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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [April 



NATURALISTS OF THE DAY. 



IV. -MISS ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, F.E.S., F R.Met.S., &c. 



The lady whose portrait Ave have the pleasure of presenting to 

 our readers to-day is best known as Honorary Consulting Entomologist 

 to the Royal xA.gricultural Society, in connection with which she has 

 recently issued her fifteenth annual report. ' Only those who have 

 read these volumes are qualified to judge of the services Miss Ormerod 

 has rendered to Agriculture in England. While many are cognizant 

 of the " scares'' respecting "The Colorado Potato Beetle," "The 

 Hessian Fly," or the recent immigration of " The Diamond-Back 

 ]\Ioth," few are aware of the constant and serious injury done in 

 many ways by insects in their various stages. A mere enumeration 

 of the species treated on from time to time in Miss Ormerod's reports 

 would occupy much of our space. In the last report seven pages are 

 devoted to Ephestia kuhniella, one of the latest additions to our fauna, 

 and which appears to be rapidly extending its ravages to various 

 parts of the kingdom ; and no less than sixty pages are given to a 

 full report of the ravages of the Diamond-back Moth {Plutella cruci- 

 fevarmn). which inflicted so serious an injury on the turnips on the 

 east coast last year. Miss Ormerod is also authoress of " A Manual 

 of Remedies and Means of Prevention for the Attacks of Insects on 

 Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit," which has reached a second 

 edition ; "A Guide to ^.lethods of Insect Life, and Prevention 

 Remedy of Insect Ravage ; " " The Hessian Fly in Great Britain ; " 

 " The Turnip Fly ; " " The Warble Fly," &c., &c. 



Obituary. 



FRANCIS ARCHER. 



It is with great regret I announce the death of my late friend, 

 ]\Ir. Francis Archer, B.A., F.E.S., &c., &c., who passed away on 

 ^Monday, February 29th, after a week's illness, of diphtheria, at his 

 residence, 21, ]\Iulgrave Street, Liverpool, aged 52 years. He was 

 the son of the late Francis Archer, Esq., M.R.C.S., a well-known 

 medical practitioner of this town, who was also a Naturalist, his 

 speciality being Conchology. He left two sons, both of wdiom in- 

 herited their father's inborn love of Natural History. His eldest son, 

 Surgeon-Major Samuel Arclier, has been much abroad with his 

 regiment, and for years has been in the habit of contributing valued 

 objects of Natural History to the Liverpool Museum. His brother, 

 whose death we now so deeply mourn, held a high position his pro- 



