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she immediately produced her cheque book and gave me a 

 cheque for the amount." She also extended personal 

 sympathy and practical help to many of her poor neighbours 

 by whom she was loved and esteemed. 



She never lost taste for the pastime of modelling in plaster 

 of Paris, and at leisure moments, when unable to go out of 

 doors, she would occupy spare time in this way. She 

 modelled some beautiful specimens of common fruits and 

 made the cast of her own hand. In the evening, when tired 

 of writing, she would read or crochet. Her great skill in 

 what is generally regarded as exclusively woman's work is 

 independently testified to by Miss Emma Swan, niece of 

 Professor Westwood, who is so well able to speak with 

 authority, in the following words : " What particularly 

 struck me as a young girl at the time I visited her was the 

 very beautiful needlework she found time to do, and 

 pleasure in doing. Whatever she did, she seemed to do 

 well ! " From the same source we learn that " she sang 

 and played the piano very well indeed/' She also composed 

 music with facility and might have developed musical 

 tastes, but for the overpowering love of science which was 

 the absorbing interest of her life. 1 



We have it on excellent authority that the very greatest 

 pleasure of all her public recognitions was experienced on 

 April 14, 1900, in the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, when the 

 LL.D. of the University was conferred upon her in com- 

 pany with a group of distinguished recipients of that 

 honour 2 before an assemblage of about 3,000 people. The 



1 In addition to the individual appreciation of her correspondents 

 and fellow-workers, Miss Ormerod's position in the world of science 

 was recognised by scientific and educational bodies in a manner which 

 was most gratifying to her. She was Honorary Doctor of Laws of the 

 University of Edinburgh ; Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, 

 London ; (for ten years) Consulting Entomologist to the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England ; (for three years) Examiner in Agricultural 

 Entomology in the University of Edinburgh (1896-8) ; Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society, London; Hon. Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society, Stockholm ; Member of the Entomological Society, Washing- 

 ton, U.S.A. ; Member of the Association of official Economic Entomolo- 



lsts, Washington, U.S.A. ; Hon. Member of the London Farmers' 

 lub ; Honorary and Corresponding Member of the Royal Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society of South Australia ; Hon. Member of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, and Corresponding Member of 

 the Field Naturalists' Club of Ontario, Canada ; and Member of the 

 Eastern Province Naturalists' Society, Cape Colony. 



2 List of the Hon. Graduates of 1900, given in the alphabetical order 

 in which they graduated : (i) Horatio Robert Forbes Brown, J.P., 



