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Footnote 74:
See Appendix E.
Footnote 75:
This reference is to the destruction by fire of the main building of Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada, of which Mr. Bethune was Head Master for a period of 29 years ending 1899.
Footnote 76:
Containing Miss Ormerod’s Meteorological Observations.
Footnote 77:
The death of her sister Georgiana.
Footnote 78:
State Entomologist of New York.
Footnote 79:
Mrs. Bethune was killed in a carriage accident in July, 1898.
Footnote 80:
“Schaŭmerde,” is a product of the fabrication of sugar, which contains the mineral parts, the salts, of the sugar beet. Therefore it is good for manuring this crop. (J. R. B.)
Footnote 81:
This species described by me later under the name _Oligotrophus alopecuri_, n. sp. (Zwei neue Cecidomyinen, Acta Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fennica xi., No. 8, 1895, p. 3-9, Taf. i, Fig. 1-9) (E.R.).
Footnote 82:
The larvæ of this species infested badly the apple fruits in the whole of Finland in the summer of 1898. (Cfr. “Ent. Rec.,” xi., No. 2, 1899, pp. 37-39, and “Can. Ent.,” xxxi., 1899, pp. 12-14).—E. R.
Footnote 83:
Miss Ormerod had recommended Mr. Fuller for the appointment he secured in Natal.
Footnote 84:
This note refers to a fire in Mr. Lounsbury’s department and to the investigation of red water fever in cattle produced by ticks.
Footnote 85:
With one possible exception the most destructive beetle of British forestry.
Footnote 86:
A favourite West Country expression of Miss Ormerod.
Footnote 87:
The caterpillars of the Goat moth feed in poplar, willow, elm, oak, lime, and beech, as well as in apple, pear, walnut, and other trees. (E. A. O.)
Footnote 88:
The Agricultural Education Committee, 10, Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster, S.W., was formed in the autumn of 1899, with Sir W. Hart-Dyke, Bart., M.P., as Chairman, and the Rt. Hon. Henry Hobhouse, M.P., as Hon. Secretary. (J. C. M.)
Footnote 89:
One of the leaflets issued by the Agricultural Education Committee.
Footnote 90:
Another leaflet of the series issued by the Agricultural Education Committee, but one which Miss Ormerod did not appreciate.
Footnote 91:
The paper on “Wasps” was lent by Mr. Medd to Mr. Chas. Roundell who incorporated it in his unique little volume, the _Rural Reader_, Horace Marshall & Co. (ED.).
Footnote 92:
Issued by the Agricultural Education Committee.
Footnote 93:
_India in 1887._ Published by Oliver and Boyd.
Footnote 94:
Miss Ormerod did not latterly oppose Darwinianism, but we are not aware that she ever accepted it. (ED.).
Footnote 95:
See note ante p. 79.
Footnote 96:
Of Mosley’s Insect cases with a view to suiting the Agriculture Department, Edinburgh University.
Footnote 97:
Quintin MacAdam Wallace, M.A., a Graduate (1st Class Honours) in Medicine and Surgery of Edinburgh University.
Footnote 98:
Dr. Fream had been, as a result of the recommendation of Miss Ormerod, appointed Steven Lecturer on Agricultural Entomology in Edinburgh University.
Footnote 99:
After a full term of three years, by ordinance, an examiner is not immediately eligible for re-appointment.
Footnote 100:
“On the Production of New Breeds of Crop Plants by Multiple Cross-fertilization.”
Footnote 101:
A suggestion that Dr. MacDougall should collaborate with Miss Ormerod in bringing out the book.
Footnote 102:
Messrs. Knight, one or other, have been my artists for many years. I should like the printing to be, as usual, in the hands of Messrs. West, Newman & Co. Mr. T. P. Newman has superintended my printing for so many years. (E. A. O.)
Footnote 103:
Professor James Seth delivered the address to student graduates at the ceremonial at which Miss Ormerod received the LL.D.
Footnote 104:
One hundred copies of Miss Ormerod’s _Manual of Injurious Insects_, were distributed gratuitously to persons specially selected by us as likely to be interested in the subject matter and capable of spreading a knowledge of it (ED.).
Footnote 105:
Lecture at the London Farmers’ Club on Sheep Scab.
Footnote 106:
_Tessarotoma papillosa_, Dravy. (O. E. J.)
Footnote 107:
We were at the time actually at war with China, although nominally the united Powers of Europe were fighting the Boxers.
Footnote 108:
A digest of the Indian Famine Commission Reports down to October, 1898, read as the Inaugural Address on the opening of the course of “Garton Lectures” on Colonial and Indian Agriculture. Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.
Footnote 109:
A copy of _Quasi Cursores_, portraits of the high officials and professors of the University of Edinburgh and its Tercentenary Festival. Drawn and etched by William Hole, A.R.S.A. David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1884.
Footnote 110:
From the Governor of Lagos arranging a personal interview.
Footnote 111:
This reference was made to a cold draught experienced in church.
Footnote 112:
A letter written to defend the position of the Board of Agriculture for Ireland against an unwarranted attack of a Cork correspondent of the London “Times” (ED.).
Footnote 113:
The first examination paper set in connection with the “Garton” course of lectures (ED.).
Footnote 114:
A paper on “Agriculture in South Africa,” read before the Royal Colonial Institute on 12th of March, 1901.
Footnote 115:
A silver tea service of Indian work presented in recognition of a public service.
Footnote 116:
On this date a note of instructions was left to Miss Ormerod’s trustees to deliver to us the “Reminiscences” papers, &c. The end of the note is as follows:—
“And I request Professor Wallace, being a friend in whom I feel complete confidence, to accept the above, and use or not use them for the purpose precisely as in his good discretion he may think fit.”
Footnote 117:
See _Log Book of a Fisherman_, &c., by Frank Buckland, M.A., pp. 366, 367.
Footnote 118:
The substance of the foregoing statement was supplied by Dr. Bethune. The following (condensed) obituary notice by Professor A. S. Packard, of Brown University, and referred to by Miss Ormerod, appeared in “Science,” and subsequently in the “Canadian Entomologist.”
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