62 CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



Moved by Mr. S. R. Wickett, and seconded by Mr. J. F. Ellis, 



That the Dominion and Provincial Government be memorialized to make 

 more adequate provision for forestry exhibits in museums with a view to popular 

 instruction and the stimulating of popular interest in our native woods, the 

 curators to give popular lectures on the exhibits, and travelling exhibits to be ar- 

 ranged for from time to time accompanied by competent lecturers. 



Also, that the Dominion Government through its Agricultural Department 

 be asked to prepare a series of bulletins on the planting and care of trees, and their 

 importance to the country, and that these bulletins be distributed free amongst the 

 the farmers of this country, this series of bulletins to be along lines similar to those 

 followed for the spreading of agricultural information by the Dominion Experi- 

 mental Farmland might be issued directly by the Dominion Government, and also 

 through the various agricultural departments, when once the material is prepared. 



This resolution was also referred to the Committee on Resolutions. 



Canon DATJTH, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I see that the great 

 anxiety at this moment among those who are interested in the subject of forestry 

 in the Province of Quebec and in the other Provinces of the Dominion, is this: to 

 take precautions against the dangers of fire. For my part I am not opposed to this, 

 and yet what I am about to say to you will perhaps appear a paradox. I rise at this 

 moment to demand of the Canadian Forestry Association not to extinguish but to 

 light the fire, you understand, to light the fire, the fire of enthusiasm for the preser- 

 vation of our forests, for the development of the science of forestry. And although 

 it may be true I am afraid this is another paradox although it be true that 

 the old wood burns better and more quickly than the green wood, I ask you, never- 

 theless, to kindle this fire of enthusiasm of which I speak particularly among the 

 young. We, who are already old, we are slower in developing enthusiasm, we 

 have prejudices, our activity is not exuberant; the young become enthusiastic more 

 quickly and act more promptly. As, in my capacity of vice-rector of Laval Univer- 

 sity and of President of the Catholic Schools of Montreal, I occupy myself especially 

 with youth. Here, it seems to me, is a proposition which should be of a nature to 

 cause the enterprise to which you devote yourselves to prosper. 



By all means-, continue these congresses, these meetings for adults and for the 

 success and the development of the science of forestry, but could you not at the 

 same time organize a series of lectures to be regulated by your committee, let us say 

 a series of five or six lectures, which should be distributed among the persons most 

 competent to treat the questions inscribed on this programme; and afterwards, 

 could not these lectures be given in our universities, at Laval, at McGill, in our 

 colleges? In the district alone which contains the University of Laval in Montreal 

 we have ten classical colleges from which, as you know, all notaries, lawyers, doc- 

 tors and priests graduate. It seems to me that if these young people should hear 

 during their course of study, five or six lectures every year on the object of your 

 solicitude, they would, when they should afterwards return to exerci e their pro- 



