222 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Canadian volunteer force (now the Royal Scots of Canada), and 

 rose from Ensign to Major in 1885, retiring with that rank in 

 1891. He was a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital; 

 Treasurer and Vice-President of the Graduates' Society of McGill 

 University; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the 

 Royal Colonial Institute; one of the organizers of the Imperial 

 Federation League in Canada and a member of the deputation which 

 waited upon Lord Salisbury's administration in 1886, asking that 

 an Imperial Conference representing the whole British Empire 

 should be summoned. The Conference was held during the follow- 

 ing year. He was also a Director of the British and Colonial Press 

 Service. Though little interested in local politics he was an ardent 

 Imperialist and considered that the perpetual unity of the Empire 

 far surpassed in importance all other political questions; he advo- 

 cated Imperial preferential trade and believed that Canada should 

 bear its share of the burden of Imperial defence. 



To turn to a different aspect of his life, the one in which our 

 readers are more interested — we learn that when only eight years 

 of age he began to observe insects and their ways, and when a boy 

 of twelve commenced to form a collection of Lepidoptera, which 

 has now become one of the finest and most extensive in Canada. 

 On Jan. 5th, 1875, Mr. Lyman became a member of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Ontario by joining the Montreal Branch. At 

 the following meeting he exhibited a case of butterflies from 

 Illinois, following a custom which has always been characteristic of 

 the Montreal meetings. These exhibits usually led to discussions 

 in which Mr. Lyman took an active part and spared no pains in 

 arriving at correct conclusions, studying the original descriptions 

 and at times taking the specimens to the United States or the 

 British Museum for final determination. He would never jump at 

 conclusions but, sparing no time or trouble, would not rest satis- 

 fied till certainty was assured. 



His first paper was presented at the meeting on Oct. 5th, 

 1875, being a description of the larva and pupa of Grapta inter- 

 rogationis; this was followed a few months later by a list of Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera taken at Portland, Maine (published in the Can. Ent., 

 XII, pp. 7-9). For nearly ten years he spent his annual summer 

 holiday on the Atlantic Coast, where he added largely to his col- 



