The New York Times: SIR CHARLES LYELL.
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Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known today for his association with Charles Darwin and as the author of Principles of Geology (1830–33), which presented to a wide public audience the idea that the earth was shaped by the same natural processes still in operation today, operatin…
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culture · Scottish geologist (1797–1875) · geologist · lawyer · university teacher · paleontologist · writer · scientific collector · jurist · also Charles Lyell, Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, 1st and last Bt., Sir Charles Lyell, Lyell
Born 14 November 1797 · Died 11 February 1875 · Q5333
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insider.si.edu: Charles Lyell, the years to 1841 the revolution in geology by Leonard G. Wilson
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2022· 1 entry
PBS: Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology:
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2019· 1 entry
By the University of Edinburgh's Heritage Collections, thanks to a fundraising campaign, with many generous individual and institutional donors from the UK and overseas
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1875· 1 entry
Died 1875-02-11.
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1873· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1873).
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And two years later (in 1875) Lyell himself died as he was revising the twelfth edition of Principles
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1871· 1 entry
Lyell was one of the first to donate books to help found the Chicago Public Library
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1867· 1 entry
– included all deposits from the era subject to human observation
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1866· 2 entries
Won Wollaston Medal (1866).
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Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1865· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (1865).
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1863· 1 entry
It went through three editions that year, with a fourth and final edition appearing in 1873
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1858· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1858).
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And the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866
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Of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, despite his personal religious qualms about the theory
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1849· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Geological Society of London (1849–1851).
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1848· 1 entry
And later, in 1864, made a baronet (Bt), which is an hereditary honour
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1841· 1 entry
Lyell was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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1839· 1 entry
Lyell termed the Pleistocene epoch, distinguishing a more recent fossil layer from the Pliocene
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1836· 1 entry
Had begun to doubt Lyell's ideas about the permanence of species
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1835· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1835).
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Career landmark: President of the Geological Society of London (1835–1837).
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1834· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1834).
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1833· 1 entry
Proposed dividing the Tertiary period into four parts, which he named the Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and Recent
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1832· 1 entry
Lyell married Mary Horner in Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner (1785–1864), also associated with the Geological Society of London
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1827· 1 entry
“There was everything but man even as far back as the Oolite.”
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1823· 1 entry
Was elected joint secretary of the Geological Society
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1821· 2 entries
Attended Robert Jameson's lectures in Edinburgh, and visited Gideon Mantell at Lewes, in Sussex
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Studied at Exeter College, Master of Arts (1816–1821).
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1816· 1 entry
And attended William Buckland's geological lectures
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1797· 1 entry
Born 1797-11-14.
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