6 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE PITTSBURGH MEETING 



them will show the esteem in which his geological service was held by the 

 provincial government of Quebec and by the Dominion. 



It is to his geological work that we ought on this occasion direct our 

 special attention and estimate. Monsigneur Laflamme was active in geo- 

 logical matters of public concern. Preliminary to the meeting of the com- 

 missions of the two countries interested in the reduction of water abstrac- 

 tion at Niagara, he made a careful study and report upon the conditions 

 there; he investigated the abstraction of water from Montmorency Falls 

 by the Quebec Light and Power Company, and his report led to the cor- 

 rection of a public wrong and restored to a singularly beautiful spot 

 some of the glory of which it had been robbed. For the Geological Sur- 

 vey he made a report on the Saguenay and Lake Saint John region. 

 Most of his special papers were printed in the Proceedings of the Eoyal 

 Society of Canada, and the unusual scope of his interest is well indicated 

 by their subjects. He discusses the occurrence of gold, of emerald, and 

 of natural gas in Quebec ; the contact of the crystallines and paleozoics ; 

 the landslides of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes and of Saint Alban, and the 

 effects of the latter on the drainage; the earthquakes of Quebec; the 

 meteorology of Quebec, and the Quaternary deposits of Anticosti Island. 

 In later articles he has written on the Laurentides and on the Notre 

 Dame or Shick-Shock Mountains of Gaspe. These may be regarded as 

 indicating the immediate expression of his activity in the science we here 

 cultivate, but it would be scant justice to Laflamme should we pass un- 

 noticed his text-books, ^^Elements de mineralogie et geologic," "Notions 

 sur Felectricite et le magnetisme.'^ 



But Laflamme was a public man acutely interested in affairs and civic 

 concerns, and this activity, supported by his great learning, gave him 

 general recognition among the influential and distinguished leaders in 

 French Canada. He was a leading organizer of the Congress of Ameri- 

 canists held at Quebec in 1906, and his late and most fruitful propa- 

 ganda was on behalf of forestry and a forestry school for the Province of 

 Quebec. Monseigneur Laflamme's personal modesty kept him under 

 some restraint before the public, but he was a charming and compelling 

 speaker. In the effort to arouse a public sentiment favoring scientific 

 forestation he put aside his reserve, made many effective public appear- 

 ances, earned the applause of his colleagues, and with their help won and 

 lived to see the establishment of a forestry school in his own province and 

 at his own university. It has been suggested by his colleagues of the 

 forestry department of Quebec that this new institution be known as the 

 Laflamme School of Forestry. Such an act would be a gracious tribute 



