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hallow, William G. Tight, T. C. Weston, and Eobert Parr Whitfield. 

 Memorials of deceased Fellows were then presented as follows: 



MEMOIR OF J. C. K. LAFLAMME 

 BY JOHN M. CIARKE 



Joseph Clovis Kemner Ijaflamme was born at the little village of Saint 

 Anselme, Dorchester County, Province of Quebec, September 19, 1849. 

 His father was David Kemner Lafiamme; his mother, Marie Josephte 

 Jamme. After a usual course in the parochial schools he entered the 

 Petit Seminaire of Quebec, and subsequently the arts course in the Laval 

 University, from which he graduated in 1868, taking his master^s degree 

 in 1884. Entering the Grand Seminaire for the theological course, he 

 took his bachelor's degree in 1871, his licentiate in 1872, and his doctorate 

 in 1873. In 1873 he was ordained priest, and directly thereafter ap- 

 pointed professor of geology and physics in Laval University. He was 

 successively director and superior of the seminaire, dean of the arts 

 faculty of the university, and twice and for many years rector of the 

 university. He was one of the founders of the Eoyal Society of Canada, 

 its president in 1891, in the same year being the official delegate of Can- 

 ada at the International Geological Congress at Washington, and in 1897 

 was one of the vice-presidents of the Saint Petersburg Congress. He 

 w^as designated in 1892 Bishop of Chicoutimi, a preferment he declined, 

 and in 1894 he was appointed by the Pope protonotaire apostolique, a 

 dignity which carries with it the title of monseigneur, by which he had 

 become generally known. He was a director in the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a member of the Geo- 

 logical Societies of France and of Belgium, as well as of several other 

 dignified organizations. In the year of his second rectorship he retired 

 from his office on account of the growing severity of a malady from which 

 he had long suffered, and after protracted treatment at the hospital and 

 the seminar}^, he died on July 6, 1910, in his sixty-first year, at the Grand 

 Seminaire, which had been the home of his life. 



Thus the brief chronology of a strong and fertile life, a life whose 

 phases are so unusual in the annals of American geology as to be of espe- 

 cial note and inspiration. 



Monseigneur Laflamme was first of all a true-hearted priest, beyond 

 reproach in his devotion to his church, her ordinances, and her great 

 aims. In any estimate of the influence of his apostolate in science this 

 prime factor must not be overlooked. Second only to this, he was an 



