Ormerod, ELEANOR A.

Ormerod, ELEANOR A., entomologist, the daughter of George Ormerod (1785-1873), the historian of Cheshire. She commenced her contributions to the science of entomology in 1868 in connection with the Bethnal Green Museum. In 1880 she edited the Cobham Journals, being the meteorological and other observations made during forty years by Miss C. Molesworth, and involving enormous labour in the consultation of 75,000 observations. In 1882 Miss Ormerod was appointed consulting entomologist of the Royal Agricultural Society, and shortly afterwards became special lecturer on economic entomology at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Her Manual of Injurious Insects (1881) and her Guide to Methods of Insect Life (1884) are the most generally interesting of her works, which consist principally of papers on different injurious insects of South Africa and Australia, as well as of England. She is LL.D. (Edin. 1899), F.E.S., &c.