144 Miscellaneous — SirW. E. Logan and Mr. Alfred 8elwyn. 



characteristic of eacli formation. The specimens are necessarily 

 small, but when the representation of a larger form appears requisite, 

 an engraving is substituted. The Norwich Crag, for instance, is 

 illustrated with the following specimens : — Nucula Cobboldi^, Tellina 

 obliqua, Cardium edule, Littorina littorea, Furpura lapillus, and a 

 small engraving of a Mastodon's tooth. The Mountain Limestone is 

 illustrated with 25 specimens, and so on. More than 400 fossils 

 and rocks are here displayed in four cases, and altogether they form, 

 a very useful diagram for educational purposes. 



Sir Wm. E. Logan, LL.D., F.E.S., F.Gr.S., Dikector of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada. — " The retirement of Sir William 

 E. Logan from the Geological Survey" (says the Daily Globe, 

 Toronto) " will be received with regret by all who are acquainted 

 with the faithful services which he has rendered to the country. Sir 

 William Logan is a man of learning ; his achievements in his own 

 particular subject have earned the applause of scientific bodies in 

 Europe, who are the best qualified to judge of their value. But Sir 

 William is also a man of stiict honesty, and, what is not so often 

 found in men of science, is possessed of remarkable common sense. 

 Many times his statements in reference to economical minerals have 

 been questioned — sometimes even with what appeared at the moment 

 to be justice. Experience, however, invariably proved him to be 

 right. He has always wisely and prudently guarded his statements, 

 so as to prevent reckless expenditure of money in unproductive 

 mines, while he has given all needful encouragement to reasonable 

 and intelligent hopes of a financial return. It is something for him 

 to say, in leaving the Survey, that his statements have deceived no 

 one ; that not one dollar has been expended by reason of errors or too 

 sanguine statements on his part. In the choice of his subordinates, 

 and the expenditure of monies allotted to him by the Legislature, he 

 has been all that the Government and the public could desire. It 

 may safely be said that from no other department of the Administra- 

 tion have such results been obtained as from the Geological Survey. 

 We part from Sir William Logan with regret, but congratulate our- 

 selves that, though laid aside from public duty, he is still by no 

 means incapable of labour ; and we trust that he may live many 

 years to enjoy the honours which he has so well earned. We know 

 nothing of Mr. Selwyn, his successor; but Sir William Logan's 

 recommendation is sufficient of itself to secure his appointment ; the 

 public will judge him afterwards by his labours." — Although Mr. 

 Alfred E. C. Selwyn may not be known to the general public in 

 Canada, yet he is very well known to scientific Geologists in Britain 

 and elsewhere — first, by his labours in connection with the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Great Britain ; and afterwards by the able manner 

 in which he conducted the Geological Survey of Victoria, till the 

 necessities, parsimony, or ignorance of that Colonial Government 

 induced its Ministry to stop the work, and pay off all the officers, of a 

 Survey which took rank with the best-conducted Geological Surveys 

 in the world. — Edit. 



