalid, 

 and her nurse used to take her into the fields on her father's farm in 

 Gloucestershire, and set her in a chair, Avhere she used to sit and watch 

 the insects by the half-day together. In 1881 she published her 

 Manual of Injurious Insects, and a second edition in 1890, much enlarged. 

 In the Winter 1883-4 she gave a course of ten lectures on AgTicultural 

 Entomology at South Kensington, and these were published under the 

 title of A Guide to Methods of Insect Life, and this little book is the 

 best on the sul)ject that has ever been written. The book has recently 

 been taken up by some County Coimcils and sold out, and a second and 

 larger edition has been prepared, entitled A Text Booh of Agricnltural 

 Entomology (1892). Miss Ormerod's work has extended to the Colonies, 

 and in 1889 she published a volume of Notes and Descriptions of a few 

 Injurious Farm and Fruit Insects of South Africa. She was instrumental 

 in bringing forward the fact that the Hessian Fly, Cecidomyia destructor, 

 had established itself as a British insect, and was applied to for 

 information by the Australian Government, when the insect made its 

 ai:)ix'arance there. She has served (probably still serves) as a Meml)er 

 of the Lords of Council on Education, and was the means of having 

 the collection of Economic Entomology removed from Betlmal Green 

 and re-modelled at South Kensington, Professor Westwood and Mr. 

 Mosley being deputed to do the Avork. Miss Ormerod must have spent a 

 very large sum of money in disseminating information on her subject. 

 It is much to be regretted that latterly Miss Ormerod's health has given 

 way, owing to the immense amount of care and anxiety necessitated by 

 the task she has undertaken, so much so, indeed, that she has retired 

 from the office of Consulting Entomologist to our Eoyal AgTicultural 

 Society, where it Avas a part of her duties to submit yearlj^ an account 

 of the insect attacks and the amount of enquiry on the subject sent to 

 her officially. That she is still energetic in the cause was evinced by 

 the circular she pul;)lished in September last, and which, I believe, at 

 first appeared in the Times newspaper, in which she gives the numerous 

 reports made to her of insect attacks and depredations during the 

 year. I would refer those interested in this su1)ject to this circular. I 

 am glad to say Miss Ormerod, though not officially, offers to continue 

 the investigations ni which she has been so eminently useful. Whilst 



