" 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.

Lyell was born in Scotland about 15 miles north of Dundee in Kinnordy, near Kirriemuir in Forfarshire ( now in Angus ).

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 ancient jawless fish Cephalaspis lyelli, which dwelt in the lochs of Scotland, was named by Louis Agassiz in honour of Lyell.

One of the contributions that Lyell made in Principles was to explain the cause of earthquakes.

Furthermore, Lyell believed that the accumulation of fine angular particles covering much of the world ( today called loess ) was a deposit settled from mountain flood water.

Lyell first received a copy of one of Lamarck's books from Mantell in 1827, when he was on circuit.

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.

The Miocene was named by Sir Charles Lyell.

Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation.

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.

In 1908 he was awarded the Lyell Medal, in 1911 made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and from 1920 to 1922 served as the President of the Geological Society of London, dying on 15 July 1936.

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

By the early 19th century biogeography was ignited through efforts of Alexander von Humboldt, Lyell and Darwin ; their efforts, while important in relating species to their environments, were part of the naturalist tradition and fell short of conservation biology proper.

While in Britain, Adams was befriended by many noted men including Charles Lyell, Francis T. Palgrave, Richard Monckton Milnes, James Milnes Gaskell, and Charles Milnes Gaskell.

Charles Darwin was a follower of Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism and decided to expand upon Lyell ’ s theory with a quantitative estimate to determine if there was enough time in the history of the earth to uphold his principles of evolution.

He was clearly dissociating himself from the new ideas of Charles Lyell which he had accepted during the voyage, and from Darwin's account which embraced these ideas, instead asserting a new commitment under the influence of his very religious wife to the doctrine of the established Church of England.

It was long after that when alluvial gold was discovered at Mount Lyell, prompting the formation of the Mount Lyell Gold Mining Company in 1881.

In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.

Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.

James Hutton and Charles Lyell also contributed to early understanding of the Earth's history with their observations at Edinburgh in Scotland concerning angular unconformity in a rock face and it was in fact Lyell that influenced Charles Darwin greatly in his theory of evolution by speculating that the present is the key to the past.

For example, Lyell D. Henry, Jr. wrote that "' fringe science ' a term also suggesting kookiness.

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 ).

Two of the most serious are Stevens – Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis ( also known as Lyell syndrome ).

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.

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 ".

Lyell was convinced that animals were also driven to spread their territory by overpopulation, but Darwin went further in applying the Whig social thinking of struggle for survival with no handouts.

Wallace also thought that the caves of Borneo might reveal " our progenitors " and Lyell tried to organise an expedition hoping to find " extinct ourangs, if not the missing link itself "', but in the absence of funding the consul agreed to have a look.

The Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company determined that not only was a wooden pipeline cheaper to construct, but it was also more efficient and durable than iron or steel.

The date was chosen to coincide with the Mount Lyell Twenty-Five Year Reunion Dinner, which was held in Queenstown on the same weekend and included many past employees who also have an association with Lake Margaret.

It was also the common short name of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company.

The peak also has the largest glaciers in Yosemite, Lyell Glacier.

In 1903 the North Mount Lyell company was taken over, and in 1912 the most severe calamity to visit the Mount Lyell company was the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, also known at the time as the North Lyell fire.

Mount Lyell was also the operator of the Queenstown to Regatta Point railway from 1893 to 1963, which used the Abt rack system of cog railway for steep sections.

There is an option to make it a round trip by walking on from Lake Tahune to the Franklin River at Irenabyss, crossing the river and exiting at Victoria Pass, which is also on the Lyell Highway.

The 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster ( also known as the Mount Lyell Disaster and North Mount Lyell Fire ) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania.