ORMEROD, ELEANOR A

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ORMEROD, ELEANOR A . (1828-1901), English entomologist, was the daughter of George Ormerod, F.R.S., author of The History of Cheshire, and was born at Sedbury Park, Gloucester-shire, on the 11th of May 1828. From her earliest childhood insects were her delight, and the opportunity afforded for entomological study by the large estate upon which she grew up and the

interest

INTEREST

she took in agriculture generally soon made her a local authority upon this subject. When, in 1868, the Royal Horticultural Society began forming a collection of

insect

INSECT

pests of the farm for

practical

PRACTICAL

purposes, Miss Ormerod largely contributed.to it, and was awarded the Flora

medal

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

of the society. In 1877 she issued a pamphlet, Notes for Observations
on Injurious Insects, which was distributed among persons interested in this line of inquiry, who readily sent in the results of their researches, and was thus the beginning of the well-known Annual

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of Reports on Injurious Insects and Farm Pests. In 1881 Miss Ormerod published a

special

SPECIAL

report upon the " turnip-fly," and in 1882 was appointed consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, a post she held until 1892. For several years she was lecturer on scientific entomology at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Her fame was not confined to England: she received silver and gold medals from the university of Moscow for her models of insects injurious to plants, and her treatise on The Injurious Insects of

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Africa showed how wide was her range. In 1899 she received the large silver

medal

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

from the Societe Nationale d' Acclimatation de France. Among others of her works are the Cobden

Journals

JOURNALS

Manual

MANUAL

of Injurious Insects, and Handbook of Insects injurious to Orchard and

Bush

BUSH

Fruits. Almost the last honour which fell to her was the honorary degree of LL.D. of Edinburgh Universitya unique distinction, for she was the first woman upon whom the university had conferred this degree. The dean of the legal faculty in making the presentation aptly summoned up Miss Ormerod's services as follows: " The pre-eminent position which Miss Ormerod holds in the world of science is the reward of patient study and unwearying observation. Her investigations have been chiefly directed towards the discovery of methods for the prevention of the ravages of those insects which are injurious to orchard, field and forest. Her labours have been crowned with such success that she is entitled to be hailed the protectress of agriculture and the frujts of the eartha beneficent Demeter of the 19th century." She died at St Albans on the 19th of July 1901.

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