OBITUARY NOTICES [CHAP. xxvi. 



sinking for the last six weeks from malignant disease of 

 the liver. Her loss is not to this country alone, but to the 

 whole civilised world, though the farmers of the United 

 Kingdom will feel in a special degree that a trusted friend 

 has been taken from them. Many people will feel that such 

 a magnificent record of unselfish work as she has left 

 behind ought to have received some official recognition of 

 a national character. Nevertheless, almost the last honour 

 bestowed upon her, that of the honorary degree of Doctor 

 of Laws in the University of Edinburgh, was peculiarly 

 grateful to her," &c., &c. 



Having regard to the special interest which Miss Ormerod 

 took in the progress of Economic Entomology in Canada 

 and the United States, and the high appreciation in which 

 she was held by the enlightened exponents of the subject on 

 the other side of the Atlantic, we conclude with an extract 

 from the September number of the " Canadian Entomologist" 

 for 1901 : 



" Entomology in England has suffered a great loss 

 through the death of this talented and estimable lady, 

 who died at her residence, Torrington House, St. Albans, 

 on Friday, July i9th. Practical entomologists throughout 

 the world are moved with profound regret that a career so 

 remarkable and so useful should be brought to a close, but 

 one could hardly hope that the aged lady would long be 

 able to sustain the burden of increasing infirmities and the 

 trials of a painful and protracted illness. Miss Ormerod 

 was one of the most remarkable women of the latter half of 

 the nineteenth century, and did more than any one else 

 in the British Isles to further the interests of farmers, fruit- 

 growers, and gardeners, by making known to them methods 

 for controlling and subduing their multiform insect pests. 

 Her labours were unwearied and unselfish ; she received no 

 remuneration for her services, but cheerfully expended her 

 private means in carrying out her investigations and pub- 

 lishing their results. We know not now by whom in 

 England this work can be continued ; it is not likely 

 that any one can follow in the unique path laid out by 

 Miss Ormerod ; we may therefore cherish the hope that 

 the Government of the day will hold out a helping hand 

 and establish an entomological bureau for the lasting 

 benefit of the great agricultural interests of the country."] 



