DEATH OF MISS ORMEROD LONDON, July 20.

Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 18

DEATH OF MISS ORMEROD LONDON, July 20.

Mi&s Eleanor Ormerod, the well-known authority on agricultural entomology, is dead.

Miss Eleanov Orinerod, entomologist, waa the youngest daughter of the iate Mr George Ornierod, D.C.L , F.R.S., of Sedtmry Park, Gloucester. In 1853 she began to mteiesfc herrelf m entomology, and 15 jears later, when the formation of a collection of economic entomology was brought about by the Eo>al HorticuHiual Society and the South Kensington, depaitment, the curator, Mr Andrew Murray, communicated wiih Miss Ormeiod, suggesting special investigations and reports. In response to this invitation she contributed specimens, drawings, and models illustrative of insect depredations, for which she was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Horticultural Society. In 1872. having" been selected to represent Great Britain in the natural history division of modelling from life at the International Polytechnic Exhibitipn, held in Moscow, she sent a large collection of plasfcsr-of-Paris models of garden plants ai:d hothouse fruits, taken in exact fac-simile by a process of her own invention, and coloured by herself; also groups of electrotjpe3 from rntrre, representing leaves aid reptiles. For thf-e exhibits she received the silver mcdr.l, the great silver medal, and in addition tb° c^okl medal of honour from the University of Moscow. In 1878 she was elected a fellow of the Meteorological Society, for which she arranged and edited a large number of reports, aud published them under the title of the '■ Cobh?m Journal." It was duiir.g this work that the idea occurred to her of obtaining; returns regarding insects and fungoid y-f&ts, and methods of prevention. This has since been carried out. In 1881 Miss Ormerod published a " Manual of Injurious Insects," and accepted the office of special lecturer on economic entomology at the Hoyal Agricultural College—an appointment she resigned sifter a fewyears because of the demanrlg made on her time in other directions. She became consulting entomologist to the Eoval Agricultural Society in 1882, and in 1884 brought out hex " Guide to Insect I/ife."