Lyell´s Travels in North America
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Excerpt from Lyell´s Travels in North America: In the Years 1841-2 Sir Charles Lyell, a noted English geologist, was born at Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scotland, November 14, 1797, and died in London, February 22, 1875. His boyhood home in the New Forest gave him large opportunities for the cultivation of the natural sciences, toward which he had a strong inclination. He was a student in Exeter College, Oxford, and was graduated in 1821. He immediately began the study of law, entering Lincoln´s Inn, and in 1825 was called to the bar. But his favorite science drew him away from the legal profession, and he became a geologist, a friend and companion of his former Oxford professor of geology, Dr. Buckland. In 1819 he was elected a member of the Linnean and Geological Societies; and in 1822 he read his first paper, "On the Marls of Forfarshire," before the latter society. In 1823 he went to France with introductions to Cuvier, Humboldt and other men of science; and in 1824 he made a geological tour in Scotland in company with Dr. Buckland. In 1826 he was elected fellow of the Royal Society, from which in later years he received its highest honors, the Copley and the Royal Medals. His principal work, The Principles of Geology, has as a secondary title "An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth´s Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation." This was the theme to which he devoted his life. Between 1830, the year of the appearance of the first volume of the "Principles," and 1872, eleven editions were published; and only a few days before his death, he finished revising the twelfth edition, which appeared in 1876. The Elements of Geology, published in 1836, went through six editions in the author´s lifetime. The Student´s Manual of the Elements of Geology was based upon this latter work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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