ORMEROD, Eleanor Anne.

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The Cobham Journals. Abstracts and Summaries of Meteorological and Phenological Observations Made by Miss Caroline Molesworth, at Cobham Surrey, in the Years 1825 to 1850. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "The Royal Society of Edinburgh, with compliments from Miss. E. A. Ormerod, Dunster Lodge, W. Isleworth. June 9th 1880."Escaping the confines of a traditional education for women, Ormerod (1828-1901) began her scientific career in the 1850s, self-studying meteorology and entomology. In the 1870s, she moved with her sister to Dunster Lodge, Isleworth, "where they could be closer to London, and to Joseph D. Hooker, director of Kew Gardens, and his wife... Eleanor used her intimacy with the Hookers to continue her entomological investigations in the gardens at Kew. These were in addition to her daily recorded observations for the Meteorological Society, to which she was elected a fellow in 1878, the first woman to be so" (ODNB).Her interest in meteorology led her to the remarkable scientific research of Caroline Molesworth (1794-1872), who kept detailed records of solar and lunar observations, temperature readings, rainfall, and other weather patterns at her home near Esher. Further success in the 1880s and 1890s led to Ormerod becoming the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. Today, the university's cloud computing service is named after her.The old blue ink stamp of the Royal Societ

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