250 WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



distributing her publications. The amount of good she thus 

 did unaided and alone cannot be estimated. 



In her leaflet on the warble-fly, also known as bot-fly, she 

 estimates the annual damage to the stock-growers of the 

 United Kingdom from this pest at from 3,000,000 to 

 4,000,000. The losses due to fruit, grain and vegetable 

 insects of various kinds, before she began her insect cru- 

 sade, were much greater. In Great Britain and her col- 

 onies they amounted to very many millions of pounds ster- 

 ling every year. 1 



And most of these losses, as she demonstrated, were pre- 

 ventable by simple precautions which she eventually suc- 

 ceeded in inducing the people to adopt. How much she was 

 instrumental in saving annually to the farmers and garden- 

 ers of England by her writings and lectures can only be 

 imagined, but the sum must have been immense. 



When we recollect that Miss Ormerod accomplished all 

 her work before it occurred to the English Board of Agri- 

 culture to appoint a government entomologist, we shall 

 realize what a pioneer she was in the career in which she 

 achieved such distinction and through which she conferred 

 such inestimable benefits upon her fellows. 



Miss Ormerod 's entomological publications, especially her 

 annual reports, brought her into relations with people of 

 all classes throughout the whole world. Her correspond- 

 ence, in consequence, was enormous, and not infrequently 

 amounted to from fifty to a hundred letters a day. The 

 great entomologists of Europe and America held her in the 

 highest esteem, and had implicit faith in her judgment in 

 all matters pertaining to her specialty. 



One day she would receive a letter from an English gar- 

 dener begging for a remedy against the strawberry beetle. 



lit is estimated that the loss to the United States from cattle 

 ticks alone is $100,000,000 a year. According to the year-book of 

 the Agricultural Department for 1904, the annual losses to agriculture 

 from destructive insects reach the enormous sum of $420,000,000. 



