Scottish Liberal Club, Edinburgh, Saturday.
A telegram received in the morning made it impossible for me to get to the McEwan Hall in time for my seat on the platform. Among the audience, however, I had an excellent opportunity of getting acquainted with “popular” opinion, and I only wished you could have heard all the kind things that were said about you. Somebody has said, “Beware when all men (and all women) speak well of you.” Really I know no one so exposed to this temptation (if temptation it be) as yourself. The honouring of our various distinguished men naturally appeals most strongly to different groups, but there is in addition about this latest honour to yourself something which has touched the general imagination.
May you be long spared to wear the honour worthily.
I hope that on your return you will find yourself none the worse for your plucky journey north and all the attendant fatigue.
R. Stewart Macdougall.
Dr. Ritzema Bos wrote:—
Amsterdam, March 16, 1900.
Dear Miss Ormerod,—I was very much enjoyed to read in your kind letter of 12th March that the Senatus of the Edinburgh University will confer on you the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, as an acknowledgment of the great merits you have for the advancement of Economic Entomology. I am glad to hear that the important work you have done since so long years for Science and for Agriculture will be recompensed in this way. I hope that you may remain still for many years, what you have been already for so long time, the first Economic Entomologist of your country and one of the most famous Economic Entomologists of the world. My wife asks me to offer also her kind congratulations to you. December 19, 1899, it was twenty-five years since I received the Degree of Doctor of Natural Philosophy. On this day a deputation of representatives of our Dutch Agriculture and Horticulture came to me and offered me a statue of bronze—the genius of Science, with the subscription, “Ad lumen.” It was presented to me in the name of many agriculturists and horticulturists in Holland and in Dutch India. The General Director of Agriculture came also to me, and told me that H.M. our Queen offered me the grade of Knight of the Dutch Lion (Ridder in de Orde von den Nederlandsche Leeuwen). It was a beautiful day for us indeed. With many kind regards, believe me, yours very truly,
Ritzema Bos.
Lord Grimthorpe wrote:—