Collected Works on Injurious Insects

Description:

A collection of E.A. Ormerod's works including the following:

(1) Reports On Injurious Insects - 22 (of 24) Annual Reports for years 1877-1887; 1888-1893; 1894-1899, plus General Index 1877-1898, (1878-1900), (lacks only the Reports for 1878 and 1900); Two Reports on The Hessian Fly bound with the first volume: 'The Hessian Fly Cecidomyia destructor in Great Britain in 1887 being mainly Reports of British Observations', pp. 56 (1887); 'The Hessian Fly Cecidomyia destructor in Great Britain: being Observations and Illustrations from Life', pp. 24 (1886). This is an almost complete set of Reports On Injurious Insects. Unusually for the time, Ormerod used a national network of enthusiastic contributors who sent her detailed observations on pests and meteorological records, which she compiled as reports. Today her project is cited as a pioneering example of citizen science.

(2) A Manual of Injurious Insects, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy for their Attacks to Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, [1881]. 1st ed., sm. 8vo, xxxvii, 323.

(3) A Manual of Injurious Insects with Methods of Prevention and Remedy for their Attacks to Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1890). 2nd ed., 8vo, xiv, 410.

(4) Guide to Methods of Insect Life; and Prevention and Remedy of Insect Ravage (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1884). 1st ed., sm. 8vo, viii, 167.

(5) A Text-Book of Agricultural Entomology; being A Guide to the Methods of Insect Life and means of Prevention of Insect Ravage (London: Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1892). 2nd ed., sm. 8vo, xvi, 238.

(6) Notes and Descriptions of a Few Injurious Farm & Fruit Insects of South Africa (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1889). 1st ed., sm. 8vo, viii, 116.

(7) Handbook of Insects Injurious to Orchard and Bush Fruits with Means of Prevention and Remedy (London: Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1898). 1st ed., x, 286.

(8) Eleanor Ormerod, LL.D. Economic Entomologist. Autobiography and Correspondence (Ed. By R. Wallace. London: John Murray, 1904). 1st ed., xx, 348.

[Cat. Lib. BM(NH) Vol. III, p. 1477]

Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901) is considered to be one of the founders of the field of economic entomology in Britain. She was a fellow of the Entomological Society of London (1878), and was the first woman to be elected fellow of the Meteorological Society (1878). She was honorary consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England (1882), Britain’s de facto government entomologist, special lecturer on economic entomology at the Royal Agricultural College (Cirencester) and South Kensington's Institute of Agriculture (London). In 1889–90, she successfully introduced agricultural entomology as a voluntary subject for the senior examination of the RASE, and as a compulsory examination subject at the Royal Agricultural College, and from 1896 to 1899 she acted as an examiner in agricultural entomology for the University of Edinburgh. Through lectures, textbooks, and examinations, Eleanor Ormerod played a pivotal role in the institutionalization of economic entomology. The Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France awarded her a silver medal in 1899, and the Royal Horticultural Society awarded her a gold medal the following year. In 1900 she received her greatest honour, when she became the first woman to receive of an honorary LLD degree from the University of Edinburgh. (ODNB).

Condition

10 vols, 8vo, various cloth bindings; some wear, some spotting; several joints to the 3-vol. set of Reports (1) with hinges split, one board detached; 'Injurious Farm & Fruit Insects of South Africa', inscribed 'Dr John Morison from the writer, June 8, 1889'.