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WE have received information of a most munificent act on the part of that veteran in Geological Science, Sir William E. Logan, in supplementing, by the handsome gift of 18,000 dols., the sum of 2,000 dols. given by him and his brother, Mr. Hart Logan, last year towards the endowment of the Chair of Geology in M'Gill University, Montreal; The “Logan Chair of Geology” will be at once a commemoration of Sir William's name in connection with the higher education of our colonists, and a means of perpetuating the teaching of the Science for which he has done so much, as well as of securing the training of a succession of young men who may worthily follow up his investigations in the wide field of Canadian Geology. Principal Dawson, who at present occupies the Chair of Geology, will be the first “Logan Professor,” and it is intended that the endowment shall, as soon as possible, be made the means of relieving him from the teaching of some other portions of natural science, in order that he may more fully devote his time to Geology and Palaeontology.