Eleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and Correspondence

This closing chapter records the peaceful close of the wonderful career of a remarkable gentlewoman who devoted her life to work in the successful effort to benefit her fellow m...

Representative letters to five foreign and colonial scientific entomologists have been gathered into this chapter, among other reasons to show the diversity of Miss Ormerod’s wo...

General references to insect infestation—Progress of Economic Entomology—Success in using Paris-green in Britain—End of work done for the Board of Agriculture and Royal Agricult...

The grouping of the letters to three correspondents, so differently interested in Entomology and other branches of Biology, was more a matter of dates than of any scientific rel...

As a public lecturer Miss Ormerod achieved a high measure of success. The first effort in this capacity was made at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where as “Specia...

The letters addressed to the two distinguished United States officials are unlike most of those we have passed. Miss Ormerod writes, as usual, in courteous and even in deferenti...

In addition to the entomological value of the next group of letters dealing chiefly with Ox warbles, Miss Ormerod’s unselfish interest in promoting a wider knowledge of her subj...

The letters addressed to Dr. Fletcher after his visit to Miss Ormerod and her sister Georgiana at St. Albans have here been grouped, as a matter of convenience, with letters to...

London Farmers’ Club Notice—Volumes of George Ormerod’s drawings and a painting of Miss Ormerod presented to the University—Handbook of “Forest Insects”—“Recollections of Changi...

Our Parish Church (plate VII.), that is to say, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Tidenham, Gloucestershire, in which parish my father’s Sedbury property was situated, was of c...

This chapter is unlike any of the foregoing chapters of correspondence in its purely personal character. Interested readers will not fail to recognise in it the genuine feminine...

Washing Wheat—Text-book on Insects—Grease-banding Trees—Steven Lecturer on Agricultural Entomology—Australian agriculture—Examiner in Agricultural Entomology—Insect cases presen...

The subjoined letters to Mr. Gibb are unique in that they deal with a wider range of subjects than any of Miss Ormerod’s letters to other British observers. She recognised and a...

MR. JANSON, addressed in the opening letters of this chapter, occupied the position of technical expert, to whom Miss Ormerod referred her generally accurate identifications of...

The removal of Miss Ormerod and her sister, Georgiana, from Torquay to Spring Grove, Isleworth, was primarily because Torquay did not suit their health and secondarily because a...

The locality round which most of the recollections of nearly half my life centre is in the district of Gloucestershire, between the Severn and the Wye (opposite Chepstow in Monm...

In the spring of 1877 I issued a short pamphlet of seven pages, entitled “Notes for Observations of Injurious Insects,”[27] in which I suggested how much a series of observation...

A number of interesting and important fresh subjects are here concisely treated in letters addressed to various British inquirers. These are merely characteristic samples of a v...

The letters in this the first chapter of correspondence (dealing with a number of moths, the caterpillars of which are destructive to vegetation), were written while Miss Ormero...

I was born at Sedbury Park, in West Gloucestershire, on a sunny Sunday morning (the 11th of May, 1828), being the youngest of the ten children of George and Sarah Ormerod, of Se...

So far as a date can be given to what has been the absorbing interest of the work of my life, the 12th of March, 1852, would be about the beginning of my real study of Entomolog...

The situation of Sedbury (plate I.), rising to an elevation of about 170 feet between the Severn and the Wye, opposite Chepstow, was very beautiful, and the vegetation rich and...

My cousin Eleanor Anne Ormerod was the youngest of a family of ten—seven brothers and three sisters—all clever, energetic creatures, and gifted with a strong sense of humour. A...

The remembrance of the Chartist[23] rising in Monmouthshire of November, 1839, must have long faded away, except from the minds of the few survivors who were concerned in its su...

It was a good many years after my name had been before the public as an official Consulting Entomologist that I began occasionally to receive applications to furnish what is cal...

In my early days much of the passenger transit of South Wales and the south-westerly part of England passed over the old Passage Ferry across the Severn from Beachley to Aust, a...

LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE (_concluded_): Papers of 313 “Reminiscences” sent to the editor—Details of letterpress material and of subjects for plates—Photo of oil painting tak...

LETTERS TO MR. GRIMSHAW, MR. WISE, AND MR. TEGETMEIER 149 (_Grimshaw_) The Red-bearded botfly—Deer forest fly—Ox and deer warble flies. (_Wise_) Case of caddis worms injuring cr...

LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE AFTER THE GRADUATION: 299 Congratulations by the London Farmers’ Club—Agricultural education and how to help it—Painting in oil of Miss Ormerod for...

COMMENCEMENT AND PROGRESS OF ANNUAL REPORTS OF OBSERVATIONS 59 OF INJURIOUS INSECTS: Preliminary pamphlet issued in 1877—Explanation of the objects aimed at—Approval of the publ...

LETTERS TO MR. JANSON AND MR. MEDD: (_Janson_) Deer forest 259 flies—Identification confirmed by Professor Joseph Mik—Flour or mill moth—Granary Weevils—Shot-borer beetles—Pine...

LETTERS FROM DRS. RITZEMA BOS, SCHÖYEN, REUTER, AND NALEPA, 232 MR. LOUNSBURY AND MR. FULLER: (_Ritzema Bos_) Stem eel-worms—Cockchafer—Root-knot eel-worm—Black lady-bird feedin...

LETTERS TO DR. J. FLETCHER (_continued_) AND TO DR. BETHUNE: 217 (_Fletcher_) Foreign authorities in correspondence—Dr. Nalepa’s books—Silk moths—Red spider—Formalin as a disinf...

LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE ON THE LL.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY 287 OF EDINBURGH: Proposal of the Senatus of Edinburgh University to confer the LL.D. on Miss E. A. Ormerod as the fi...

PARENTAGE: Localities of Sedbury Park and Tyldesley, the 7 properties of George Ormerod—Roman remains—The family of Ormerod since 1311—Three George Ormerods of Bury—Reference to...

CHURCH AND PARISH: Tidenham parish church—Leaden font—The 20 Norman Chapel of Llancaut—The history of Tidenham Church—Curious practices in neighbouring churches—The church as sc...

LETTERS TO DR. J. FLETCHER: Dr. Voelcker’s gas lime 195 pamphlet—Honorary membership of Entomological Society of Ontario—Ostrich fly—“Silver-top” in wheat—The “Crowder”—Mill or...

LETTERS TO MR. WM. BAILEY: Mr. Bailey’s letter to H.G. the 109 Duke of Westminster on Ox warble fly—Letter showing the destruction of Ox warbles by the boys—R.A.S.E. recognition...

BEGINNING THE STUDY OF ENTOMOLOGY, COLLECTIONS OF ECONOMIC 53 ENTOMOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, AND FAMILY DISPERSAL: Beginning of Entomology 1852—A rare locust—Purchase of Stephen’s “Ma...

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THE EDITOR (_continued_): Public 83 lectures at the Royal Agricultural College—Reasons why lecturing was ultimately discontinued—Lectures at South Kensing...

REMINISCENCES OF SEDBURY BY MISS DIANA LATHAM: The Ormerod 14 family of ten—The father and mother and their respective interests in literature and art—Sedbury Park and the hobbi...

SAMPLES OF LEGAL EXPERIENCES: First employment as an expert 68 witness in 1889—Case of Wilkinson _v._ The Houghton Main Colliery Company, Limited—Form of subpœna—Rusty-red flour...

CHARTIST RISING IN MONMOUTHSHIRE IN 1839: Chartist rising in 47 Monmouth under John Frost, ex-draper of Newport—Home experience—Defenceless state of Sedbury house—Trial and sent...

SEVERN AND WYE: “Forest Peninsula” between Severn and 33 Wye—Ruined chapel of St. Tecla—Muddy experiences—Scenery on the Severn—Rise of Tides—Colour and width of the river—Saili...

LETTERS TO MR. D. D. GIBB: Great tortoiseshell butterfly 128 infestation—Charlock weevil—Gout fly—Forest fly—Structure of its foot—Great gadfly—Horse breeze flies—Deer forest fl...

LETTERS TO PROFESSOR ROBERT WALLACE BEFORE 1900: “Indian 275 Agriculture”—Wheat screening and washing—Text books of injurious insects—Grease-banding trees—Dr. Fream—Mosley’s ins...

LETTERS TO PROFESSOR RILEY AND DR. HOWARD: (_Riley_) Flour 179 moth caterpillars—Differences of mineral oils—Trapping the winter moth—Orchard growers Experimental Committee. (_H...

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THE EDITOR: Reasons for changes of 73 residence—Intimacy with Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker at Kew—Interesting people met there—Appointed Consulting Entomolo...

LETTERS TO MR. MARTIN, MR. GEORGE, MR. CONNOLD, AND MESSRS. 169 COLEMAN AND SONS: (_Martin_) Elm-bark beetle—Ash-bark beetle—Large ash-bark beetle—Galleries—Preventive measure....

TRAVELLING BY COACH, FERRY, AND RAILWAY: Many coaches 43 passing Sedbury Park gates—Dangers of travelling—View of the Severn valley—The Old Ferry passage of the Severn—Swamping...

BIRTH, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION: Born at Sedbury Park, May, 1 1828—recollections of early childhood—First insect observation—Girlish occupations—Education of the family—Eleanor O...

LETTERS TO COLONEL COUSSMAKER AND MR. ROBERT SERVICE: 99 (_Coussmaker_) Insect diagrams Royal Agricultural Society—Surface caterpillars—Wood leopard moth—Puss moth. (_Service_)—...