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tender to you our most hearty congratulations on the high, but justly merited, 

 honors with which it has pleased Her Majesty to mark her sense of your distin- 

 guished merits as the foremost in the ranks of scientific men in this Province of 

 the Empire. 



We rejoice in the fresh evidence which your reception of the distinguished ho- 

 nor of knighthood affords, of our full share, as Canadians, in all the honors and 

 privileges which pertain to the members of the United Empire; while we feel a 

 peculiar gratification, as members of this Institute, in hailing as the recipient of 

 one of the highest distinctions conferred on men of science by the British Sove- 

 reign, one on whom the first choice of this Institute fell to fill its presidential 

 chair. 



In now adorning our Hall of meeting with your portrait, permit us to assure 

 you that while our estimate of your distinguished rank as a scientific geologist, and 

 four disinterested and indefatigable zeal in all that can dcvelope the resources and 

 promote the true interests of Canada, cannot be affected by any distinctions con- 

 ferred on you, we fully sympathise in the just pride which you must feel in being 

 made a recipient of the same honors which British Sovereigns have already em- 

 ployed to mark with peculiar distinction the intellectual achievements of a Xewton, 

 a Davy, a Brewster, a Lyell and a Murchison. Nor can we withhold the expres- 

 sion of our congratulations on other no less merited honors, and especially on your 

 receipt, by the award of your scientific brethren, of the Wollaston Medal ; one of 

 the highest marks of distinction with which they could testify their sense of the 

 rank you have achieved in your labors as a Canadian geologist. 



In the same spirit we now seek to confer on you such evidences of our appreci- 

 ation of your successful labors in the cause of science as it is in our power to be- 

 stow ; and, humble as is our position in relation to science, we venture to hope 

 that our cordial congratulations will not be the less acceptable that they are ad- 

 dressed to the most distinguished among the scientific men of Canada, by a Cana- 

 dian Institution. 



Sir. William Logan replied — ' Mr. President, I am very grateful to yourself, to 

 the Council, and to the Members of the Canadian Institute, for the very flattering 

 manner in which you have been pleased to speak of me in your address — for your 

 kind welcome — and for the congratulations which you offer me, on my success in 

 France and in England. Whatever distinctions, however, may be bestowed on us 

 at a distance, it is upon the respect, esteem, and confidence shewn us at home, 

 that our happiness and satisfaction must chiefly depend. I can assure you, with 

 sincerity, that the honor conferred upon me when you elected me the First Presi- 

 dent of the Institute, was one highly prized, although the circumstances of a dis- 

 tant domicile, and the intent pursuit of the investigations with which lam charged, 

 rendered it extremely difficult for me to be of much use in your proceedings. And 

 I feel it as no slight compliment that you should place a memento of me by the 

 side of my friend, and much more worthy successor, Colonel Lefroy, whose con- 

 stant exertions in the exact observation of Meteorological phenomena, have tended 

 so greatly to spread the name of Toronto in the scientific world. It is a fortunate 

 circumstance for me that my name should be connected with an act of grace on 

 the part of Her Majesty, which serves to confirm your feeling in regard to the 

 fact that as Canadians we enjoy a full share in the honors and privileges of British 

 subjects. And I am proud to think that it was, perhaps, more because I was a 



