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CHAPTER XI 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THE EDITOR 



THE removal of Miss Ormerod and her sister, Georgiana, 

 from Torquay to Spring Grove, Isleworth, was primarily 

 because Torquay did not suit their health and secondarily 

 because at Isleworth they were near Kew Gardens, where 

 they were on intimate terms with Sir Joseph and Lady 

 Hooker. They left again for Torrington House, St. Albans, 

 in September, 1887, partly because Sir Joseph resigned the 

 Directorship of Kew Gardens in 1885 and partly because of 

 the increase of population, and the defective and unwhole- 

 some drainage of the house. In a letter (p. 74) to Dr. 

 Bethune, one of her esteemed Canadian correspondents, 

 she refers to her impending change of residence. 



DUXSTER LODGE, SPRING GROVE, ISLEWORTH. 



August 7, 1887. 



" MY DEAR MR. BETHUNE, I have very often lately been 

 hoping to hear of your safe arrival, and I am very glad to 

 hear of it ; but I am so sorry that I cannot have the great 

 pleasure of seeing you to-morrow, for I have to be at St. 

 Albans to meet a number of people on business from noon 

 till 4 p.m. This is a great disappointment to me, for I (we) 

 had much looked forward to a chat with you. I am long- 

 ing to hear of my kind friends in Canada and especially of 

 Mr. Fletcher and Professor Saunders, and I want much to 

 ask you how to transmit so much of a set of my entomolo- 

 gical publications as I can get together for acceptance by 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario. x I cannot tell you 



1 The Entomological Society of Ontario was originated by Dr. 

 Saunders and Dr. Bethune nearly forty years ago. Its headquarters 

 are in London, Ontario, and it has branches in Toronto, Montreal and 

 Quebec. Its publications are the monthly Canadian Entomologist, now 

 in its thirty-fifth volume, and thirty-three annual reports to the Legisla- 

 ture of Ontario on Noxious and Beneficial Insects. Miss Ormerod was 

 an Honorary Member. 



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