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Lyell entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1816, and attended William Buckland's lectures.
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" Lyell questioned Huxley about the Neanderthal fossil found near Düsseldorf and described by Hermann Schaaffhausen in 1858 which Huxley examined at the College of Surgeons in London.
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Lyell read modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, where he joined the Bullingdon club, and after National Service with the Royal Artillery trained as a Lawyer.
Lyell Reader in Bibliography, University of Oxford ( 1962 – 63 ) and Sandars Reader in Bibliography, University of Cambridge ( 1969 – 70 ).
* The Pictorial Catalogue ; mural decoration in libraries: the Lyell Lectures, Oxford 1972-1973 by André Masson ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981 ) deals with the systems used in early modern European libraries.
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Lyell attended Huxley's continuing working-men's lectures, and was " astonished at the attentiveness and magnitude of the audience ... would devour any amount of your anthropoid ape questions ".
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His colleagues there included Adam Sedgwick, William Conybeare, William Buckland, William Fitton, Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin.
Similar views were held by a protégé of Lyell, John William Dawson, who was a prominent Canadian geologist and commentator, from an orthodox perspective, on science and religion in the latter part of the 19th century.
From 1817 to 1841 he contributed to the Edinburgh Review many essays on the progress of geological science, and reviews of the groundbreaking books of William Smith ( geologist ), Charles Lyell, and Roderick Murchison ; he also wrote Notes on the Progress of Geology in England for the Philosophical Magazine ( 1832 – 1833 ).
Around 1825 both Lyell and Sedgwick had supported William Buckland's Catastrophism which postulated diluvialism to reconcile findings with the Biblical account of Noah's ark, but by 1830 evidence had shown them that the " diluvium " had come from a series of local processes.
The list of Lowell Lecturers during his tenure was a veritable pantheon of the most internationally celebrated figures in science, literature, political economy, philosophy, and theology, including Britain ’ s most celebrated geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, and novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Over dinner Lyell listened eagerly to Darwin's stories ( which supported Lyell's uniformitarianism ) and introduced him to Richard Owen and William Broderip, Tories who had just been involved in voting Grant out of a position at the Zoological Society.
Lubbock's Prehistoric Times ( 1865 ), Darwin's The Descent of Man ( 1870 ), James Archibald Geike's The Great Ice Age ( 1874 ) and William Boyd Dawkins ' Early Man in Britain ( 1880 ) became the standard works on the fields to which Lyell had introduced a generation of mid-Victorian readers.
Other novels based on the case include The House in Queen Anne's Square ( 1920 ) by William Darling Lyell, Letty Lynton ( 1931 ) by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Lovers All Untrue ( 1970 ) by Norah Lofts, and Alas, for Her That Met Me!
Much of the early work to document the fossil record at Joggins was by Nova Scotian geologist Sir William Dawson ( 1820 – 1899 ), who had a close personal and working relationship with his friend and mentor Charles Lyell.
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* Henry, Lyell, Jr. Zig-Zag-and Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness, University of Iowa Press, 1991.
" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.
Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.
Charles Lyell at the British Association meeting in Glasgow 1840.
In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.
After the Great Chicago Fire, Lyell was one of the first to donate books to help found the Chicago Public Library.
Lyell's wife died in 1873, and two years later Lyell himself died as he was revising the twelfth edition of Principles.
Lyell was knighted ( Kt ), and later made a baronet ( Bt ), which is an hereditary honour.
The crater Lyell on the Moon and a crater on Mars were named in his honour.
In addition, Mount Lyell in western Tasmania, Australia, located in a profitable mining area, bears Lyell ’ s name.
The ancient jawless fish Cephalaspis lyelli, which dwelt in the lochs of Scotland, was named by Louis Agassiz in honour of Lyell.
Lyell had private means, and earned further income as an author.
Lyell used each edition to incorporate additional material, rearrange existing material, and revisit old conclusions in light of new evidence.
Lyell asked Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, to search for erratic boulders on the survey voyage of the Beagle, and just before it set out FitzRoy gave Darwin Volume 1 of the first edition of Lyell's Principles.
Lyell rejected Lamarck's idea of organic evolution, proposing instead " Centres of Creation " to explain diversity and territory of species.
On the return of the Beagle ( October 1836 ) Lyell invited Darwin to dinner and from then on they were close friends.
Although Darwin discussed evolutionary ideas with him from 1842, Lyell continued to reject evolution in each of the first nine editions of the Principles.
He encouraged Darwin to publish, and following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, Lyell finally offered a tepid endorsement of evolution in the tenth edition of Principles.
Elements of Geology began as the fourth volume of the third edition of Principles: Lyell intended the book to act as a suitable field guide for students of geology.
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He was declared " Richard IV " on Bodmin Moor and his Cornish army some 6000 strong entered Exeter before advancing on Taunton.
The 2002 competition was entered by Bath, Cambridge, Carlisle, Chichester, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Lancaster, Lincoln, St Albans, St David's, Salford, Southampton, Sunderland, Truro, Wolverhampton and Worcester ; the successful candidate was Exeter.
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He left Exeter College, Oxford without taking a degree, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1594.
In 1872, he entered Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, with the plan of eventually going to Harvard and becoming a lawyer like his father.
In the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 most of the Cornish gentry supported Perkin Warbeck's cause and on 17 September a Cornish army some 6, 000 strong entered Exeter before advancing on Taunton.
From 1847 to 1862 he was fellow of Exeter College, and in 1849 entered the Education Department at Whitehall.
In 1903 a link to Budleigh Salterton was opened the line going eastward over a viaduct which went from Exeter Road to Park Road where it entered a cutting continuing onto Littleham Cross where there was also a station ( now a private residence ), and from there to Budleigh Salterton, there turning north to rejoin the main London and South Western Railway line.
The Parliamentarian forces entered Tiverton under Major General Massey on October 15, the town's defenders fleeing before him towards Exeter.
He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1647 and entered Middle Temple in 1648.
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Born in London, he was educated at Exeter, and being destined for the medical profession he entered an apprenticeship with a surgeon in Maidstone.
Born at Wardour, Hyde was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, entered the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1598.
After three years he realised the stage was not a very conscientious way of life for him and, having saved enough to begin studies, he entered Exeter College, Oxford.
He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 19 October 1837, and entered his name as a law student at Lincoln's Inn on 16 May 1839.
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