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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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geology, as the starting point of the geological mapping of Canada by William Edmond Logan. Stonehammer EthNew Brunswick Canada 45°34′46″N 65°32′40″W / 45...
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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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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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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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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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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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Engineering Hall of Fame (listed by date of birth): William Edmond Logan (1798–1875) John William Dawson (1820–1899) Sandford Fleming (1827–1915) Alexander...
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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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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 magnetotellurics Robert Jameson, naturalist and mineralist Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of...
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unusual design significance and prominence in Glacier National Park. William Edmond Logan Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations...
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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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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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