INDEX
Reading edition
A
Abraxas grossulariata, Magpie moth, 114 (Fig.)
Accentor modularis, Dunnock or Hedge-sparrow, 162
Acrididæ, 333
“Agriculture and Rural Economy of Australia and New Zealand,” Professor Wallace’s, 280
Agriculture, Board of, Miss Ormerod’s aid to the Adviser given and withdrawn, 202
Agricultural College (Royal), Cirencester, Miss Ormerod’s lectures at, 83; Professor Harker at, 83; Principal of, 201
Agricultural Education Committee, 271, 272, 273
Agricultural Education in the Elementary School, 271
Agricultural Entomology, progress of, 200; work on, 276; Miss Ormerod, Co-Examiner in, 282
Agricultural lectureship proposed in Oxford University, 225
Agricultural Society (Royal), Miss Ormerod’s diagrams for, 88; work for discontinued, 212
“Agricultural Zoology,” by Dr. Ritzema Bos, translated by Professor Ainsworth-Davis, 222
Agrotis exclamationis, Heart-and-dart moth, Linn., 101 (Fig.)
Agrotis segetum, Ochsenheimer, Turnip moth, 101 (Fig.)
“Alder Killer,” German name of Mottled Willow Weevil, 267
Aldersey schoolboys, 113, 119, 127
336Alfalfa (lucerne) hay infested with locusts, 228, 229
Alopecurus pratensis, 244
Altum, Dr. Bernard, Forst Zoologie, 61
American Ambassador, congratulations of the, 193
American blight, see Schizoneura lanigera, 142, 143, 144
American clover-seed midge, 198
American migratory locusts, South, 229
Anbury, club-root, or finger and toe, see Plasmodiophora, 196, 213
Angoumois moth, 188
Anguillulidæ (eel-worms), 198, 282
Anguillula radicicola, 213
Annual Reports, see Reports
Anobium paniceum, 253
Anthomyia ceparum, 60
Antler moth, see Charæas graminis
Ants, black, 138
“Ap Adam” oak, 93, Pl. xxi
Aphides, 79; attack of, 222, 250, 257
Aphis, woolly, Schizoneura lanigera 144 (Fig.)
Apple-bark beetle, see Xyleborus dispar, 199
Arbuthnot, Mrs., 292, 301
Architects, practice of, 7
Arderne of Alvanley, family of, 13
Argyresthia conjugella, 247
Arkwright (J. H.) of Hampden Court, Herefordshire, 76
Armstrong, Dr., 28, 29
Army worm (Leucania unipunctata), paper on, by Dr. L. O. Howard, 184
337Arnold, Dr., of Rugby, 3
Arsenite of Copper, 201
Artists, the Misses Ormerod as, 18, 74
Ash-bark beetle, see Hylesinus
Ashworth, Miss, letter from, 320
Aspidiotus perniciosus, San José scale, 242
Assistant, reasons for refusing an, 79
Astynomus ædilis, 224
Atomaria linearis, Mangold beetle, 230 (Fig.)
Aust “Bone bed,” 40
Aust cliffs, 39, 40
Austen’s opinion on “Deer forest fly,” Mr., 261
Australian thrips, 183; larvæ, 277
Autumnal breeze fly, see Tabanus autumnalis
Avian Rat, nickname for the sparrow, 160, 168
Axe, Professor, 85
B
Bacon fly, see Piophila casei
Bacon, Lord, burial-place, 298
Badam’s Court, 93
Bailey, Colonel, 303
Bailey, Mr., Editor of the Dumfries Herald and Courier, 106
Bailey, Mr. William, letters to, 109-127; letter from, to the Duke of Westminster, 111
Barley, Hessian fly on, 132 (Fig.)
Barnes Cottage, 7
Barnesville, 7
“Bat beetle,” see Harpalus ruficornis
Bath and West of England Society Show, Misses Ormerod’s insect cases and diagrams at, 283, 284
Bathurst’s, Mr., paper on “Orchards,” 273-274
Bean-beetle, see Bruchus
Beans and peas attacked by Eel-worms, 304
Bean-seed weevil—sad-coloured (Bruchus tristis); red-footed (B. rufipes); red-horned (B. brachialis), 271, see Bruchus
Beans infested with beetles, 269, 270
Beaufort, Duke of, 7
338Becker, Miss Lydia, as an upholder of “Women’s Rights,” 86
Beckett, Edmund, Lord Grimthorpe, 91, see Grimthorpe
Bee, Mason, 174
Beet carrion beetle, see Silpha opaca, 142, 220
Beetles in the Argentine territories, 222
Beetles (water), killing of, 54
Bethnal Green Museum, connection with, 87
Bethune, Rev. Dr., letters to, 73, 90, 213, 227-231
Bigge, General and Mrs., 298
Biographical sketch of Miss Ormerod, by the Editor, 73
Bipalium kewense, a land planarian, 192 (Fig.)
Birth, childhood, and education, Miss Ormerod’s, 1
Black-currant gall mite, 153, 154, 155, 156, 177, see Phytoptus
Bladder or pocket plums, 176 (Fig.)
Bodleian Library, 58
Bolivar’s, Señor Don Igo, assistance on locust specimens, 218
“Bone Bed,” the Aust, 40
Books, lending of, 29
Boot beetle, see Anobium paniceum
Boot-upper injured by beetle, 254 (Fig.)
Bos, Dr. Ritzema, 79, 131, 132, 156, 189, 204, 296; letters to, 232-237
Botanical Magazine, drawings for, 74
Botfly, the, see Hypoderma
“Bottle-nosed whale,” or dolphin, capture of, 38, 39
Bradwall Hall, Cheshire, 11
Brauer’s, Dr., frontispiece to his “Œstridæ,” 149, 150
Breathing tubes of maggot, of ox warble fly, &c., 112 (Fig.)
Breeze flies, see Tabanidæ
Brighton, Miss Ormerod refers to taking a villa at, 264, 266
Bruchus, the pea and bean Weevil, 268, rufimanus, &c., 269 (Fig.) 270, 271, see Bean-seed weevil
Bruner, Lawrence, Locust Investigation Commission Report, 229
Bryobia prætiosa, gooseberry and ivy red spider, 220, 221 (Fig.)
339Buckland, Frank, on “Putts,” 37, 327, 328
Buckler, Mr. William, 107
Buckton, G. B., on Aphides, 79, 80
Bunbury Parish, work done by schoolboys of, 111
Burd, Rev. Percy, 29
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, letters from, 214
Bury, Lancashire, 9
Buttington, battle of, 23
C
Cabbage green fly, 101
Caddis fly, see Mormonia nigromaculata, 152
Caddis worms attacking water-cresses, 151, 152, 282
Cadelle, the, see Trogosita
Caerwent, 7, 174
Calandra (Sitophilus) granaria, granary weevil, 191, 262 (Fig.), 267; C. oryzæ, 262
Calwer’s “Käferbuch,” 270
“Canadian Entomologist,” quoted, 202, 211, 223
Canadian friends, Miss Ormerod’s, 73
Cauvin’s Hospital, Editor’s Lecture at, 289
Cecidomyia destructor, Hessian fly, 129, 131 (Fig.), 132, 143, 147, 182; C. tritici, 131; C. leguminicola, 198
Cecidomyia (Diplosis) equestris, 137
Centipede and millipede, 143 (Fig.)
Cephenomyia rufibarbis, Red-bearded botfly, 149, 150, 151
Cephus pygmæus, Corn sawfly, 147 (Fig.)
Cerostoma xylostella, Curtis, see Plutella cruciferarum
Ceuthorhynchus contractus, Charlock weevil, 130 (Fig.)
Chapel of St. Tecla, dimensions, 34, ruins, Pl. x
Charæas graminis, Antler moth, 104, 105 (Fig.), 185, 284
Charlock weevil, see Ceuthorhynchus contractus
Charlotte, Princess, “the people’s darling,” death of, 6
Chartist Rising, 47-52; map of district, Pl. xv
340Cheese-fly, see Piophila casei, 125 (Fig.)
Cheimatobia brumata, 121, 146, 183
Chepstow, 15, 30, 33, 43, 53, Pl. xvii
Chepstow Bridge, Pl. xiii
Chepstow Castle, Pls. ix., xvi.
Chepstow Parish Church, Plate vi.
Cheshire, see Chester
Chest, oak, from Hulgreve Hall, 58, Pl. xviii
Chester, Dr. Ormerod’s “History of the County Palatine and City,” 8, 13, 58
Chinese Minister Plenipotentiary, 307
Chinese naturalist and Miss Ormerod, 75
Chittenden’s, Mr., paper on Household Insects, 266
Chlorops tæniopus, Meigen, Gout fly, 132, 133 (Fig.), 147
Choate, Mr., meeting with, 193; characteristics, 297
Chrysops cæcutiens, small blinding breeze fly, 136 (Fig.)
Church customs, old, 23
Cidaria dotata, Linn., spinach moth, 231 (Fig.)
Clayden, ancestral oak at, 121
Cleg, or small rain breeze fly, Hæmatopota pluvialis, 136 (Fig.)
Clergy, old local, 27
Cliviger township, 8
Clothing Club, 30
Clover-stem sickness, 226, 282
Club-root, Anbury, or Finger and toe, 196, 213
Coccinella bipunctata, 2-spotted lady-bird; C. septempunctata, 7-spotted lady-bird, 234 (Fig.); C. ocellata, eyed lady-bird, 237 (Fig.)
Cockchafer beetle and grubs, Melolontha vulgaris, 209, 233 (Fig.), 277, block, 280
Codlin moth, prevention, 277
Coleman & Sons, Messrs. W. J., letters to, 177
Collection of specimens of injurious insects, 87
“Common Fly Attacks to Farm Stock,” by Miss Ormerod, 304
Conger eels, 35
Connold, Mr. Ed. T., letters to, 175, 241
341Contribution, Miss Ormerod’s first, to scientific literature, 59
Contributions, Miss Ormerod’s recognition of, 62, 66
Copleston, Bishop, 15
Copper, arsenite and arseniate of, 201
Cormorants, 35
Corn fly, Ribbon-footed, see Chlorops tæniopus
Corn sawfly, 147
Correggios, “Marriage of St. Catherine,” 16
Correspondence, steadiness of, Miss Ormerod’s, 78, 79, letters, 97
Cosby, Sir Henry, 7
Cossus ligniperda, Goat moth, 268 (Fig.)
County dinner party, formality of, 15
Courage, Miss Ormerod’s, 92-94
Coussmaker, Colonel, letters to, 99-104
Cranefly (Daddy longlegs), Tipula, 64, 284
Crawford, Mr. Frazer, of Adelaide, 210
Croft, Sir Richard, 6
Cross-fertilisation (multiple), 298
Cryptorhynchus lapathi, L., mottled willow weevil, 267
Crystal oil, 181
Cucujus testaceus, 263
Currant and gooseberry scale, Lecanium ribis, 214 (Fig.)
Currant, black and red, 156, 157
Curtis, John, “Farm Insects,” 63, 276; work, &c., 184
Cutworms, or caterpillars of the dart or turnip moth, 100, 101 (Fig.)
Cynips galls, 177
D
Daddy longlegs, see Tipula
Dalquhairn, Holm of, 105
Damsons, curiously formed, 175
Danysz’s, J., paper on Ephestia (Flour moth), 216
Dart or turnip moth, see Agrotis segetum
Darwinianism, 276
Darwinism, 335
Davis, Professor Ainsworth, translation of Ritzema Bos’s Agricultural Zoology, 222
342Dean, Forest of, lawlessness in, 38
Death, Miss Ormerod’s, letters in prospect of, 325
Deer forest fly, see Lipoptera cervi
Deer warble fly, see Hypoderma diana
Degrees and medals, Miss Ormerod’s, 95, see LL.D.
Dell & Son’s information, 275
Diagrams, Miss G. Ormerod’s, 88; coloured, published by R.A.S.E., 99
Diamond-back moth, see Plutella cruciferarum
Dicranura vinula, Linn., 103 (Fig.)
Diptera, Westwood’s use of “Insecta Britannica—Diptera,” 136
Dipterous parasites, 107
Dogs as message-bearers, 11; Miss Ormerod’s adventures with, 92
Dolphin, Bottle-nosed (Delphinus tursio), 38
Druce’s, Mr., proposed vote of congratulation, 300
Drawings and water-colours, set of Dr. George Ormerod’s, 298, 300, 301
Dunn, Malcolm, assistance of, 61
Dunnock, the hedge-sparrow, Accentor modularis, 162
Durobrivian ware, 8
Dyer, Professor Bernard, as a helper, 200
Dytiscus marginalis, water beetle, 54, 124 (Fig.)
E
Earwig, see Forficula
Edinburgh University, bequest to, 283, 284, 285; text-book for, 303; Miss Ormerod appointed external examiner in Agricultural Entomology, 123
Eel-worms, 186, 198, 282, 304
Electros bought from Messrs. Blackie & Son, 63
Elliot & Fry’s portraits, 300
Elm-bark beetle, see Scolytus destructor, 169, 170 (Fig.)
Entomological Society of Ontario, 73
Entomological Societies, Miss Ormerod’s communications with, 78
Entomologist, consulting, to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 75
343Entomology, Miss Ormerod beginning the study of, 53; first step in, 2; lectures on, in Edinburgh, 279
Entomology, economic, progress of, 206
Ephestia kuhniella, Zell, 180, 198, 202, 212, 262, 263
Evans, Mrs., 91
Evesham Committee work, 204
Evolution, Professor Riley on, 335
Exhibition in the Palace of Industry, Paris, August, 1868, 54
Exoascus pruni, Professor Marshall Ward on, 175
Exorista lota, parasite of Lepidoptera, 107
F
Family dispersal, 56
“Famine in India,” by Wallace, 308
“Farm Insects,” by Curtis, 184
“Farm Pests,” leaflets on, 65
Farm stock, fly attacks on, 65, 304
Fernald, Dr., 187
Ferry, Old Passage, 38, 44, 45, 50
Fielding, Copley, 16
Finger and toe, see Plasmodiophora brassicæ
“Flacherie,” the, 106, 107, 186
Flatworm, 192
“Flax-seeds,” 131, 142, 197
Fletcher, Dr., 188; letters to, 77, 116, 195-227
“Flies injurious to Stock,” Miss Ormerod’s, 65, 305
Flour beetle, rust-red, see Tribolium ferrugineum
Flour infestation, 69, 179, 191, 220, 261, 263, 266
“Flowering,” or Palm, Sunday, 25
Fly weevil (U.S.A.), 188
Font (leaden) at Llancaut, 20; at Tidenham, Pl. vii
Fonts (leaden), A. C. Fryer’s paper on, in Archæol. Journal, 20
Foot, Hippoboscal, Pls. xxiii., xxiv.
Forest fly, 65, 133, 134 (Fig.), 138, 139, 304
Forest flies, Indian, 224
Forest Hundreds, 33
Forest of Dean, 33
344Forest Peninsula, 33, 34
“Forestry,” text-book of, proposed, 227, 303
Forficula minor, Linn. (Earwig) 189 (Fig.)
“Formalin,” 220
Formica fuliginosa, 138, 139
Forshaw and Hawkins, Messrs., 266
Fowler (Canon) on Helophorus rugosus, 108, 267
Fream, Dr., references to, 203, 208, 279, 281, 282, 298, 305, 317
Frost and other leaders of the Chartist rising in Monmouth, 47-52
Fruitgrowers’ Convention, 206
Fucus serratus, 34
Fuller, Mr., 267; letters to, 257
G
Gadflies (Tabanidæ), 118, 137, 138, 304, 306
Gamma or silver moth, 178 (Fig.)
Gardener, an old, on Miss Ormerod’s work, 75
“Gardeners’ Chronicle,” 54, 55, 276
“Gardeners’ Friends and Foes,” series of diagrams, 88
Garton course of lectures, Edinburgh University, 118, 208
Garton, John, 298, 303
Gas lime as a top dressing, 195
Gastropacha quercifolia, Linn., 158
Gastrophilus equi, Fab., 117 (Fig.), 118, 305
Gawsworth, Cheshire, 12
Generosity, Dr. Lipscomb on Miss Ormerod’s, 94
Geophilus longicornis, Centipede, 235 (Fig.)
George, A. W., letter to, 174
Gibbs, Sir Brandreth, 76
Gilbert, Sir Henry and Lady, 298
Gnat midge, see Cecidomyia leguminicola
Goat moth, see Cossus ligniperda
Golynrode, 10
Goodall on Tabanidæ, 138
Gooseberry red spider, see Bryobia prætiosa
Gout fly, see Chlorops tæniopus
Grain beetles, see Calandra (Sitophilus) granaria
345Granary weevil, see Calandra granaria
Grant, Sir Ludovic, 96, 291, 303
Grease-banding, 207, 277
Grease-proof paper, 277
Great ash-bark beetle, 172 (Fig.)
Great midge, “red maggot of,” 137
Great ox gad fly, 135, 136
Great tortoiseshell butterfly, see Vanessa polychloros
Grimshaw, Percy H., 108; letters from, 149, 151
Grimthorpe, Lord, letter from, 297, 298, 308
Grouse fly, see Ornithomyia
“Guide to the Methods of Insect Life,” Miss Ormerod’s, 81, 85
Gulls, see Larus ridibundus and L. canus
H
Hacking, 10
Hæmatobia connicola, 213
Hæmatopota pluvialis, 136
“Hair-worms,” 225
“Handbook of Orchard Fruits,” Miss Ormerod’s, 303
Hargreaves, Col. John, 8
Harker, Professor Allen, references to, 79, 80, 201, 277, 278, 279, 281
Harpalus ruficornis, Bat beetle, 223 (Fig.)
Hartwell, Miss, Miss Ormerod’s private secretary, 88, 280, 289, 291
Heart-and-dart moth, see Agrotis exclamationis
Heather “frosted,” 149
Helophorus rugosus, 108
Henry VI. Coronation, 58, Pl. xviii
Hessian fly, 74, 129, 131, 132, 142, 143, 147, 148, 182, see Cecidomyia destructor; Miss Ormerod on, 86
Heterodera schachtii, 186; H. radicicola, Müller, 213 (Fig.)
Hibernation of insects, 226
“Hill-grub,” the, 104, 105 (Fig.)
Hippobosca equina, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 140, 265 (foot of fly, Pls. xxiii., xxiv.); H. maculata, 139
Hippoboscid on a lamb, 264
Hooker, Sir Joseph and Lady, 73, 74
Hoopoe, the, 139
Hop aphis, 206
Hope Professorship of Zoology at Oxford, 215
346Hops, nettle-headed, 237
Hornet, capture of, 92
“Hornet Clearwing,” Trochilium (= Sesia) bembeciforme, 103
Horse bot fly, Gastrophilus equi, Fab., 117 (Fig.), 118, 305
Horses’ illness after eating locust-infested lucerne, 228, 229
Horticultural Society (Royal), collection of injurious insects, 55
Howard, Dr. L. O., letters to and from, 184-194, 295, 297
Hulgreve Hall, 58
Hunt, the artist, 16
Huntspill, Somerset, 10
Huxley, Professor, 78; letters from, 85, 88
Hybernia defoliaria, 146
Hydrophobia, strange treatment for, 45
Hylesinus crenatus (large ash-bark beetle), 172 (Fig.), 173, 302; tunnels, 173 (Fig.)
Hylesinus fraxini, ash-bark beetle, 171, 174; tunnels, 171 (Fig.)
Hylurgus piniperda, pine beetle, 263
Hymenoptera, 174
Hypodermabovis and H. diana, 150; H. lineata, 116; H. or œstrus experiments, 183
I
Icerya purchasi, 79
Ichthyosaurus, 41
Index to Reports, 64, 191
“Indian Agriculture,” Wallace’s, 275
Inscription on Llancaut font, 22
“Insect Life,” 201, 267
Insect, Professor Westwood’s definition of, 84
“Insects Injurious to Forest Trees,” 302; “to Orchard and Bush Fruit,” 274; “to Stored Grain,” 191
Isleworth, 73; meteorology, 80
J
Jablonowski, Prof. Jos., on Phytoptus ribis, 156; letters to, 156
Jacobite officers, 11
Janson’s reports, Mr. Oliver E., 71, 72, 200, 283; letters to, 259-271
347Jenkins, Mr. H. M., Secretary R.A.S.E., 76
Johnson, Thomas, survivors of the children of, 11
Julus guttatus (= pulchellus), Leach; J. londinensis; J. terrestris, 143 (Fig.)
Juncus articulatus, the flowering heads of, or “spret,” 104
K
Ked or Kade, see Melophagus ovinus
Kerosene as an insecticide, 120, 181, 220
Kew Gardens, 73, 86
King and Queen, 122
King George and King James, toasts to, 11
Kingston Park, old name of Sedbury Park, 7
Knox, John, quotation from, 110
L
Labia minor, Leach, 189 (Fig.)
Lady-bird, Australian, 334
Lady-bird, see Coccinella
Læmophlœus ferrugineus, 263
Lamarckism, 335
Lamellicornes, beetle grubs of the, 277
Languages, Miss Ormerod’s knowledge of, 78
Lappet Moth, see Gastropacha quercifolia, Linn.
Larus ridibundus and L. canus, 105
Latham, Diana, on Sedbury, 14-19
Latham, John, M.D., 12, Pl. iv, 57
Latham, Peter Mere, 13, 57
Lathyrus (White), 221
“Leaden Fonts,” 20; Alfred C. Fryer on, 20
“Leafage caterpillars,” 146
Lecanium ribis, Fitch, 214
Lecture at Institute of Agriculture, South Kensington, Miss Ormerod’s, 84; at London Farmers’ Club, 102
Lecturer, Miss Ormerod as a, on Economic Entomology, at Royal College, Cirencester, 83
Lectures, ten, by Miss Ormerod, on “Orders of Insects,” 85
Lee-chee (lichi) orchards, 308
348Legal experiences, samples of Miss Ormerod’s, 69
Lepidoptera, American lists of, 181
Lesser earwig, Forficula minor, 189 (Fig.), 261
Lesson book for village schools, 207
Letter or letters from William Bailey, 102; Dr. Ritzema Bos, 296; Dr. Fream, 298; Lord Grimthorpe, 296; Sir Joseph Hooker, 87; L. O. Howard, 295, 297; T. H. Huxley, 85; J. A. Lintner, 81-82; Dr. R. S. MacDougall, 295; Sir William Muir, 301; Rev. Prof. Taylor, 310; Professor Wallace, 287-293; J. O. Westwood, 81
Letter or letters to William Bailey, 109-127; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, 227-231; Dr. Ritzema Bos, 232-237; Messrs. Coleman, 177-178; E. T. Connold, 175-177; Colonel Coussmaker, 99-104; Dr. J. Fletcher, 195-227; Claude Fuller, 257; A. W. George, 174; D. D. Gibb, 128-148; P. H. Grimshaw, 149-151; L. O. Howard, 184-194; C. P. Lounsbury, 252-257; Rev. John Martin, 169-174; J. C. Medd, 271-274; Dr. A. Nalepa, 247-252; Dr. E. Reuter, 244-247; Dr. W. M. Schöyen, 237-243; Robert Service, 106-8; W. B. Tegetmeier, 159-168; Professor Wallace, 275-325; C. D. Wise, 151-159
Letters, destruction of, 97
Leucania unipunctata, 185
Lias, frontage of, 40, 41
“Licked” beef, 116
Limnæa truncatula, 144
Limnephilus flavicornis, 152
Lindeman, Dr., 197, 209, 212, 263
Lintner, Dr., 207; letters from, 81, 82
Lipoptera cervi, Von Siebold and Loew, 140 (Fig.), 141 (Fig.), 180, 259, 265
Lipoptera or Lipoptena, confusion between, 140
Lipscomb, Dr. Eustace, 194, 290, 293, 294, 322, 324; on benefits of Miss Ormerod’s work, 75
Lithobius forficatus, “thirty-foot,” 235
349Little, Professor Herbert, 76, 110, 279
Llancaut Church, 21, Pl. viii
LL.D. of Edinburgh University, 95, 193, 287, 289; letters on, 294-297
Loch Dungeon, 104
Locust, capture of a strange, 53
Locust, South American migratory, see Schistocerca paranensis (Fig.)
Locusts, 144, 214, 218, 229
London, annual visit to, 16
London Farmers’ Club, lectures, 102, 299; request, 110; resolution, 300
London-purple, 183, 205
“Loopers,” 121, 146
Lords of Committee of Education invite Miss Ormerod to advise them, 87
Loudon’s “Arboretum,” 103
Lounsbury, C. P., 118, 187; letters to and from, 193, 252
Loyalty, Miss Ormerod’s, 94
“Lyde, the,” 35
Lyell, Sir Charles, on the Aust “Bone Bed,” 40
M
“Mabie Moss,” nom de plume of R. Service, 104, 106
MacDougall, Dr., 227, 291, 295, 302, 303; as a colleague, 302, 303, 307, 317, 322, 323
Magpie moth, Currant and gooseberry, see Abraxas grossulariata
Mail coach, Pls. xii., xiv.
Mails, the Newport, 50
Man, Dr. de, 79
Mangold attacked by Atomaria linearis, 230
“Manual of Injurious Insects,” Miss Ormerod’s, 65, 276, 300
Martin, Rev. John, letters to, 169-174
Mayer, Rev. Peter, 12
McEwan Hall, the, 292
Meade, Mr., of Bradford, 107, 205
Medals and Miss Ormerod’s other public distinctions, 95; key to, 98, Pl. xxii
Medd, Mr., 259; letters to, 271-274; letter to on the Warble question, 116
Mediterranean flour moth, see Ephestia kuhniella
350Melolontha vulgaris, cockchafer
209, 233 (Fig.)
Melophagus ovinus, Linn., 141 (Fig.)
Mermis, 186; albicans, 106
Merodon narcissi, Fab., 157, 158
Meromyza, 276
Meteorological observations at Isleworth, 80; station, Pl. xx
Miana, 186
Micrococcus bombycis, 106
Midge, great, 137
Mik, Professor, on Tabanidæ, 20, 138; on Deer Forest fly, 261; decease of, 271
Mill Moth, see Ephestia kuhniella
Millepede, 143 (Fig.)
Mite, see Phytoptus
Modelling in plaster of Paris, Miss Ormerod’s taste for, 95
Moles at strawberry roots, 153
Morris, Little and Son’s emulsion, 121
Mormonia nigromaculata, 152 (Fig.)
Mosley’s models and figures of insects, 279
Mottled Umber moth, see Hybernia defoliaria
Muir, Sir William, 284, 285, 298; letter from, 301
Murray, Mr. Andrew, secretary, Royal Horticultural Society, 75
Murray, Mr. John, xx, 315, 319, 325
Murtfeldt, Miss, 256
Music, Miss Ormerod’s knowledge of, 95
Mustard beetle, see Phædon betulæ
N
Nalepa, Dr., letters to, 247; on the Phytoptidæ, 155, 218; publications of, 176
Narcissus fly, 157
“Nature Knowledge,” 306
“Nature Study,” Mr. Medd’s, 259
Needlework, Miss Ormerod’s skill in, 95
Newman, Mr. T. P., 309, 325
Newstead, Mr. Robert, 64, 68, 84, 310
Niptus hololeucus, 262
Nixon, Mr., 145
Norman’s microscopic slides, Mr., 264, 265, 267
Nostril fly, of sheep, 304
351O
Oak, “Ap Adam,” and “Hedgehog,” Pl. xxi, 93
Oak-leaf roller moth, Tortrix viridana, 145
Oak-leaf seaweed (Delesseria), 39
Oak-trees injured by caterpillars, 222
Observations, Miss Ormerod’s arrangement of, 60, 61
Œstridæ, 118, 283
œstrus ovis, 76 (Fig.)
“Offa’s Dyke,” 18
Oilcakes and granary weevil, 262
Oligotrophus alopecuri, 244
Ontario Entomological Society, 73
“Orchard and bush fruits, Handbook of insects injurious to,” Miss Ormerod’s, 229
Orchard growers, experimental committee of, 183
Ormerod, Arthur, 57; the M.D., 291
Ormerod, Charlotte Anne, 8
Ormerod, E. L., M.D., author of “British Social Wasps,” 9, 57, 93
Ormerod, Eleanor Anne, birth, childhood, and education, 1-6; fondness for animals, 7; religious experiences, 27; biographical sketch, 73-97; courage, 92-93; kindness to servants, 94; medals, 97; death, 325; retirement, 328; portraits, frontispiece, Pls. xx., xxix.
Ormerod, George, D.C.L., LL.D., author of “History of the County Palatine and City of Chester,” 8, 11, 18, 19, 23, 28, 53, 56, 57, Pls. ii., iii., xxx.
Ormerod, Mrs. George, 3, Pl. iii
Ormerod, Georgiana, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 18, 30, 73, Pl. xxvii
Ormerod, Rev. G. T. B., 57
Ormerod, Henry Mere, 34, 58
Ormerod, John Arderne, 13, 57
Ormerod, Laurence, 8
Ormerod, Oliver, 9
Ormerod, Thomas Johnson, 57
Ormerod, Wareing, 58
Ormerod, William, 57
Ormerod demesne and mansion, 8, Pl. xxviii
Ormerod family, descent from Edward I., 13; 352branches of, 8-9; dispersal of, 56
Ornithomyia avicularia, Linn. (Grouse fly), 264, 265 (Fig.)
Osmia (Mason bee), 174
Ostrich parasite, 196
“Our Programme” leaflet, 272
Owen, Professor Richard, report on an Ichthyosaurus, 41
Oxford, Port Fellowship, 13, 57; Tractarian Movement, 28
P
Padina Pavonea, 39
Palm Sunday or “Flowering Sunday,” 25
“Papist,” “The picture of a,” 10
Paraffin, 181
Parasites of Lepidoptera, 107, 108
Parasites of silkworm, 106
“Parentalia,” Dr. George Ormerod’s, 9, 13
“Paris-green,” 153, 183, 201; as an insecticide, 203, 204, 205, 206; pamphlets on, 207, 208
Passer domesticus, 159, 160 (Fig.), 188
Passer montanus, 162 ( Fig.)
Pea-weevil, see Sitones
Peacock seaweed (Padina pavonea), 39
Pension proposed for Miss Ormerod, 322
Phædon betulæ, 215 (Fig.)
Philips, Sir Thomas, mayor of Newport, 50
Photographs of Miss Ormerod, 227, 300, 302
Phylloxera, 155, 210
Phytoptidæ, 250
Phytoptus galls, 177
Phytoptus pyri, 249 (Fig.)
Phytoptus ribis, 153, 156, 251 (Fig.)
Pillischer’s preparations, 261
Pine beetle attack, 263, 264, 285
Piophila casei, Linn., 125 (Fig.), 256, 265
Plagiarism, prevention of, 62
Plan of work, Miss Ormerod’s, 78, 90
Plasmodiophora brassicæ, 213
Plum-wood, Shot-borers from, 200
Plusia gamma, Linn., 178 (Fig.)
Plutella cruciferarum, 130, 210, 211 (Fig.)
Polydesmus complanatus, 143 (Fig.)
353Port Fellowship, Brasenose College, 13, 57
“Post-horn” beetle attack, 224
Potter, Professor M. C., 144
“Proceedings of the Convention of Fruit Growers,” 206
Ptinus, 263
Pupation of butterflies, 334
“Puritan,” “The picture of a,” 10
Puss moth, see Dicranura vinula
Putcher for catching salmon, 36, 327, 328
“Putts” or “putchers,” 36 (Fig.)
Pyrethrum, 216
Q
“Quasi Cursores,” Hole’s, 308, 311
R
Rabies, an instance of, 92
Railway travelling, 46
Rassam, Mr. Hormuzd, 205
Red-currant mite, 157 see Phytoptus
Redenhall-cum-Harleston, 57
“Red spider,” 145, 221 (Fig.), 300
Redwater “tick,” 193
Reports (annual), plan of preparations, 78; discontinued, 66
Retinia buoliana, “Post-Horn,” 224
Reuter, Dr., letters to, 244
Ribes nigrum, 156
Ribes rubrum, 157
Rice weevil, see Calandra oryzæ
Riley, Professor, 78, 80; letters to, 179-184; resignation of, 221, 223; sketch of, 332, app.
Ritzema Bos, see Bos
Roberts, Margaret, 17
Roman coins found near the Severn Cliffs, 174; military station, 7; pottery, 8, 174; Pl xi.
Rothamsted, 203, 217, 298
Roundell, Charles, the “Rural Reader,” 273
Rural Economy, Sibthorpian Professor of, at Oxford, 225
“Ruricola,” nom de plume of J. Curtis, 184
Rust-red flour beetle, see Tribolium ferrugineum
S
Saddle fly, Cecidomyia (Diplosis) equestris, 137 (Fig.)
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 57
354Salix caprea, 103
Salmon fishing on the Severn, 36
Samian cup, 175
San José scale, see Aspidiotus perniciosus
Sap-wood beetle, see Scolytus pruni
Saurian remains, 41, Pl. xi
Scale insects, 242, 257
Scarabæid beetles (rare), 222
Schaŭmerde, a sugar by-product, 236
“Scheele’s-green,” 201
Schistocerca paranensis, 229 (Fig.)
Schizoneura lanigera, Hausm, American blight, 142, 143, 144 (Fig.)
Schools, coloured diagrams for elementary, 99; see Diagrams
Schöyen, Dr., letters to, 237-239; notes on wasps from, 218
Science and Art Department, invited to help, 87; diagrams for, 88; official plagiarism, 88
Scolytus destructor, Oliv., 169, 170 (Fig.); S. pruni, Ratz., 270, 271 (Fig.)
Seaweeds, 39
Sedbury Park, 7, 14-19; reminiscences of, 15; routine of life at, 17, Pl. i
Servants, Miss Ormerod’s kindly treatment of, 94
Service, Mr. Robert, letter to, 99; notes by, 104, 105
Sesia bembeciformis, see Trochilium
Seth, Professor, letter from, 303
Severn and Wye, the, 33, Pl. ix
Severn, cliffs, Pl. x; colour of, 35, 41; shipping of, 36
“Shag” or “Chog,” 197
Sheep spider fly, or “ked,” 141 (Fig.); nostril fly, 304, 305; see Melophagus
“Sheep Scab,” paper on, 299, 306
Shell-(snail)-slug, 191 (Fig.), 192
Shells, Miss Georgiana Ormerod’s love for, 3
Shot-borer, see Xyleborus dispar
Signoret’s, Dr., opinion, 79
Silk, moths injuring, 219
Silpha opaca, Linn., 142 (Fig.)
Silphidæ, 219
“Silver-top” wheat, 197
Simpson, Mr. Wm., letter from, 72
Sirex juvencus, 81; S. gigas, 81
355Sitones (pea-weevil), 226
Sitophilus granarius, 262; S. oryzæ, 262
Sitotroga (Gelechia) cerealella, 188
“Slime” fungus, 213
Smirke, Sir Robert, 7
Smith and Co.’s flour, Messrs., 266
Smith, John B., 257
Smith, Sir Robert Murdoch, reference to, 284
Snail-slug, 191 (Fig.), 192
Snellen, Mr., on “Great” and “Small” tortoiseshell butterflies, 131
Sparrow, Hedge, 162
Sparrow, House, Passer domesticus, 160-168, 160 (Fig.)
Sparrow leaflet, 163, 166, 167, 225; extract from, 164
“Sparrow, Spare the,” 165
“Sparrow, The House,” Tegetmeier’s, 167, 168
Sparrow, Tree, Passer montanus, 162 (Fig.)
Sparrows, repeal of laws in America protecting, 161
“Spider” fly, 304
“Spinach moth,” 231
“Splint,” a sap-wood beetle, Scolytus pruni, 271 (Fig.)
Sprayers, 208
Spret, Juncus articulatus, 104
St. Alban’s Show, Prince and Princess of Wales at, 123; exhibit for, 123
Stebbing, E. P., 307
Stein, or Hartman quoted by Stein, 260
Stem eel-worms, 209 (Fig.)
Steven lecturer, on Agricultural Entomology in Edinburgh University, 282, see Fream, Dr.
Stewart’s, Prince Charles, march to Manchester, 10
St. Petersburg International Exhibition, 19
Stock flies, 304, 307
Strathconan Deer Forest flies, 260, 261
Strawberries, moles at, 153; eel-worms at, 204; beetles at, 223
Strigul, ancient name of Chepstow, 8
“Strigulensia,” George Ormerod’s, 7, 21
356Subpœna, a, 69
Sufferings, political, of “Tyldesley” in 1745, 10
T
Tabanidæ, 138, 141, 145, 150
Tabanus autumnalis, 136; bovinus, Linn., 135 (Fig.), 136
Tachina fly, 106; larvæ, 186
Taschenberg’s, Dr., “Die Praktische Insektenkunde,” 277
Taylor, Dr., 284; letter from, 310
Tecla, St., chapel of, 33
Tegetmeier, Mr., letters to, 159-168
Tenebrioides mauritanicus, 70
Teriacus, Tecla, or Treacle, Saint, 33
Testacella haliotidea, Draparnaud, shell-slug, 191 (Fig.), 192
Texas fever, 193, 257
Thackeray, death of Mrs., 6
“Thrips,” 185, 197
Thursby, John Ormerod Scarlett, 9
Thursby, Rev. William, 9
Thursby, Sir John Hardy, 9
Thysanoptera, 185
Ticks causing “redwater,” 193, 257
Tidenham church, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, Pl. vii
Timberman beetle, 224 (Fig.)
Time-table, mail coach, 44
Tintern Abbey, Pl. v
Tipula, daddy longlegs or crane fly, 64, 284
Toasts of the rival kings, 11
Toddington Experimental Committee, 201, 203, 204, 207, 248, 277, 333
Tomato root-knot eel-worm, 213 (Fig.), 214
Torquay, 73
Torrington House, St. Albans, 19, 73, Pl. xix; an “at home” at, 86
Tortoiseshell butterflies, 129, 131
Tortrix viridana, 145 (Fig.), 146
Townhead Farm, Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, 104
Transportation of wingless females by winged males, 183
Travelling in olden times, 43-46
Treacle, or Tryacle, Island, 33
Tribolium ferrugineum, Fab., 70, 72, 266 (Fig.)
357Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada, destruction of by fire, 227
Triton cristatus, Miss Ormerod’s paper on, 59
Trochilium bembeciforme, 103
Trogosita mauritanica, 70, 72
Trout crammed with “hill-grub,” 105
“Tulip root,” 65, 209 (Fig.)
Turnip caterpillars, 101; fly or flea beetle, 76; mud beetle (Helophorus rugosus), 108; saw fly, 211
Tyldesley, 1, 7, 10
Tylenchus devastatrix, 79, 190, 209 (Fig.); attacking clover, 226
V
Vanessa polychloros, Great Tortoiseshell butterfly, 129 (Fig.), 130, 186
“Venus” shells, 40
Verney, Sir Harry, 121
Verrall’s List of British Diptera, 157
Vere Street Chapel, London, preachers at, 26, 27
Voelcker, Dr. A., on gas lime, 195
Voles, report on, 104
W
Wales, Prince and Princess of, 123, 124
Wallace, Professor, an ally and friend, 227; letters to, 275-325
Wallace, Dr. Quintin, M.A., death of, 281
Warble fly, see Hypoderma bovis
Ward, Mr., 125
Warington, Professor, Sibthorpian lecturer, 225, 298
Wasps, 17, 218, 220, 273
“Wasps, British Social,” by Dr. E. L. Ormerod, 93
Wasp’s nest, 241 (Fig.)
Watercresses attacked by Caddis worms, 151, 282
Waterloo, news of battle of, 31
Waterloo Station, accident at, 77
“Water moth,” see Mormonia nigromaculata
Water-snails, 144
Weed seed for adulterating imports, 276
Weevil, see Bruchus, injuries to bean and pea seed, 143
Weevils in flour, 72, 262
358Westminster, Mr. Bailey’s correspondence with the Duke of, 111
West, Newman & Co., Messrs., 277, 302
Westwood, Professor, 78, 80, 205, 279, 280; letter from, 81
Whalley, Whitaker’s history of, 8
Whateley, Archbishop, 27
Wheat cleaning, 275; “silver-top” or “white eared,” 197; wheat with Hessian fly maggot, 131 (Fig.)
Whipple’s experiment with larvæ, 211
White ants destroying cocoa trees, 268
Whitehead, Mr. Charles, 76
Wild tribes of India, 309
William IV., 1
William of Worcester quoted, 34
Willow weevil, 267
Winter moth, 146 (Fig.), traps, 183; see Cheimatobia
Wire worm, 206
Wise, letters to Mr., 151, 152
Woburn report on mite-galls, 157; Experimental Fruit Grounds, 226
Wood leopard moth (Zeuzera æsculi), 102 (Fig.)
Woolastone, 22
Woolly aphis, 144
Work, plan of Miss Ormerod’s, 78
Writing, Miss Ormerod’s early love for, 2; specimen of, 89
Wye, free railway passage over, 208; map of lower valley, Pl. ix; railway bridge on, Pl. xxvi
X
Xyleborus dispar, Fab., 182, 198, 199 (Fig.), 331 (App. D)
Xyleborus pyri, 198
Xyleborus saxeseni, 188, 263
Y
Yeats, Dr. John, on saurian remains, 41
Z
Zeuzera æsculi, Linn., 102 (Fig.)
Zimmermann, A., trials with “formalin,” 220
Zoology, Dr. Claus’ text-book of, 276
Zoology, Hope Professorship of, at Oxford, 280
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