William Edmond Logan
Sir William Edmond Logan (April 20th 1798 - June 22nd 1875) is a Canadian geologist .
Logan is born with Montreal with the Quebec. He studies with the Université of Edinburgh. It is interested in geology as an autodidact in 1831 when it buys a colliery with Swansea. It makes a geological chart coal basins of the south of the Wales and gives the opinion that the layers of clay under these basins were the ground on which the plants which formed coal lived.
Its reputation of geologist extends and in 1842 one proposes to him to establish the geological survey of the Canada. It directs this statement until in 1869. During this period it describes the rocks of the Laurentides of Canada and the Adirondacks in the North-East of New York.
It receives many honorary rewards, amongst other things the Légion of honor decreed by Napoleon III. It is named knight by the queen Victoria and off receives the Médaille Wollaston of the Geological Society London.
It withdraws in 1869 with Pembrokeshire where it dies in 1875. It is buried in the cemetery of Cilgerran.
More the high mountain of the Canada, the Mont Logan receives its name as well as a mineral discovered for the first time close to Montreal, the Weloganite. The Médaille Logan higher distinction in Géologie with the Canada bears also its name.
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