William Edmond Logan

William Edmond Logan (born April 20, 1798 in Montreal , Canada , † June 22, 1875 in Pembrokeshire , Wales ) was a Canadian geologist .

Life

Born in Québec , Logan studied at the University of Edinburgh . When he took over the operation of a mine in South Wales near Swansea in 1831 , he began to study geology. He made a geological map of the coal fields of South Wales. On the basis of the research made in this regard, he wrote the text " About the nature of the clay soils that are located directly under the coal seams of South Wales and about the coal inclusions in the sandstone that occur in this area ", which he wrote to the Geological Society in 1840 of London submitted. In this writing, Logan suggested that the layer beneath the coal fields was the old surface on which the plants from which the remains of the coal formed had once grown.

Logan's geological skills soon found recognition and in 1842 he was tasked with founding the Geological Survey of Canada , of which he remained director until 1869. During his time as director, he described the Laurentine rock formations in the Canadian Laurentine Mountains and in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State .

During his successful career as a geologist, Logan received 22 awards. Among other things, he was in 1855 by the French Emperor Napoleon III. Admitted to the Legion of Honor and knighted by Queen Victoria in 1856 . In the same year Logan received the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London. In 1859 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1857 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1861 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Retired Logan retired to Pembrokeshire, West Wales in 1869, where he died in 1875. He was buried in a churchyard in Cilgerran .

Others

The Mount Logan , the highest mountain in Canada, was named after Logan.
The mineral weloganite , which was first found in Logan's hometown of Montreal, is also named after him.
The Geological Association of Canada awards the Logan Medal annually .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed January 2, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Logan, William Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal , Canada
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1875
Place of death	Pembrokeshire , Wales

[1] Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed January 2, 2020 .