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"Logan, Sir William Edmond," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) "Life of Sir William E. Logan ... first director of the Geological Survey of Canada", B. J. Harrington (1883) PDF; Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Sir William Edmond Logan was born in Montreal, Canada in 1798; his parents were Scottish émigrés, but Logan returned to Scotland to attend school and university. Later he became the manager of a copper works in Swansea, where his interest in the local coalfield geology began.
Logan obtained “a mass of testimonials“ including letters from four of the most influential British geologists of the time: De la Beche, Roderick Murchison, Adam Sedgwick, and William Buckland. As a consequence he was offered, and accepted, the directorship of the newly created Geological Survey of Canada, a post which he held until 1869.
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Encore aujourd'hui, le nom de William Edmond Logan figure sur les cartes du pays de Galles. Outre la confection de cartes géologiques, Logan participe à la création du Swansea Philosophical and Literary Institute, en 1835, dont il devient secrétaire honoraire et conservateur pour la section de géologie, de 1836 à 1842.
Sir William Edmond Logan was a highly intelligent individual who set high standards for geological mapping, and left an enormous legacy.Not only are there a number of prestigious medals and prizes awarded in his name (some because of his financial contributions to McGill University), there are more than a few geological entities named for him: two mountains, a mineral (weloganite), some ...
