Ixxxvlii 
Monthly Council, July 27, 1892. 
Mr. Whitehead, in presenting 
this report, said he was sure the 
Council would feel deep regret at the 
resignation of Miss Ormerod, who had 
rendered such valuable services to the 
Society by diffusing a sound and 
proper knowledge of economic ento- 
mology among agriculturists ; and he 
was confident the feeling of regret 
would be mingled with sympathy and 
concern at the cause of her resignation, 
viz., the unsatisfactory state of her 
health. In fact. Miss Ormerod's 
medical adviser had ordered her to 
abstain from much of her work. 
Miss Ormerod had elected to give up 
that portion of her labours which was, 
so to speak, obligatory, and to retain 
that which was more or less within 
her own control. The members of 
the Society at large — who would, he 
was confident, share the Council’s 
regret at Miss Ormerod’s resignation 
— had had the advantage of reading 
her valuable reports which had been 
published from time to time, as well 
as the annual reports which had ap- 
peared in the Journal of the Society, 
and they had gained very much 
knowledge concerning the insects 
injurious to their crops, and the 
remedies calculated to lessen those 
injuries. With regard to the Seeds 
and Plants Committee, it went 
without saying that they very much 
deplored the resignation of Miss 
Ormerod, on account of the valuable 
services which she had rendered to 
them, and to the Society, and on 
account of the severance of relations 
which had been very pleasant for a 
long series of years. They had, more- 
over, to face the great difficulty of 
replacing Miss Ormerod, and of find- 
ing a proper successor for her. It 
was satisfactory to be able to state 
tliat Miss Ormerod had consented to 
assist the Society by giving advice 
to members who might apply during 
the recess, and he only hoped that 
members would not trouble her un- 
necessarily with questions that were 
not specially important. It was also 
satisfactory to believe that Miss 
Ormerod would, if her health per- 
mitted, continue lier work in econo- 
mic entomology as applied to agri- 
culture, by which she had been able 
to spread so much valuable know- 
ledge in this country, and he might 
say throughout the world. (Hear, 
hear.) 
Earl Cathcaet concuiTed wifh 
every word_ spoken by Mr. White- 
head on this subject, and cordially 
agreed with him in his regret. He 
looked upon Miss Ormerod as the 
foundress of a school. She had one 
large book upon the subject of in- 
jurious insects already published, and 
he understood that she had now in 
the press an illustrated work which 
would be an admirable text-book for 
farmers, and also for the technical 
schools which had been established. 
The following resolution was then 
moved by Mr. Whitehead, seconded 
by Lord Cathcart, and carried un- 
animously : — 
The Council feel that they can- 
not allow their official relations 
with Miss Ormerod to cease with- 
out placing upon record their regret 
that the unsatisfactory state of her 
health necessitates her retirement 
from the post of Honorary Con- 
sulting Entomologist to the Society, 
and their high sense of the valuable 
services which she has rendered to 
the Society in advancing the know- 
ledge of economic entomology as 
applied to agriculture. 
The Chairman, in putting the 
motion, said he felt he only spoke the 
sense of every member of the Council 
in expressing their regret that Miss 
Ormerod felt obliged to resign, and 
that the Society would lose to some 
extent her valuable services. 
■Veterinary. 
Sir John Thorold (Chairman) 
reported the recommendation of the 
Committee that Professor Brown 
should be asked to write a leaflet on 
the cure of Contagious Foot-rot, and 
that his article in the last number of 
the Journal be published by the 
Society as a sixpenny pamphlet. 
They referred the details of the pro- 
posed publication to the Journal 
Committee. 
As under clause 4 of the scheme 
for the Registration of Farriers or 
Shoeing Smiths, half of the Society’s 
six representatives upon the Regis- 
tration Committee retired, but were 
eligible for re-appointment, the 
Committee recommended the re- 
