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GSC History and historical resources
Sir William Logan 1798 - 1875
2005-11-22
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![I fancy I cut the nearest resemblance to a scare-crow. What with hair matted with spruce-gum, a beard three months old ... a pair of cracked spectacles ... [and] a waistcoat with patches on the left pocket where some sulfuric acid, which I carry in a small vial to try for the presence of lime in the rocks, had leaked through. - William E. Logan](/web/20061103001754im_/http://www.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/hist/logan/images/quote_e.gif "I fancy I cut the nearest resemblance to a scare-crow. What with hair matted with spruce-gum, a beard three months old ... a pair of cracked spectacles ... [and] a waistcoat with patches on the left pocket where some sulfuric acid, which I carry in a small vial to try for the presence of lime in the rocks, had leaked through. - William E. Logan")