Lyell also wrote seminal geology texts including Principles of Modern Geology, which Charles Darwin carried with him aboard the H.M.S. Beagle on his fateful journey to the Galapagos.

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Among other things, Lyell’s work aimed to show that small, incremental changes could have profound effects over long periods of time. The Beagle reached the Galápagos Islands, a volcanic ...

BORN NOV. 14, 1797, DIED FEB. 22, 1875. LYELL'S life was uneventful. Great changes in thought, great scientific discoveries, are not called events. Yet, as might have been expected in the case of ...

In the last number of the Scientific American we alluded to an excellent speech made by Sir Charles Lyell, at the dinner given by the Crystal Palace Association, to President Pierce, his Cabinet ...

SINCE the first volume of “The Principles of Geology” appeared—now more than forty-three years ago—Sir Charles Lyell has put forth an uninterrupted series of new works or new editions, and ...

On July 1, 1858, at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London, two papers on natural selection were presented jointly on ...

Knowing that Charles Darwin had been kicking around some similar ideas, Wallace sent him a copy so the two might compare notes. Darwin, who indeed had formed some seemingly identical conclusions to ...

obituary.; sir charles lyell. corot, the french painter. hon. daniel g. rollins. col. caleb c. sibley. rev. david weston, d.d. adnah neyhart. shepherd knapp.