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how much I respect and admire the working of that noble 

 Society, and I feel myself greatly honoured by being elected 

 one of its members. Hessian fly (fig. 15) is indeed becoming 

 a scourge and the work is enormous it is a different story 

 now to when I was so roundly sneered at last year for think- 

 ing it had come. If we had our grand Entomological 

 Society of Ontario here things might have been very 

 different. I trust you may be able to spare, if only 

 one hour to give us just time to confer a little on your 

 return. I would put aside any ordinary engagement for the 

 pleasure and also the benefit of an entomological conver- 

 sation. But now about my sister and myself. This place is 

 fast becoming very unsuitable for us you will know all that 

 is involved in the rapid increase of the outskirts of London 

 and we have a notice of most of our garden going to be 

 offered for sale next year for small building plots. There- 

 fore we are making arrangements to move about the end of 

 next month to St. Albans. We have many good friends and 

 fellow-workers there or near, and the place is very healthy, 

 and very accessible both for London and the country, and 

 I can, I trust, do my work much more fully there." 



Of Miss Ormerod Lady Hooker has written : " When 

 she was our neighbour during our residence at Kew, 

 she was a frequent visitor at our house and often came in 

 the morning before public hours to the Gardens, to pursue 

 her researches and look for the insects to be found on the 

 trees, shrubs and plants ; on these occasions she generally 

 lunched with us and we delighted in her bright and in- 

 tellectual conversation. She was extremely fond of animals 

 and birds, and could imitate the* calls of the animals and the 

 notes of many birds so perfectly that she could collect 

 the creatures around her ; it was curious to see the squirrels 

 peep out from the trees when she called to them and 

 venture to her feet for the nuts she scattered for them. Her 

 observation was always on the alert and she saw many minute 

 things in nature that others would have passed by. She 

 was a fine artist and so was her sister, Miss G. Ormerod. 

 At one time my husband was needing some drawings made 

 for the Botanical Magazine and she offered her services and 

 drew three or four very beautifully." 



Lady Hooker made a practice of inviting Miss 

 Ormerod and her sister to come over and help to enter- 

 tain distinguished visitors at great functions and on the 

 occasion of visits of official scientific parties. On one 



