Vill PREFACE. 
carrying out any plan of work in which she was engaged. Miss 
G. E. Ormerod’s special studies were botany and conchology, 
and in the latter department she formed a large and valuable 
collection of shells, which she presented, a few years ago, to the 
Natural History Museum at Huddersfield. She was highly gifted 
as a linguist, and acquired an excellent knowledge of French, 
Italian, Spanish, and German, and was thus enabled to be of 
the greatest assistance to her sister in correspondence and the 
translation of foreign works of science. She is most widely 
known, however, by her remarkable talents as an artist, which 
were especially employed in the production of a splendid series 
of diagrams, in which are depicted a large number of the most 
important injurious insects in all their life-stages.”” [A portion 
of which are deposited in the Ormerod Collection of Entomology 
in the University of Edinburgh.—H. A. O.] 
‘*TIn addition to her scientific and artistic work, she devoted 
much of her time and means:to benevolent objects, and carried 
out for many years, at her own expense, a system of distributing 
books of an entertaining and instructive character amongst the 
working-classes. 
‘“We cannot but deeply deplore the loss of this eminent 
Christian lady, who died at an advanced age, full of good works, 
performed in a most unobtrusive manner; richly endowed with 
intellectual and artistic talents, which she largely used for the 
benefit of others; always happy and cheerful in her daily 
domestic life; kind, hospitable, and sympathetic; ready to help 
all who deserved her aid and to give wise counsels to those who 
sought them from her.”—(C. J. §. B.)* 
To myself no one can replace my sister’s help and our 
companionship of a lfetime; but I have much satisfaction in 
securing both kind and efficient assistance on many points from 
my resident lady secretary, Miss Hartwell, who has to some 
degree assisted me as my amanuensis for many years. 
Of the illustrations accompanying the observations I beg to 
acknowledge, with thanks, those at pp. 28, 25, 85, 125, and 143, 
* See obituary notice by the Rey. Chas. J. S. Bethune, Principal of the 
Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, in ‘The Canadian 
Entomologist’ for Nov., 1896. The Portrait of Miss Ormerod given in the 
Frontispiece is from a photo taken by Messrs. Elliott & Fry, of Baker 
Street, London, W. 
