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Life of Sir William E. Logan, Kt., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &C; First Director of the Geological Survey of Canada

Life of Sir William E. Logan, Kt., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &C; First Director of the Geological Survey of Canada


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. GASPl EXPLORATIONS, 1844. SHORTLY after reaching Montreal, in the autumn of 1843, Logan proceeded to Kingston, in order to report himself at headquarters, and thence went in search of his assistant, eager to learn the result of his summer's campaign. They met at Toronto, and then came on together to Montreal, where it was decided that Mr. Murray should spend a month or two with his chief before going to his home at "Woodstock. During the summer they had collected large quantities of organic remains and minerals, and one of the first questions on their arrival at Montreal was what to do with the specimens. There was no chemist to analyze the minerals, no palaeontologist to determine or describe the fossils, no museum in which to display the specimens, not even a room in which to unpack them. But Mr. James Logan came to their aid, and placed at their disposal an "upper chamber" in his warehouse on St. Gabriel Street, where the boxes, papers and other property of the Survey were for the time deposited. The 178 NUCLEUS OF A MUSEUM. i843. fossils, of which there were many thousands, were now unpacked, each specimen carefully ticketed with a label indicating the locality, geological formation, &c. The specimens were then repacked in numbered boxes, the contents of which were duly catalogued. Logan, however, was not satisfied with having the originals thus carefully secured, but even constituted himself artist to the Survey, and, in his usual painstaking way, set about figuring some of the most characteristic forms. On the 11th. of December he wrote to Mr. Rawson: "The collection of specimens the Survey has brought together is quite overwhelming, and when I observe the small impression Murray and I have yet made on our seventy great boxes, most ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150457111
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 110
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150457112
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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