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appetite for further knowledge of creatures which could do such 
dreadful things, and happily her father’s Gloucestershii’e property 
(Sedbury Park, opposite Chepstow in Monmouthshire) afforded 
admirable opportunities for the study of plant, bird, and insect life. 
As her father advanced in years she undertook a considerable share 
in the management of the farm and the estate, and this gave to Miss 
Ormerod that practical knowledge of agricultural affairs which is so 
abundantly evidenced in lier numerous writings. 
About the year 1868 the Royal Horticultural Society, in con- 
junction with the Science and Art Department, commenced to form 
a collection illustrative of insects useful or injurious to cultivators, 
and to this Miss Ormerod for a period of ten years largely con- 
tributed, sending specimens of insects in their different stages, 
together with examples of injury inflicted upon timber, corn, roots, 
and other crops. In recognition of this work the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society awarded her the Flora Medal, and later she received 
silver and gold medals from the University of Moscow for her 
beautiful models of insect injury to plants. 
A shrewd appreciation of the large amount of valuable informa- 
tion possessed by farmers and farm labourers, acquired by them in 
the field, has undoubtedly contributed much to the success which 
Miss Ormerod has achieved. She tapped this store of knowledge, 
and skilfully systematised and correlated what had previously 
been isolated facts — but facts none the less. She won the sympathy 
of the farm labourers at Sedbury, and they became her willing 
helpers in tracing and procuring insects and specimens of their 
mischief. 
After her father’s death Miss Ormerod conceived the idea of 
recording the results of sustained observations upon the ravages of 
insect pests on the farm and in the garden. Encouraged by Dr. 
Maxwell Masters, F.R.S., Editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle, and by 
the late Mr. J. Chalmers Morton, she issued in the early part of 
1877 a brief pamphlet entitled Notes for Observations on Injurious 
Insects. This was sent to various persons who, it was hoped, 
would become observers, and the information thereby obtained was 
published in the autumn of the same year, thus forming the first of 
the annual series of valuable reports, the fifteenth of which was 
issued in the early part of 1892. 
The number of observers rapidly increased, and the extensive 
outbreak of turnip fly in 1881 led Miss Ormerod to publish in 1882 
her first special report. This was followed by her appointment in 
May, 1882, as Honorary Consulting Entomologist to the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, in which capacity she made special 
reports, printed in the Journal, of various attacks upon crops. In 
1886, she identified, for the first time in England, the presence of 
the Hessian fly. Wireworm, hop aphis, mustard beetle, and other 
pest.s, each in turn formed the subject of special inquiry, whilst the 
ruinous attacks upon cattle by warble flies were under investigation 
for several years. 
Notwithstanding the heavy burden of consulting work, IMiss 
