118 . THE REPOKT OF THE No. 36 



HENKY HERBERT I.YMAJnT, M.A. 



The appalling calamity that befell the steamship " Empress of Ireland/' in 

 the River St. Lawrence, near Father Point, shortly after midnight on Friday, 

 May 29th, was acutely brought home to the older members of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario by the sad tidings that Mr. H. H. Lyman and his wife were 

 among the thousaaid and more wlio were lost. For some lew days we hoped against 

 hope, but no traces of them' have been found and there is not a vestige to show m 

 what manner death c^me upon them; it seems most probable that they were drowned 

 in their stateroom before they had time to escape. Mr. Lyman was to have sailed 

 a fortnight earlier, but owing to the pressure of business matters he postponed his 

 departure, with so sad a result. 



Mr. Lyman was born in Montreal on the 21st of December, 1854, and received 

 his early education at the High School and West End Academy. At McGill 

 University he took the Arts Course and proceeded to the degree of B.A. in 1876, 

 winning the Logan Medal in Geology and Natural Science, and received his M.A. 

 degree in 1880. On completing his college career he entered his father's firm, 

 Lymans, Clare & Co., wholesale chemists and druggists in Montreal; in 1885 he 

 became a partner in the business, whose name has been changed to Lyman, Sons 

 & Co. On the death of his father he became senior partner and president of Ly- 

 mans, Limited, which includes the branch house in Toronto. His position in these 

 important concerns manifests his remarkable business capacity and the attention 

 he must have paid to their affairs. The houses are widely known throughout 

 Canada, and bear the highest reputation for upright dealing, energy, and enter- 

 prise. 



Though mueh engrossed with the management of a very large business estab- 

 lishment which demanded a close attention to innumera'ble details, Mr. Lyman 

 found time for an active interest in many other things. In 1877 he joined the 

 5th Battalion of the 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 188G, asking that an Imperial Conference re- 

 presenting the whole British Empire should be summoned; the conference was 

 held during the following year; he was also a director of the British and Colonial 

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

 perialist, and considered that the perpetual unity of the Empire far surpassed in 

 importance all other political questions ; he advocated 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 January 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 pai-ns 



