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Diptera (although it was published just before he went out of 

 office), and to express a hope that more will soon be forth- 

 coming : nor perhaps ought Maurice Maeterlinck's work " La 

 vie d'Abeille " to be passed over, as being the only serious 

 work on Entomology of which over ten thousand copies were 

 sold in a few weeks. 



Our Obituary is, I am glad to say, very small, the smallest, 

 I believe, on record. 



Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod was well known as an observer 

 of injurious insects, and for many years did very valuable 

 work for agriculturalists : she published twenty-four Annual 

 Reports on insect pests and several larger works which have 

 had a wide circulation : she was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society in 1878, and in 1900 the University of Edinburgh 

 conferred upon her the degree of LL.D. : by her will she has 

 left a large sum of money to the University for the furtherance 

 of Economic Entomology, and it is hoped that a chair or a 

 readership at least in the subject may be founded : in private 

 life Miss Ormerod was well known for her kindness and 

 generosity ; I remember some years ago, applying to her for 

 a contribution towards saving the collections of an Entomo- 

 logist, which, through no fault of his own, were perforce 

 coming under the hammer, and receiving, I believe by return 

 of post, a sum more than sufficient to make up the required 

 difference. 



Mr. Lionel de Niceville first went out to India about 

 1870. In 1879, when he was employed in the N.W.P. Secre- 

 tariat at Simla, he and Major Gr. F. L. Marshall, R.E., formed 

 a project for publishing a joint work on the Butterflies of 

 India, Ceylon and Burma; in 1882 they published vol. i, 

 pt. 1, and in 1883 pt. 2 ; after this Major Marshall's health 

 compelled him to give up the work, which de Niceville con- 

 tinued alone, publishing in 1886 vol. ii, and in 1890 vol. iii, 

 since which time nothing further has been published, though 

 we believe the MSS. of the other volumes is complete, and 

 hope that some one will be found to take up his work and 

 publish the two remaining volumes. De Niceville also pub- 

 lished a large number of papers on the Butterflies of the 

 Oriental Regions, principally in the Journals of the Royal 



