Eleanor Anne Ormerod

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Eleanor Anne Ormerod

Eleanor Anne Ormerod (born May 11, 1828 in Sedbury Park , Gloucestershire , † July 19, 1901 in St Albans , Hertfordshire ) was a British entomologist . She published in particular about insect pests.

Life

Eleanor Anne Ormerod was the daughter of George Ormerod (1785–1873), an antiquarian (author of The history of Cheshire ) and a Fellow of the Royal Society. She has been studying the insects in the extensive park where she grew up since she was a teenager and later also became an expert in agriculture and horticulture. When the Royal Horticultural Society began collecting insect pests in 1868, it helped build the collection and received its Flora Medal for this. From 1877 she began to publish a bulletin on harmful insects (Reports on injurious insects and farm pests). In 1881 she published a treatise on the little cabbage fly (Delia radicum). From 1882 to 1892 she was an advisory entomologist for the Royal Agricultural Society. For several years she lectured on entomology at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester . She has published books on insect pests and essays on insect pests in South Africa and on orchids.

Ormerod also found international recognition and received a silver and gold medal from Lomonosov University and in 1899 the great silver medal from the Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France. She was the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate (LLD) from the University of Edinburgh.

Fonts

  • Manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees and fruit: to which is appended a short introduction to entomology . 1890
  • Paris-green (or Emerald-green): its uses, and methods for its application, as a means of destruction of orchard moth caterpillars . 1891
  • Handbook of insects injurious to orchards and bush fruits with means of prevention and remedy . 1898
  • Flies injurious to stock: being life-histories and means of prevention of a few kinds commonly injurious, with special observations on ox warble or bot fly . 1900
  • Eleanor Ormerod, LLD, economic entomologist: autobiography and correspondence . Dutton, New York 1904 (Editor Robert Wallace)

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SURNAME Ormerod, Eleanor Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Sedbury Park , Gloucestershire
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1901
Place of death St Albans , Hertfordshire