BIGSBY (John J.).
[Three Articles on the Canadian Lakes, extracted from various sources].
Three articles written by John J. Bigsby (1792-1881), a British military surgeon and geologist. The first article is entitled, “On the Physical Geography, Geology, and Commercial Resources of Lake Superior,” extracted from the Royal Institution of Great Britain weekly events meeting held on March 19, 1852. The second and third are both extracted from the Proceedings of the Geological Society, the first titled “On the Geology, of the Lake of the Woods, South of Hudson’s Bay” (June 16, 1852) and the second “On the Geology of Rainy Lake, South Hudson Bay” (Jan. 4, 1854). “Bigsby was widely respected for his papers based on pioneering field work in North America. The Geological Survey Report of Canada of 1863 acknowledges his contributions to determining the mineralogy of the Lake Superior region, and notes that ‘among the pioneers in Canadian geology, no observer was more accurate than Dr. J. J. Bigsby’” - DNB.
