320 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Mr. Ord attended the lectures at the Technical College on 
Botany, Chemistry, and Geology, and studied French and Spanish 
at the Glasgow Atheneum. He gained many valuable prizes and 
certificates at both Institutions, and at the Science and Art 
Examinations the merit of the earlier successes was confirmed by 
the gaining of the Department’s first class certificates. He attended 
Professor Young’s Lectures on Zoology at the University for one 
session, and was placed fifth on the examination list. 
His first connection with scientific societies was with the Clydes- 
dale Naturalists’ Society, of which he was secretary for some time, 
discharging the duties of that office in a manner rare in one so 
young. After the dissolution of the “Clydesdale,” he joined the 
Andersonian Naturalists’ Society, where he was the popular Con- 
vener of the Entomological Section, an office which he held with 
much acceptance for several years. He became a member of this 
Society in 1896, and was a frequent contributor to its proceedings. 
An extremely keen observer and independent thinker, Mr. Ord 
was little inclined to take for granted authorities or text-books 
without first testing their teachings and examples by practical 
application in the field, and when an account of such inquiries 
was communicated in the form of a Paper, its freshness and the 
great vigour of his style commanded attention, and made criticism 
difficult. Members will still agreeably recall his last Paper before 
the Society, ‘The Lepidoptera in relation to Flowers,” in which 
Sir John Lubbock’s sins—principally of omission—brought him 
under the lash of the subject of this memoir. Mr. Ord was also 
a member of the Council and of the Research Committee of the 
Society. 
In addition to the work ungrudgingly undertaken for the 
Natural History Societies he was connected with, Mr. Ord was 
an occasional contributor to the Annals of Scottish Natural 
History. He was a member of the Museums Association ; and 
at the annual meeting of that body, held in Glasgow a couple of 
years ago, he read a paper on “ Chemistry in Museums,” in which 
he set forth, with the assurance of one who knew museum work 
well, a scheme for adequately representing in public museums 
some of the truths and beauties of a science whose study had 
afforded himself infinite delight. The essay was much appreci- 
ated by the members of the Association, 

