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Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875)
Lyell, Sir Charles. A distinguished English geologist; born at Kinnordy, Scotland, Nov. 14, 1797; died at London, Feb. 22, 1875. In his ‘Principles of Geology’ (3 vols., 1830) he assailed the doctrine of “catastrophism” in geology. He published: ‘Elements of Geology’ (1837); ‘Travels in North America, with Geological Observations’ (2 vols., 1845); ‘A Second Visit to the United States’ (2 vols., 1846); these voyages were made for the purpose of testing his principle of continuous geologic evolution. His last work was ‘Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man’ (1863).