No. 1.] SIR WILLIAM EDMOND LOGAN. 43 



and branches of trees, and patched on the legs with sundry pieces 

 of leather of divers colours ; a broad-brimmed and round-topped 

 hat, once white, but now no colour, and battered into all shapes. 

 With all these adornments, I am not surprised that Mrs. Barton, 

 speaking of her children, and saying that here was "a little fel- 

 low frightened of nothing on earth," should qualify the expres- 

 sion by saying, "but I think he's a little scared at you, Sir." 



It was not alone in the field that Sir William was busy. His 

 office work was often most arduous, and during the earlier years 

 of his directorship, in addition to preparing his annual report, 

 he even kept, the accounts, entering every item of expenditure, 

 so that he could at any time shew exactly how every penny of 

 the public money placed at his disposal had been spent. He 

 also tells us that, with his own hand:*, he made, at that time, 

 four manuscript copies of the Annual Report of Progress, often 

 reaching more than one hundred printed pages — one copy for 

 the Government, one for the House of Assembly, one for the 

 Legislative Council, and one for the printer. 



His manner of living was simple as it was solitary. Like his 

 four brothers, he never married, nor does he seem to have 

 formed many intimate friendships. Still every one who knew 

 him loved him and respected him, and if you go the length and 

 breadth of all the land, you will everywhere hear his praises, 

 alike from rich and poor. 



He peculiarly possessed the power of inspiring others with his 

 own enthusiasm ; not only those in his employ, but even un- 

 educ ted farmers and backwoodsmen — men who, as a rule, are 

 rather sceptical about the advantages to be derived from geology. 



Though possessed of private means, he spent little upon him- 

 self ; not that he was parsimonious, but he cared not for fashion 

 or luxury. But with him Science never pleaded her needs in 

 vain. The first grant of the Legislature, to make a geological 

 survey of the Colonies, was £1,500 — an amount which. Sir 

 William quaintly remarked, was but a drop of what would be 

 required to float him over twenty-five degrees of longitude and ten 

 of latitude. This was, of course, very soon spent, and not only 

 this, but at the end of the second year the Survey was £800 

 in his debt, and he had no guarantee whatever that his money 

 would be returned to him. Since then the Survey has been 

 constantly indebted to him for books, instruments, and other 

 aids, and the building on St. James street, now used for office 



