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medal of the society. In 1877 she issued a pamphlet, Notes for Observations on Injurious Insects, which was distributed among persons interested in this See also:

LINE

line of inquiry, who readily sent in the results of their researches, and was thus the beginning of the well-known See also:

ANNUAL

Annual See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series of Reports on Injurious Insects and Farm Pests. In 1881 Miss Ormerod published a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report upon the " See also:

TURNIP

turnip-See also:

FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly," and in 1882 was appointed consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, a See also:

POST

post she held until 1892. For several years she was lecturer on scientific See also:

ENTOMOLOGY (Gr. iv-roµa, insects, and Xiryos, a discourse)

entomology at the Royal Agricultural See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

CIRENCESTER (traditionally pronounced Ciceter)

Cirencester. Her fame was not confined to See also:

England: she received See also:

SILVER

silver and See also:

gold medals from the university of See also:

Moscow for her See also:

MODELS

models of insects injurious to See also:

PLANTS

plants, and her See also:

TREATISE

treatise on The Injurious Insects of See also:

South See also:

Africa showed how wide was her range. In 1899 she received the large silver medal from the Societe Nationale d' Acclimatation de See also:

France. Among others of her See also:

WORKS

works are the See also:

COBDEN, RICHARD (1804-1865)

Cobden See also:

JOURNALS

Journals, See also:

MANUAL

Manual of Injurious Insects, and Handbook of Insects injurious to See also:

ORCHARD (O. Eng. ort-geard, later orceard; a combination apparently of Lat. hortus, garden, and " yard " or " Barth ")

Orchard and See also:

BUSH

Bush Fruits. Almost the last See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour which See also:

fell to her was the honorary degree of LL.D. of See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh University—a unique distinction, for she was the first woman upon whom the university had conferred this degree. The See also:

dean of the legal See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty in making the presentation aptly summoned up Miss Ormerod's services as follows: " The pre-eminent position which Miss Ormerod holds in the See also:

WORLD

world of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science is the See also:

REWARD

reward of patient study and unwearying observation.

Her investigations have been chiefly directed towards the See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery of methods for the prevention of the ravages of those insects which are injurious to orchard, See also:

field and See also:

FOREST

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 See also:

earth—a beneficent See also:

DEMETER

Demeter of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century." She died at St Albans on the 19th of See also:

JULY

July 1901.

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