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OBITUARY : ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, LL.D. 



We regret to have to chronicle the death of this gifted lady, 

 who has spent the greater part of her life on the study and 

 practical application of entomology. 



Her father was George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., author of 

 the ' History of Cheshire,' who came of an old Lancashire family, 

 the Ormerods of Ormerod. She was a student of natural history 

 from quite early age, and as her father advanced in years she 

 took an active part in the management of his farm and property, 

 Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire, beautifully situated, opposite to 

 Chepstow. This gave her practical knowledge of agriculture ; and 

 here was the seed plot from which so much good fruit was to ripen. 



Dr. Eobert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture in the University 

 of Edinburgh, writes to us : — " The name of Miss Eleanor A. 

 Ormerod is widely known among all classes of the community, 

 and the excellent quality of her work is recognised and appreciated 

 by those who are specially interested in the scientific aspect of 

 it. But the magnitude and true value of her gratuitous labours 

 from the practical point of view of the farmer are probably not 

 sufdciently understood by the general public. Twenty-four 

 voluminous Annual Pieports have appeared ; and the following 

 standard works have been issued from time to time : — ' A Manual 

 of Lijurious Insects, with Methods of Prevention and Piemedy ' 

 (two editions); * Handbook on Insects Injurious to Orchard and 

 Bush Fruits ' ; ' Observations on Injurious Insects of South 

 Africa ' ; a ' Guide to Methods of Insect Life ' ; and a ' Text-Book 

 of Agricultural Entomology,' &c. Free gift copies of the Annual 

 Report were sent to all correspondents who supplied any of the 

 information adopted. Besides what may be termed substantial 

 publications, many four-page leaflets on the common farm pests 

 were prepared with, in each case, an illustration of the creature 

 described, and gratuitously circulated to meet a rapidly growing 

 demand for guidance among farmers and stockowners. Among 

 these were issued accounts of the widely destructive wireworm 

 and equally destructive grub of the crane fly, or daddy longlegs; 

 the mangel-leaf maggot ; the mustard beetle ; the minute stem 

 eelworm (invisible to the naked eye), which produces 'Tulip-root' 

 in grain crops, and is largely responsible for the condition known 

 as ' clover sickness ' ; the troublesome forest fly, which her recent 

 investigations showed to be present in two other districts besides 

 that of the New Forest in Hampshire ; and the * Warble Fly, its 

 history and easily practicable methods of prevention and remedy.' 

 Of the last-named leaflet, 155,000 copies were circulated at her 

 own expense. From letters in my possession, as the editor of 

 Miss Ormerod' s Reminiscences, it is clearly shown that by her 

 numerous distinguished foreign correspondents she was uni- 

 versally acknowledged to be the greatest authority on economic 



