" 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.

After the Great Chicago Fire, Lyell was one of the first to donate books to help found the Chicago Public Library.

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.

Although Darwin discussed evolutionary ideas with him from 1842, Lyell continued to reject evolution in each of the first nine editions of the Principles.

In the second volume of the first edition of Principles Lyell explicitly rejected the mechanism of Lamark on the transmutation of species, and was doubtful whether species were mutable.

Later, Darwin became a close personal friend, and Lyell was one of the first scientists to support On the Origin of Species, though he did not subscribe to all its contents.

Sir Charles Lyell first published his famous book, Principles of Geology, in 1830.

The geologist Charles Lyell built upon Hutton's ideas during the first half of 19th century and amassed observations in support of the uniformitarian idea that the Earth's features had been shaped by same geological processes that could be observed in the present acting gradually over an immense period of time.

It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience.

The term was first used in a scientific context by Charles Lyell in the third edition ( 1851 ) of his book Elements of Geology in relation to missing parts of the geological column, but it was popularized in its present meaning by its appearance on page xi of his book Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man of 1863.

By that time it was generally thought that the end of the last glacial period marked the first appearance of humanity, but Lyell drew on new findings in his Antiquity of Man to put the origin of human beings much further back in the deep geological past.

* Charles Lyell publishes the first volume of his Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation.

* 1902: Robert Carl Sticht completes world's first successful pyritic smelting at Mount Lyell

The first Baron Lyell was the nephew of the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, 1st and last Baronet, of Kinnordy.

The upper portion of the King River valley was first surveyed for damming in 1917 by the Mount Lyell company.

Mallet, with letters of support from Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, petitioned the Royal Society of London and received a grant of £ 150 to go to Padula and record at first hand the devastation.

By that time geologists had abandoned a literal biblical account of Earth's development and it was generally thought that the end of the last glacial period marked the first appearance of humanity, but Lyell drew on new findings to put the origin of human beings much further back in the deep geological past.

Prior to that two private hydro-electric stations had been opened the Launceston City Council's Duck Reach Power Station, opened 1895 on the South Esk River ( it was the first hydro-electric power station in the southern hemisphere ) and the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company's Lake Margaret Power Station, opened in 1914.

The communication letter briefly describes the first two, and regarding Wallace's paper states that he sent to Darwin " with the expressed wish that it should be forwarded to Sir Charles Lyell, if Mr. Darwin thought it sufficiently novel and interesting.

The exact phrase " mind over matter " first appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell ( 1797 – 1875 ) and refers to the increasing status and evolutionary growth of the minds of animals and man throughout Earth history.

Dieffenbach had gained a degree at the university of Giessen and then, accused by authorities in the Grand Duchy of Hesse of being subversive, he fled, first to Zurich, where he received a degree in medicine before being expelled in 1836 for politics and duelling ; in 1837 he arrived in London, where he eked out a living teaching German, but gained a reputation by his contributions to medical and scientific journals and made friendships with geologists Charles Lyell and Richard Owen among others.

Darwin's first impression had been that though it meant losing priority, it would be dishonourable for him to be " induced to publish from privately knowing that Wallace is in the field ", but Lyell quickly responded strongly urging him to reconsider.

Unhappy with life in a “ dirty odious London ” he returned to Cambridge on 13 December then wrote his first paper, showing that the Chilean coast and the South American land-mass was rising slowly, and discussed his ideas with Lyell.

When Darwin received Alfred Russel Wallace's paper which described natural selection, Hooker and Charles Lyell arranged for a joint reading of papers by Darwin and Wallace to the Linnean Society.

Darwin received it on 18 June 1858, and wrote to Lyell that " your words have come true with a vengeance ,... forestalled " and " If Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract!

On the afternoon of 30 June Mrs. Hooker copied out extracts from the handwritten documents they had just received from Darwin, then that evening Lyell and Hooker handed them in to the secretary with a covering letter.

There were hostile comments, at the start of May he commented to Lyell that he had " received in a Manchester Newspaper a rather a good squib, showing that I have proved ' might is right ', & therefore that Napoleon is right & every cheating Tradesman is also right ".

Among the nine, three received the Copley Medal, five received the Royal Medal, two received Darwin Medals, one received the Rumford Medal, one received the Lyell Medal, and one received the Wollaston Medal.

A copy was sent to Lyell, with a " foolishly anxious " Darwin hoping that he would " come round ".

A Fragment published that year included a copy of a letter John Herschel had sent to Charles Lyell in 1836, not long before Darwin visited Herschel in Cape Town.

Anning's correspondents included Charles Lyell, who wrote her to ask her opinion on how the sea was affecting the coastal cliffs around Lyme, as well as, Adam Sedgwick — one of her earliest customers — who taught geology at the University of Cambridge and who numbered Charles Darwin among his students.

Lord Lyell was one of very few lawyers to have combined a successful career in Parliament and a major private practice.

Lord Lyell is one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999, and sits on the Conservative benches.

Yates ' team was the only participant in the original 1972 running, and in the March 1979 race, formed one of 46 teams with director Hal Needham to compete with a 150-MPH van converted into an ambulance, with LA doctor Lyell Royer, and Brock's second wife, Pamela Reynolds, riding as the patient on the gurney.

Lyell, once one of the largest gold mining settlements in the South Island, is nearby, and offers an interesting example of how quickly the bush can wipe away traces of civilization.

From 1979 to 2007, there were two Nick Tahou Hots restaurants in Rochester: one located in downtown Rochester and the other satellite restaurant located on Lyell Avenue in Gates.

Lyell used his after-dinner speech at the meeting to give guarded support to Darwin's theory in which he gave a " confession of faith as to the Origin ", and said that he " had been forced to give up my old faith without thoroughly seeing my way to a new one.

During its history, Mount Lyell had exploration leases surrounding its main mining area, and had at one time or other explored most of the West Coast Range revisiting many of the smaller mines that had been worked on in the early 1900s.

Mount Lyell No. 5 was one of the original steam Abt locomotives on the line

Lyell rejected Lamarck's idea of organic evolution, proposing instead " Centres of Creation " to explain diversity and territory of species.

Darwin's daughter Henrietta ( Etty ) wrote to her father: " Is it fair that Lyell always calls your theory a modification of Lamarck's?

Although the geologist Charles Lyell opposed scriptural geology he also believed in the immutability of species, and in his Principles of Geology ( 1830 – 1833 ), criticized and dismissed Lamarck's theories of development.

Lyell uncomfortably joked that from " Lamarck's view " this gave a long time " for their tails to wear off ", but Darwin was beginning to look at these " wonderful " fossils in an evolutionary light.

Charles Lyell had thoroughly criticized Lamarck's ideas in the second edition of his monumental work Principles of Geology.