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last., full of piety and good works, and justly esteemed and loved by all who knew her. 

 She and her sister were each other's constant companions and fellow workers, and each 

 sought the other's counsel and aid in carrying out any plan of work in which she was 

 engaged. Miss G. E. Ormerod's special studies were botany and conchology, and in the 

 latter department she formed a large and valuable collection of shells which she presented 

 a few years ago, to the Natural History Museum at Huddersfield. She was highly gifted 

 as a linguist, and acquired an excellent knowledge of French, Italian, Spanish and Ger- 

 man, and was thus enabled to be of the greatest assistance to her sister in correspondence 

 and the translation of foreign works of science. She is most widely known, however, by 

 her remarkable talents as an artist, which were employed in the illustration of her sister's 

 works, and in the production of a splendid series of diagrams in which are depicted a 

 large number of the most important injurious insects in all their life-stages. 



In addition to her scientific and artistic work she devoted much of her time and 

 means to benevolent objects, and carried out for many years at her own expense a system 

 of distributing books of an entertaining and instructive character amongst the working 

 classes. 



Women of such a type are rare, and we cannot but deeply deplore the loss of this 

 eminent Christian lady, who died at an advanced age, full of good works, performed in a 

 most unobtrusive manner ; richly endowed with intellectual and artistic talents which 

 she largely used for the benefit of others ; always happy and cheerful in her daily domes- 

 tic life ; kind, hospitable and sympathetic : ready to help all who deserved her aid, and 

 to give wise counsels to those who sought them from her. 



To her sister — her life long colleague — the loss is beyond what words can express. 

 We can only venture to offer to her our heart-felt sympathy and our earnest wish that 

 she may have grace and strength to endure so heavy a blow. 



C. J. S. B. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 



The Gypsy Moth. — A report of the work of destroying the insect in the Common- 

 wealth of Massachusetts, together with an account of its history and habits both in 

 Massachusetts and Europe. By E. H. Forbush and C. H. Fernald. 



This report, a handsome volume of nearly 600 pages, well printed and most copiously 

 illustrated with chromolithographs, photogravures and wood cuts, gives a full account of 

 the introduction of the now notorious "Gypsy Moth" into America by Leopold Trouvelot 

 in 1868 or 1869, traces its history, and records the efforts which have been made to 

 exterminate it by the State of Massachusetts up to the end of 1895. The spread of this 

 insect for the first ten years waa remarkably slow in the light of what we now know of 

 its capabilities for harm. During that period it was not noticed by anyone but the 

 introducer. The first extensive outbreak was in 1889, but for ten years before that it 

 had given great annoyance to the people living in the part of the town of Medford, where 

 it was first introduced. It had also spread and had gained a foothold in thirty town- 

 ships without attracting public attention. Since that time its history is well known. In 

 1890 the first Gypsy Moth Commission was appointed and the work of fighting the pest 

 was inaugurated. In February of the next year this commission was removed and 

 another one substituted. On 12th of March Mr. E. H. Forbusb, the present very efficient 

 " Director of field work," was appointed, and on 18th June Prof. C. H. Fernald began his 

 labors as entomological adviser. Since that time the work has been pushed on with great 

 energy and the present valuable report is an outcome of the combined efforts of a practi- 

 cal, energetic manager and a careful, scientific entomologist. The two parts of this report 

 prepared by the above named officers are quite distinct and form together a very complete 

 treatise, not only upon the Gypsy moth, but upon the general principles which it is 

 necessary to study when combatting any injurious insect. This carefully prepared report, 

 thtrefore, cannot but be for a long time an indispensable book of reference for economic 

 entomologists. 

 8 — EN. 



