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The President : If there is no further discussion, that concludes the first 

 part of our programme, the reading of the reports of the Directors, As Mr. Winn, 

 our Vice-President is not here, 1 will call upon our ex-president. Dr. Bethune, to 

 take the Chair while I read my Presidential Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc, P.R.S.C, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa. 



In welcoming you to the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of our Society, it is my 

 sad duty first to call attention to the deaths, since our last meeting, of two of our 

 former Presidents, one of whom was at the same time one of the founders of the 

 Society, and both have placed us under a deep debt of gratitude by their devotion 

 to the welfare of the Society and to entomology in Canada. I refer, as you will all 

 know, to the deaths of Dr. William Saunders, 'C.M.Gr., LL.D., and to Mr. Henry 

 H. Lyman, M.A. Worthy tributes to these two men have been written by a more 

 competent hand than mine in the current volume of our journal,* but I should 

 like to add a few words of personal appreciation. 



*Henry Herbert Lyman, by C. J. S. Bethune, Can. Ent. Vol. 46, pp. 221-225. 1914. 

 Dr. William Saunders, by C. J. S. Bethune, Ibid pp. 333-336. 



Henry Herbert Lyman. 



The memories of the terrible disaster to the steamer " Empress of Ireland," 

 on the 29th of May last are still acute in the minds of many of us who lost friends 

 and knew the ship ; I came out to Canada on her in 1909, and recrossed two years 

 later. To me the feelings of horror were intensified by the fact that I had spent 

 some time with Mr. Lyman on the afternoon of the 27th, when as your Delegate, 

 he attended the meeting of the Royal Society in Montreal and read his report to 

 that Society. His high sense of duty which characterized all his actions was par- 

 ticularly exemplified at that meeting. The afternoon was hot, the time available 

 for receiving reports was very brief, and most of the delegates from Societies 

 presented their reports by title. In view of these circumstances and for personal 

 reasons, for he told me how unusually busy he was preparing for his departure to 

 Europe, I strongly suggested to him that he should hand in his report to be read 

 by title. But no, the report was read in the voice we all knew so well, and the 

 meeting was informed of the manner in which we celebrated our Jubilee meeting. 

 I believe the reading of that report was his last public act, and that I was the last 

 entomologist who performed the duty of an ear for him and conversed with him 

 by means of his scribbling pad; I cannot forget the happy banter of our con- 

 versation. He filled a unique place in our meetings, and in entomological meetings 

 which he so zealously attended in other countries, and we shall miss his kindly 

 presence and good-humoured impatience with those who, like myself, presented 

 papers at the meetings without having prepared manuscript which his increasing 

 deafness required as a substitute for the sound of the speaker's voice. At our 

 Jubilee meeting we welcomed his charming wife, and our hope that his constant 

 attendance at our meetings would by her assistance be assured will never be 

 realized. (See Plate, page 8.) 



