Mélanges de géographie physique, humaine, économique, appliquée offerts à M. Omer Tulippe, professeur à l’Université de Liège. Tome I : Géographie physique et géographie humaine

Summary

The visible opening and closing materials belong to Volume I, devoted to physical and human geography, of the geographical essays presented to Omer Tulippe, edited by José A. Sporck and published by J. Duculot in 1967. Friends and students offered the collection to celebrate Tulippe’s retirement and thirty years of teaching at the University of Liège. The opening contents list a biographical tribute and bibliography of Tulippe, followed by contributions on continental and oceanic arrangement, general, glacial and periglacial geomorphology, climatology, plant geography, changes in nature, and rural settlement. The closing extract contains a discussion of toponymy attributed to L. E. Hamelin and a selected bibliography. Hamelin notes that several large Canadian geographical groupings lack well-established collective names and advocates a policy for creating new place names. This policy would encompass regions at different scales, water surfaces and beds, ice fields, aerial and interplanetary spaces, and other celestial bodies. He calls for interdisciplinary work involving geography, cartography, administrative sciences, and other relevant fields, and proposes university centres in Canada for toponymic research and teaching. The bibliography covers Canadian and Quebec place names, Indigenous names, naming principles, and regional nomenclature. This summary is limited to the visible front matter and the ending of the final contribution.