LYELL, 1141, SIR Charles, English geolo gist: b. Kinnordy, near Kirriemuier, Forfar shire, Scotland, 14 Nov. 1797; d. London, 22 Feb. 1875. He was educated at Oxford, and on leaving Oxford he studied and passed for the bar. His life was almost wholly given, how ever, to geology. His first writings on the sub ject consisted of contributions to the 'Transac tions' of the Geological Society, of which he was secretary, 1823-26, and president in 1835-36 and 1849-50, and to which he continued to fur nish papers throughout his life. His first im portant work, and the one on which his fame rests,
visit he lectured before the Lowell Institute in Boston, and again 1845-46. In 1863 appeared Lyell's last important and most popular work,