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TESTIMONIALS

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MR. W. E. LOGAN,

IN RKGAKD TO illS APrOINTMENT AS

PROYINCIAL GEOLOGIST

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G. W. HOPE, ESQ., M. P., UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT.

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MONTREAL :
LOVELL AND GIBSON, PRINTERS, ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

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Kingston, 20th Nov., 1843.

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With reference to the request wliich you made to me on Tuesday
last, to be furnished with copies of the Testimonials accompanjiiig the
recommendation of the Secretary of Sttite, in your favor, for tl (
appointment of Provincial Geologist, 1 have tlic pleasure to inform
you, that I have received the Governor General's permission to comply
with your desire, and that you can receive the said copies whenever
you revisit Kingston.

I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,

R. W. Rawson,

Chief Secretary.
W. E. Logan, Esq.

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From Sir H. T. Ue la Beche, F. R. S., Foreign Secretary of the
Geuloykal Society of London, and Director of the Ordnance
CU'olo(fieal Survey of Great Britain.

(Copy.)

Sir,

Ordnance Geological Survey of Great Britain,
4th April, 1842.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communi-
cation of the 2cl instant, accompanying the copy of a letter to Lord
Stanley, from His Excellency the Governor General of Canada, on the
subject of the qualifications of Mr. W. E. Logan to undertake the
Geological examination of Canada, for which the Provincial Legisla-
ture has voted the sum of £1500.

I would request you to do me the favour to represent to Lord Stjmley,
that I consider Mr. W. E. Logan perfectly qualified for the task,
having had occasion, during the progress of the Ordnance Geological
Survey in South Wales, to examine the labours of that gentleman,
upon the important coal district contained in large portions of Gla-
morganshire, Carmarthenshire, and Brecknockshire.

Prior to the appearance of the Geological Survey in that part of
the country, Mr. W. E. Logan had carefully investigated it, and at
the meeting of the British Association for the advancen.ent of
Science, held at Liverpool in 1837, he exhibited a beautifully executed

map of it.

The work on this District, being of an order so greatly superior to
that usual with Geologists, and corresponding in the minuteness and
accuracy of it^ detail with the maps and sections executed by the
Ordnance Geological Survey, wc felt desirous of availing ouraehes of
it, when Mr. Logan most handsomely placed it at our disposal.
Having verified this work with great care, we find it so excellent that

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wp shall iKlopt it I'ur tlmt part ol' f!io luimtry to which it relatoji, oon-
sidcrinj^ it but lair !in<l proper tliat Mr. Lo,£]faii should obtain that
credit to which his labours so justly ciilitlc him.

His seetion-s are all levelled and mcasureil earoCuUy with proper
instruments, and his maps arc executed uitli a j>recision only as yet
employed, except in his case, on the Ordnance Geological Survey ; it
being considered essential on tliat siirv(^y lor tho right j)rogress of
(jrcology, and its applications to the useful purposes of life, that this
accuracy and precision should be attained.

Personally I have examined several portions of country witli Mr.
W. E. Logan, and can safely affirm that no one can be more careful,
able, or desirous of attaining the truth.

He has made communications to the Geological Society, respecting
points of high interest connected with the Ibrmation of coil, and re-
cently has comnnmicated to the same Society a Memoi: on Ncjva
Scotia, and Pennsylvania, important in various respects, more particu-
larly as relating to Canada. /

I would further observe, that Mr. Logan is highly qijalified as a
Miner and Metallurgist, to point out the a[)plications of Geology to the
useful purposes of life, an object of the highest importance in a country
like Canada, the mineral wealth of which is now s(» little known.

I should anticipate the best results both to the science of Geology
and its applications, from the employment of Mr. ixtgan on the Geolo-
gical Survey of Canada.

I have, &c.,

• (Signed,) II. T. De la Be<iie,

Director Geological Surreij.
G. W. Hope, Esq.

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From the Rev. W. Buckland, D. D., F. R. S., Vice President of the
Geological Society of London, and Professor of (reologi/ in the
Universitif of Oorford.

Oxford, 2d April, 1842.

(Copy.)

Sir,

My absence from Oxford has prevented me from receiving, until
this day, your letter of the 31st March, asking ray opinion as to the
qualiiications of Mr. W. E. Logan, for undertaking a Geological Sur-
vey of Canada.

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I bcj^ in reply to state, that 1 vviis roctMitly on the point of writinjr
to Sir Charles Bii'rot for the jjiirjiosc of rccornnK^iKling him, iiH pre-
eminently qualified for this service, but I withheld my upplic tion,
because I ci^nsidered that hia services mif^ht, with still jjreater advan-
tage to this country, be a{)plieil to a Survey of Nova Scotia, where
there is a very lar<i;e and valuable Coal-field belonginpj to the Crown,
with which he is better acquainted than any man living, and respcct-
Jn<5 which, and also the Coal-field of Pennsylvania, lie read a most
valuable paper ten days ago, before the Geological So<nf ty of London.

About a fortnight ago T wrote a letter to Sir Robert Peel, request-
ing his attention to the expediency of employing Mr. Logan to make
a Geological Survey of Nova Scotia. Should Sir Robert Peel have
forwarded this letter to Lord Stanley, I beg to refer to it in evidence
of my opinion of Mr. Logan, and his high ((ualitications as the most
skilful Geological Surveyor of a Coal-field I have ever known.

Mr. De la Beche has adopted in toto for his ^ '''?\
the Ordnance Map of Wales, tlu^ work lie fo^
Logan as to that part of the South Wales Cc
Swansea, and I will procure from Mr. DelaBec
ment of his opinions as to Mr. L(jgan's work, uo .
shire, which I will take the liberty of submitting to you.

i have, &c.,

(Signed) W. Bicklaxd.

(^. W. Hope Esq.

&c. &c. &c.

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From Roderick Impky Murchison, Esq., F. R. S., President of the

Geological Society of London.

(Copy.)

16 Bklguave Square, 3d April, 1842.
Sir,

h\ reply to the letter of yesterday which you did me the honour
of addressing to me, by the desire of Lord Stanley, and in which my
opinion is asked respecting the capability of Mr. W. E. Logan to
undertake a Geological Survey of Canada, T have great pleasure in
saying, that I consider him to be eminently qualified to execute the
task.

I beg to state that I recommend Mr. Logan, not merely from my
acquaintance %vith his works in general, but also from a knowledge of

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certain very skill'iil labours in the South Wales Coal-fn-ld, which drew
from ine a strong rxpressictn of my ycnse oi" their value in an account
of the Map of the Silurian region.

I would ftdd tliat, having chiefly studied the older rocks, including
the carboniferous deposits, Mr. liCgan is admiuably prepared t^o dcve-
lope the subsoil of Canada, which consists in a grftit measure of such
strata ; and I venture to assure Lord Stanley that if his Lordship
should approve of the suggestion of Sir Charle Bagot, he will ren-
der essential service to that important c-'lony, and materially advance
Geological enquiry.

I have, &c., • *

(Signed) Rod. L Murchison.

G. W. Hope, Esq.,

&c. &c. &c.

From the'RF.Y.A. Skdowick, F.ll. S., Vice President of the Geological
Society of Lojidoti, and Professor of Geology in the University of
Cambridge,

CAMimiDGK, 5th April, 1842.

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Sib,

I take the earliest opportunity of replying to your letter of
March 31st, containing a copy of a despatch from »ir Charle-s Bagot,
on the subject of a Geological Survey of Canada. Of Mr. Logan 1
personally know very little ; but I know his character, and some-
thing of liis labours. He is an excellent Field Geologist, as he has
proved by his admirable Map and Sections in South Wales ; and he
has extended his observations into the Coal-fields of the United States,
having as I am informed, read an excellent paper on the Coal-fields
of Pennsylvania. I had not, however, the good fortune to be present
when this paper was lately read at a meeting jf the Gecilogical So-
ciety. I have no hesitation in recommending Mr. Logan, and I have
no doubt that if appointed to the Survey of Canada, he will enter on
the labour with unbounded zeal, and with very great skill.

I have, he.

(Signed) A. Sedgwick.

G. W. Hope, Esq.,

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