No. 1.] SIR WILLIAM EDMOND LOGAN. 39 



Nearly the whole of 1854 was occupied in making preparations 

 for the Exhibition which was to take place at Paris in the follow- 

 ing year, and to which Mr. Logan was to go as one of the Cana- 

 dian Commissioners. It was in the autumn of 1854 also, that a 

 select committee was appointed by the Canadian Government to 

 inquire into the best method of making the information acquired 

 by the Geological Survey more readily accessible to the public. 

 A lengthy report on the subject— indeed on the entire working 

 of the Survey — was published, and the evidence which it con- 

 tains is of a most flattering character, both as regards the Direc- 

 tor and those associated with him. 



Then came the Paris Exhibition of 1855, at which the repre- 

 sentation of the economic minerals of Canada was so complete 

 and the arrangement so admirable that the collection attracted 

 universal attention. This in itself Logan would have regarded 

 as amply repaying him for his trouble, but greater honour was 

 in store for him. The Imperial Commission presented him with 

 the grand gold medal of honour, and the Emperor of the French 

 made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Early in the 

 following year (1856) he was knighted by Queen Victoria, and 

 received from the Geological Society of London the Wollaston 

 Palladium Medal in recognition of his distinguished labours in 

 geology. Long previous he had won the confidence and esteem 

 of his fellow-countrymen in Canada, but this seemed to be a 

 fitting time to testify to him their appreciation of his worth. 

 Accordingly, on his return to Montreal, the citizens presented 

 him with a testimonial on which were engraved the words: 



" In commemoration of his long and useful services as Pro- 

 vincial Geologist in Canada, and especially his valuable services 

 in connection with the Exhibition of all Nations in London in 

 1851, and in Paris in 1855, by which he not only obtained for 

 himself higher honor and more extended reputation, but largely 

 contributed in making known the natural resources of his native 

 country." 



The Natural History Society of Montreal presented him with 

 an address, and made him an honorary member, while the mem- 

 bers of the Canadian Institute of Toronto, of which Sir William 

 was the first President, had his portrait painted and hung up 

 in their hall. They also presented him with an address expres- 

 sive of their affectionate esteem and respect. Sir William's 

 reply to this was so full of feeling, and so highly characteristic, 



