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Eleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and Correspondence
Eleanor Anne Ormerod and Robert Wallace
She turned a childhood love of insects into a science that saved crops. Eleanor Ormerod's autobiography and letters tell of a Victorian woman's rise to become a leading economic entomologist, tracing her family, her fields, and her lifelong war on the pests of the farm. Warm and remarkable. Meet the woman who made bug study pay.
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64 chapters
- 1ELEANOR ORMEROD, LL.D., ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGIST: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CORRESPONDENCE
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
- 5LIST OF FULL-PAGE PLATES
- 6CHAPTER I BIRTH, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION
- 7CHAPTER II PARENTAGE
- 8CHAPTER III REMINISCENCES OF SEDBURY BY MISS DIANA LATHAM[10]
- 9CHAPTER IV CHURCH AND PARISH
- 10CHAPTER V SEVERN AND WYE
- 11CHAPTER VI TRAVELLING BY COACH, FERRY, AND RAILWAY
- 12CHAPTER VII CHARTIST RISING IN MONMOUTHSHIRE IN 1839
- 13CHAPTER VIII BEGINNING THE STUDY OF ENTOMOLOGY, COLLECTIONS OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, AND FAMILY DISPERSAL.
- 14CHAPTER IX COMMENCEMENT AND PROGRESS OF ANNUAL REPORTS OF OBSERVATIONS OF INJURIOUS INSECTS
- 15CHAPTER X SAMPLES OF LEGAL EXPERIENCES
- 16CHAPTER XI BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THE EDITOR
- 17CHAPTER XII BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY THE EDITOR (continued)
- 18CHAPTER XIII LETTERS TO COLONEL COUSSMAKER AND MR. ROBERT SERVICE
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