310 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Eleanor A. Ormerod. 



By the death of Miss Ormerod there has passed away a 

 notable Englishwoman. She was not only recognized as a 

 naturalist — being an entomologist of no inconsiderable attain- 

 ment — but she was distinguished in the higher sense of rendering 

 her science a practical value for the good of humanity. We 

 know in many cases the absolute impossibility of bringing zoology 

 into the domain of our national economy ; we also clearly see 

 the advisability of not seeking to do so on insufficient grounds ; 

 but it was the great work in the life of Miss Ormerod that she 

 made her favourite science a blessing to the community. Un- 

 endowed, except by her singleness of purpose, she took up a work 

 which appertains to a non-existent governmental department, 

 and cheerfully devoted her talent and much of her means to the 

 service of the agricultural and trading community. That this is 

 no hyperbole, and that entomology may be made a factor in the 

 welfare of our commercial life, is proved by the notices of her 

 death in papers which have reached us, not only such as represent 

 the agricultural interest, but others bearing such names as 'Mark 

 Lane Express,' ' Meat Trades Journal,' ' Boot and Shoe Trades 

 Journal,' &c. She may be said to have consecrated the study of 

 insects in the economic and commercial instincts of our national 

 life. 



The lady who thus brought natural history to the aid of the 

 democracy was well-born and carefully nurtured. She was the 

 third and youngest daughter of the late George Ormerod, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., &c., the author of the ' History of Cheshire,' who be- 

 longed to the Lancashire branch of the Ormerods of Ormerod. 

 Her mother was the eldest daughter of John Latham, M.D., 

 F.R.S., Fellow and sometime President of the Royal College of 

 Physicians. She may thus be said to trace her parentage from 

 an aristocracy of intellect. Born on May Jlth, 1828, she had 



