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Charles Lyell was born in Scottland. He was the oldest of 10 children.
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Lyell went to college at Exter College in Oxford and attended William Buckland's lectures.
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He graduated B.A second class in classics
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He entered Lincolns Inn. He observed geological phenomena
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He was elected joint secretary of the Geological Society and turned to geology as a full time profession.
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Lyell recieved of one of Lamarks books.
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Lyell was on of the first scientists to support "On the Origin of Species"
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Lyells book was published as an important geological theorist and propounded the doctrine of iniformitarianism
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Darwin had writtin work that stated the parents will become so unlike eachother and will have to be entitled to rank as a distinct species
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Lyell rejected Lamarks idea of organic evolution, saying insteady "Centres of Creation" to explain diversities of species.
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Darwin discussed evolutionary ideas with lyell
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Lyell was knighted for his efforts
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Lyell and Hooker arrived at the theory independently.
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Lyell kept rejection evolution in each of the first 9 editions of Principles. He encouraged Darwin to publish
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Lyell produced Students Elements of Geology that was published. It went through 3 editions.
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For lyells scceptance of Natural Selection, Darwins proposed mechanism came in the tenth eddition of Principals.
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Lyell invited Darwin to dinner and became close friends.
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He was then made a baronent
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The fourth and final edition appearance
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Lyell died as he was revising the 12th edition Of Principals.
