Zi^^ ENTOMOLOGICAI. NEWS. [ Julv, '14 



Empress of Ireland, foundered in the St. Lawrence River 

 off Father Point, Quebec. Those of us whose latest personal 

 association with both of them was at the Atlanta meeting of 

 the Entomological Society of America, last December, feel the 

 suddenness of their removal with especial keenness, remem- 

 bering the eagerness with which Mrs. Lyman was looking for- 

 ward to the visit to England so hopelessly prevented at its 

 outset. To our Canadian colleagues we tender our hearty 

 sympathy. 



Henry Herbert Lyman was born at Montreal, Canada. De- 

 cember 21. 1854, and took the B.A. and M.A. degrees at 

 McGill University in 1876 and 1880, respectively. He en- 

 gaged in the drug business, eventually becoming senior partner 

 of the firm of Lyman. Sons & Company and also president of 

 The Lyman Brothers & Company, Limited, of Toronto. 



Dr. C. ]. S. Rethune wrote of him in the Report of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario for 1899 (p. 123) : 



When less than eight years old he began to take an interest in 

 insects and to observe their ways, and when only twelve he started to 

 form a collection, the precursor of what is now one of the finest 

 collections of Lepidoptera in Canada. His first printed observation 

 on insects appeared in the sixth volume of the Canadian Entomologist 

 (1874) and showed that even in those early days he was engaged in 

 the rearing of butterflies and moths, a work to which he has largely 

 devoted himself ever since. 



The scientific societies with which he was connected include 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario (vice-president 1895-7. 

 president 1897-9), and its Montreal Branch, the Entomological 

 Society of America (fellow), the New York Entomological 

 Society, Cambridge Entomological Club, Xatural History So- 

 ciety of Montreal, the International Congresses of Entomology, 

 and the American and British Associations for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson, Chief Assistant Entomologist of the 

 Department of Agriculture of the Dominion of Canada, writes : 



His death is a great loss to our Society, particularly to the ento- 

 mological branch. He had been looking forward to continuing his 

 entomological work, as in alterations recently made to his house 

 [74 McTavish Street, Montreal] he had arranged for an entomological 

 studio, greenhouse, etc., for studying life-histories. 



H. S. 



