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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



Such is the record Logan has left us of his Gaspe experience. From 

 early dawn to dusk he paced or paddled, and yet his work was not 

 finished, for while his Indians — often his solo companions — smoked 

 their pipes around the evening fire he wrote his notes and platted the 

 day's measurements. 



Logan is represented to us as strong in body, of active mind, indus- 

 trious, and doggedly persevering, painstaking, a lover of truth, gen- 

 erous, possessed of the keenest knowledge of human nature, sound of 

 judgment, but always cautious in expressing an opinion. 



During his twenty-seven years of office, sixteen reports were sub- 

 mitted, the first, that for the year 1843, appearing in the form of a 

 pamphlet of 159 octavo pages. It contained remarks on the mode of 

 making a geological survey and a short preliminary report containing 

 general observations on the geology of the provinces, and adjacent 



portions of the United States, together with 

 the Joggins section already mentioned. 



Assisted by Mr. Alexander Murray, and 

 later by the chemist, T. Sterry Hunt, Logan 

 continued his work until 1869, when he 

 resigned to be succeeded by Mr. Selwyn. 

 His reports cover the geology of Ottawa, 

 the Gaspe peninsula, the economic geology 

 of the Lake Superior region, the geolog} 7 

 of lower Canada with especial reference to 

 tin- <'astern townships, the region along the 

 north coast of Lake Huron, the gold-bearing 

 fields of the Chaudiere region, and the west- 

 ern peninsula, also the region between the 

 Ottawa, the St. Lawrence, and the Rideau. 

 His most important publication was his geology of Canada, noticed 

 above. His geological map, bearing date of 1866 and measuring 8 

 by 3i feet, is said to have been the largest and most comprehensive 

 that had appeared up to that time. 



Under the directorship of Logan, Alexander Murray, assisted by 

 James P. Howley, began work on the geology of Newfoundland in 

 1864, making a first brief report in May, 1866. The survey was con- 

 tinued until 1880, and a reprint of all the reports pub- 



Work of Murray , . , n . , , .. , - „ 0/ , 



and Howley in lished in book torm — an octavo volume ot 5^6 pages — 



Newfoundland, 1864. . 



in 1881. 

 The work as a whole consisted mainly of details of structure of the 

 regions immediately along the coast, with notes on the mines. The 

 various subdivisions of the formations adopted were naturally those 

 of the Canadian survey, which were based to a considerable extent 

 upon those of the New York survey. 



Fig. 71. — Thomas Sterry Hunt. 



