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The Darwin-Wallace Jubilee Celebration at the Linnean Society - Nature
ON July 1, 1858, Sir Charles Lyell and Dr. J. D. Hooker communicated to the Linnean Society a remarkable paper entitled “On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation ...
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Lyell's Principles of Geology* - Nature
IN our last notice, after a sketch of the methods of investigation employed by Sir Charles Lyell, and an outline of the principles deduced therefrom, we gave a few examples of the kind of proofs ...
Scandinavian Skulls - Nature
He also thinks it likely that the Scandinavian invasions of England brought a “longer form of head” into fashion amongst us. The same doctrine is taught by Sir Charles Lyell, in his “Antiquity ...
The Relation of Man to the Ice-Sheet in the North of England - Nature
IN the interesting review of Sir Charles Lyell's “Antiquity of Man,” communicated to NATURE of Oct. 2, Mr. A. R. Wallace mentions the fact that “there is as yet no clear evidence that man lived ...
Changes of Level at Pozzuoli, referred to in the “Apocryphal Acts of Peter and Paul” - Nature
IN the well-known description which Sir Charles Lyell gives of the changes of level of the shores of the Bay of Baiæ in the 30th chapter of his “Principles of Geology,” there occur at pages 172-174 (vol ii. l0th edition) the following statements.
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The Date of the Interment in the Aurignac Cave - Nature
It has passed into the condition of an article of scientific faith, partly through the eminence of M. Lartet, the describer of the cave, and partly through the high authority of Sir Charles ...
Scientific Serials - Nature
B. Andrews.—There is also a reprint from the Philosophical Magazine of Mr. Mallet's paper on the temperature attainable by rock-crushing.—In an obituary notice of Sir Charles Lyell, there is ...
Incidents in the Biography of Dust - Nature
THE first impression one gets of this book is that of a kind of nightmare. It begins by personifying dust and makes “us dusts” utter a great deal of incoherent talk which changes somehow into ...
The Migration of the Swiss Miocene Flora - Nature
WITH reference to the route the plants took which formed the European miocene flora, I should be glad to know why Dr. linger considers it to have been from America to Europe. Prof. Heer says ...
Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S - Nature
...and had claimed to be the earliest known tools and weapons of man; and his home and the great collections of antiquities of the stone, bronze, iron and later ages, which he was then forming, were the centre of the discussions on early man and the earliest evidences of human handiwork in which Sir John Lubbock (afterwards Lord Avebury), Sir Charles Lyell, Boyd Dawkins and others were taking part with him in the earlier years of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's hist... Wikipedia