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While engaged in this work he discovered, in one of the bands of lime- 

 stone belonging to the Lower Laurentian series, the oldest known fossil, 

 Eozoon canadense, the structure of which has since been made the subject 

 of elaborate memoirs by Dr. Dawson, of Montreal, and Dr. Carpenter, 

 who consider it to belong to the Foraminifera. The subject was and is 

 of high importance in geology, and at the time of the discovery excited 

 much interest among geologists and biologists. 



In 1851 Mr. Logan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society : in 1856 

 the honour of knighthood was conferred on him, in recognition of his 

 great services to geology ; and the award of the Wollaston Medal by the 

 Greological Society, in the same year, and of a Royal Medal by the Royal 

 Society in 1867, marked the esteem in which his scientific achievements 

 were held. Among other distinctions he was LL.D., F.Gr.S., and Vice- 

 President of the Natural-History Society of Montreal. 



Sir William Logan died on the 22nd of June, 1875, at Castle Malgwyn, 

 in the house of his sister, Mrs. Gower, in his 77th year ; and it may truly 

 be said of him that no man was ever more esteemed and beloved by a 

 numerous circle of friends. 



By the death of Daniel Hanbtjrt the Society has lost a very learned 

 and highly cultivated pharmacologist, who had for some years occupied 

 one of the first places among the scientific men of Europe. Besides 

 advancing the science of pharmacy by his numerous writings, he led 

 the way in promoting a scientific education among druggists, in con- 

 ducting examinations in London which greatly improved their status, 

 in promoting the welfare of the Pharmaceutical Society, and in organi- 

 zing those pharmaceutical conferences, of which he was twice the Presi- 

 dent, that meet annually at the time and place of meeting of the British 

 Association. 



Mr. Hanbury will be best known to posterity by the work, brought 

 out shortly before his death by Dr. Fliickiger and himself, entitled 

 " Pharmacographia : a History of Drugs," which may be regarded as a 

 monument of his profound knowledge and great capacity. His published 

 papers, more than sixty in number, dating from 1850, are all original 

 investigations into the origin, history, botanical and chemical characters, 

 names, uses, and commercial value of drugs ; and it may be said of 

 them that, in point of accuracy and scientific method, they are perfect. 

 Hence but few readers have ventured to criticise his statements, so well 

 and widely known was his caution and his mastery of all the subjects 

 on which he wrote. 



Nor were his scientific labours confined to the library and labora- 

 tory ; he travelled much, not for commercial objects, but in pursuit 

 of pharmaceutical information, and alwa)s with one definite object of 

 inquiry, to which all others were subsidiary. He journeyed in Syria 

 with Dr. Hooker in 1860, and made many visits to Middle and Southern 



