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ledge and common sense, when I meet with them (they are 

 not so common as people imagine) you will find me always 

 ready to do my best to aid in carrying out your views. 

 You really know more about the business than all the rest 

 of us put together. Yours very truly, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



While Miss Ormerod was associated with the Bethnal 

 Green Museum she was asked to look at the proofs of a 

 series of insect diagrams illustrating "Gardeners' Friends 

 and Foes " being prepared for publication by the Science 

 and Art Department. She found that an official of the 

 Museum had been guilty of wholesale plagiarism, both 

 in the coloured figures and the descriptive letterpress, and 

 moreover that a number of figures of a popular kind had 

 been introduced which were not drawn with scientific ac- 

 curacy, that she felt conscientiously impelled to report the 

 irregularities and deficiencies to the authorities. The 

 results were that the diagrams were withdrawn (only a few 

 sets having been presented for private use to certain 

 fortunate individuals) ; and the removal of the official from 

 the position of trust became a wholesome lesson to those 

 who lightly make use without acknowledgment of the 

 work of others. 



At a later date she arranged the descriptive matter of a 

 series of beautiful insect diagrams, the originals of which 

 were drawn and coloured by her sister, Georgiana, for the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, and referred to in the appended 

 facsimile page of a letter addressed to the present writer, 

 and again at p. 210 of her correspondence. 



To Miss Anne Hartwell, Miss Ormerod's private secre- 

 tary and confidential companion, I am indebted for many 

 of the following incidents in the home life. The two sisters, 

 though they were never robust, enjoyed comparatively good 

 health, when Miss Hartwell, in May, 1888, went to reside 

 with them, and were at all times very busy. Miss Ormerod 

 (Georgiana) usually sat in the dining-room working at her 

 diagrams and Miss Eleanor in the study. They generally 

 worked all the morning, and in the afternoon they would 



AN EXCELLENT SPECIMEN OF MlSS ORMEROD'S CLEAR AND CHARAC- 

 TERISTIC WRITING IN WHICH SHE CONDUCTED HER VOLUMINOUS CORRE- 

 SPONDENCE, PAGE 89 OPPOSITE. 



