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    Sir William Edmond Logan, FRSE FRS FGS (20 April 1798 – 22 June 1875), was a Canadian-born geologist and the founder and first director of the Geological...
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    was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane...
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  • Bill, Willie or William Logan may refer to: William Logan (politician) (1776–1822), U.S. Senator from Kentucky William Logan (temperance campaigner) (1813–1879)...
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    mineralogist Ann P. Sabina in 1967 and named for Canadian geologist Sir William Edmond Logan (1798–1875). It was first discovered in Francon Quarry, Montreal...
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  • the Fields Medal), William Edmond Logan, Daniel Wilson, John Henry Lefroy, John Beverley Robinson, George William Allan, William Henry Draper, Oliver...
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    mining began in the Thetford hills, Quebec, from the 1870s. Sir William Edmond Logan was the first to notice the large deposits of chrysotile in the hills...
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    industrial activities such as forestry or broadcasting. Mount Logan is named after William Edmond Logan. Although already in use for some time, the name was formalized...
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    1852 William Henry Fitton 1853 Adolphe d'Archiac 1853 Édouard de Verneuil 1854 Richard John Griffith 1855 Henry De la Beche 1856 William Edmond Logan 1857...
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    rocks that occupy the interior that were first mapped in 1844 by Sir William Edmond Logan, known as the father of Canadian geology. Fossils in such rocks show...
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  • Geological Survey of Canada was formed to fulfill this request. William Edmond Logan was in Montreal at the time and made it known that he was interested...
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    Transportation, Minister of Foreign Affairs David H. Levy, astronomer William Edmond Logan, geologist Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Henry...
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  • highest award of the Geological Association of Canada. Named after Sir William Edmond Logan, noted 19th-century Canadian geologist. It is presented annually...
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    promontory, in the way of the Logan's Line - an inactive fracture in the Earth's crust first documented by William Edmond Logan. In addition to its long history...
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    at Rhosygilwen mansion between Cilgerran and Rhoshill. William Edmond Logan (1798 in Mount Logan, Canada – 1875 buried in Cilgerran), the first director...
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  • Britain. Barlow and his family came to Canada in 1855 as a recruit of William Edmond Logan for the Geological Survey of Canada. He became the chief draughtsman...
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  • Copley Medal: Henri Milne-Edwards Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Edmond Logan February 15 – Emil Kraepelin (died 1926), German psychiatrist. March...
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    English cricketer (d. 1894) Dermide Leclerc, French nobility (d. 1804) William Edmond Logan, British-Canadian geologist (d. 1875) Chauncy Hare Townshend, English...
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    the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (b.1806) June 22 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (b.1798) July 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third...
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    blumenbachii Diphyphyllum irregulare Amplexus laxatus Rhynchonella sp. Athyris sp. Logan, W.E., Murray, A., Hunt, T.S., and Billings, E., 1863. Geology of Canada...
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  • Victor Ling CC (born 1944) – medicine, drug resistance in cancer Sir William Edmond Logan FRS (1798–1875) – founded the Geological Survey of Canada Mary MacArthur...
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  • David Lipper – actor Liu Fang – musician Pascal Lochard – CFL player William Edmond Logan – geologist Jennifer Lonergan – educator, nonprofit executive, promoter...
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    of civilisation in the old and the new world (1862) Volume 1; Volume 2 William Nelson: A Memoir (1889) The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies...
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    been reported from eastern Canada as early as 1846, when researcher William Edmond Logan reported the occurrence of an animal "bearing strong resemblance...
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  • Medica) Martin Lister (c. 1638–1712), English, pioneer geologist William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), Canadian, founded Geological Survey of Canada Fred Longstaffe...
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    Middle Ordovician rocks, is known as Emmons' line, formerly Logan's line after William Edmond Logan. This segment is named after Emmons and extends from Canada...
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  • of magnetotellurics Robert Jameson, naturalist and mineralist Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of...
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    later that year. The Joggins Formation was first surveyed by William Edmond Logan. Logan's theories of in situ coal formation at the Glamorganshire Coalfield...
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    falls' presence. One of the area's most famous visitors was Sir William Edmond Logan (later head of the Geological Survey of Canada). In 1833 he carried...
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    Layton (1950–2011), politician Jaclyn Linetsky (1986–2003), actress William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), geologist Kevin Lowe (born 1959), National Hockey League...
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  • Geological Survey of Canada and, more particularly, the work of William Edmond Logan, who had helped establish that body. His son, Robert Bell, became...
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