PREFACE. vii 
I have to acknowledge with grateful thanks much kind 
co-operation, not only from British and Colonial colleagues, but 
also from Continental and American entomological friends, from 
which I greatly benefit, and return my hearty thanks to all, 
not only for this, but for the constant and liberal donations of 
valuable publications on Agriculture and Agricultural Entomo- 
logy, which I greatly regret not being able to reciprocate as 
their value demands. 
I also desire to express my very sincere thanks to the editors 
of our agricultural and many of our general newspapers for the 
oreat assistance given to my work, and encouragement to myself 
by their notice ; their approbation is a very important matter in 
my work, and I appreciate it gratefully. 
Another point on which my sincere thanks are due is the 
kind and consoling sympathy which I have received in the 
severe bereavement I suffered in the past year in the decease of 
my much-valued sister, Georgiana E. Ormerod, F.E.S. Through 
the whole course of these Reports, as well as in forming the 
original plan of reciprocation of agricultural communication, 
which I have now for twenty years been favoured with, my sister 
helped me greatly, and from the exceeding interest she took in 
any point likely to lessen loss from insect injury, I trust my 
contributors will not think that I am intruding my own great 
loss too much upon them in paying my tribute of respect to her 
memory in the following notice of her life in the pages of the 
publication in which she took such a helpful interest. As her 
sister, I am not myself fitted for the task, but it is written by an 
entomologist of high standing, and a valued friend who knew 
her well. The asterisks merely indicate a passage of kind re- 
ference to myself, inappropriate for my own insertion :— 
“It is with deep regret that we record the death of Miss 
Georgiana Elizabeth Ormerod, of Torrington House, St. Ses 
England, the elder sister of Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod. ‘ 
* * * * * *, After several months of patiently-borne ee 
she passed away on the 19th of August last, full of piety and 
good works, and justly esteemed and loved by all who knew her. 
She and her sister were each other’s constant companion and 
fellow-worker, and each sought the other’s counsel and aid in 
