96 THE BEPOBT OF THE No. 36 



G. unijuga. Walker — " the Ouce Married," and C. hris&is, Edwards, I took 

 at Cowansville. 



That beautiful moth Catocala hianca, Henry Edwards, I found at rest on a 

 fence on the Heights of Abraham. 



Some, if not all of these insects may, I dare say, be found in the lowlands, 

 but all my captures of them were made in elevated regions. 



I have spoken of the beauty of some of the living creatures that frequent our 

 mountain districts. 1 will say in conclusion a few words on the lovely scenery 

 that those districts present. I do not think 1 fully realized this till one day when 

 driving from Waterloo to Magog (between which places a railway now passes) I 

 met with John A, Eraser, the artist.* He was lodging at a cottage by the way- 

 side, and was engaged in painting a view of Mount Orford and Orford Lake. He 

 had portrayed tlie mountain as it appears at early morning, with the glow of the 

 rising sun lighting up its higher projections, and contrasting finely with the deep 

 shadows of its wooded recesses ; while in the water below the charms both of colour- 

 ing and outline were reflected. 



But I think the most wonderful mountain view I ever witnessed in the 

 eastern townships was an evening scene. To understand it you must remember 

 that early in spring, before the buds open into leaf, the young twigs of the maples 

 are deep red. 



I was driving under the long western front of Gale Mountain, in East 

 Farnham. The slope was clothed with maples from head to foot. The sun was 

 setting in all its regal splendor over the low-lying French country; and its 

 crimson beams struck full upon the ascent. The effect was marvellous — it can 

 hardly, be imagined. The whole slope glowed and sparkled with the lustre and 

 tint of rubies. As I recall the scene the words in the Canticle — Benedicite, omnia 

 opera — rise spontaneously to my mind, and furnish a fitting close to my address. 

 " ye Mountains and Hills, bless ye the Lord, praise Him and magnify Him 

 forever." 



The President: I am sure I am voicing the feelings of all who are here 

 when I say that we could not have enjoyed this paper with anything like the same 

 degree of pleasure, had Dr. Fyles sent it to be read by someone else as an alternative 

 to coming and reading it himself in his ovm inimitable way. We are so pleased to 

 find from his paper -that his pen has lost none of its beautiful descriptive power, 

 and from the illustrations on the screen that his hand has lost none of its cunning. 

 We hope that we shall continue to receive these papers from year to year as long 

 as Dr. Fyles is able to give them to us. I have already suggested to him the 

 subjects of two future papers for next year's meeting and that of 1916 ! 



•John A. Praser was an English portrait painter who came to Canada and worked 

 for William Notman, the noted photographer of Montreal. Fraser became a charter 

 member of the R.C.A. in 1880. He died in 1898. Two pictures from his hand are in the 

 National Art Gallery of Canada. 



