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Caledonia, stern and wild, may be called "meet nurse" of geologists as well as of poets. Among the most remarkable of the former is Charles Lyell, who was born in Forfarshire on November 14th, 1797, at Kinnordy, the family mansion. His father, who also bore the name of Charles,[1] was both a lover of natural history and a man of high culture. He took an interest at one time in entomology, but abandoned this for botany, devoting himself more especially to the study of the cryptogams. Of these he discovered several new species, besides some other plants previously unknown in the British flora, and he. | Lyell and Modern Geology by Thomas George Bonney 1 Lyell and Modern Geology by Thomas George Bonney Project Gutenberg s Charles Lyell and Modern Geology by Thomas George Bonney This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or Lyell and Modern Geology by Thomas George Bonney 2 re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Charles Lyell and Modern Geology Author Thomas George Bonney Release Date November 29 2010 EBook 34502 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES LYELL AND MODERN GEOLOGY Produced by Barbara Kosker Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES EDITED BY SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE . . . CHARLES LYELL AND MODERN GEOLOGY The Century Science Series. EDITED BY SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE . . . John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry. By Sir HENRY E. ROSCOE . Major Rennell . and the Rise of English Geography. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM . . President of the Royal Geographical Society. Justus von Liebig his Life and Work 1803-1873 . By W. A. SHENSTONE . Lecturer on Chemistry in Clifton College. The Herschels and Modern Astronomy. By AGNES M. CLERKE Author of A Popular History of Astronomy during the 19th Century c. Charles Lyell and Modern Geology. By Rev. Professor T. G. BONNEY . Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics. By R. T. GLAZEBROOK . Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. In Preparation. Lyell and Modern Geology by Thomas George Bonney 3 Michael Faraday his Life and Work. By Professor SILVANUS P. THOMPSON . Humphry Davy. By T. E. THORPE . Principal Chemist of the Government Laboratories. Pasteur his Life and Work. By M. ARMAND RUFFER