Author:William Edmond Logan

William Edmond Logan
(1798–1875)

William Edmond Logan

Works

• A Sketch of the Geology of Canada: Serving to Explain the Geological Map and the Collection of Economic Minerals Sent to the Universal Exhibition at Paris, 1855
• Geology of Canada - Report of progress from its commencement to 1863. 1863 PDF
  • Report of progress from its commencement to 1863, Atlas of maps and sections, Geological Survey of Canada. 1865. source

Papers

• "On the Character of the Beds of Clay immediately below the Coal-Seams of South Wales, and on the Occurrence of Boulders of Coal in the Pennant Grit of that District." Transactions of the Geological Society of London, vol. vi., 1842.
• "On the Packing of Ice in the St. Lawrence, and on a Land-Slide in the Valley of the Maskinongé", Geological Society of London, 1842
• "On the Age of the Copper-bearing Rocks of Lakes Superior and Huron, and Various Facts relating to the Physical Structure of Canada", circa 1851
• "On the Footprints occurring in the Potsdam Sandstone of Canada"
• "On the Division of the Azoic Rocks of Canada into Huronian and Laurentian"
• "Considerations relating to the Quebec Group and the Upper Copper-bearing Rocks of Lake Superior"
• "Remarks on the fauna of the Quebec group of rocks, and the primordial zone of Canada"

Work about Logan

• "Sketch of Sir William E. Logan, LL.D., F.G.S." in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (September 1883)
• "Logan, William Edmond," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "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