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LYELL 



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Birth and Parentage Education at Midhurst and Oxford University 

 Attended Lectures of Dr Buckland Called to the Bar and Practised 

 as a Barrister" On the Marls of Forfarshire "Visited France In- 

 troduced to Cuvier and Humboldt Professorship of Geology at 

 King's College F.R.S. The Principles of Geology Lyell and 

 Lamarck Darwin and Lyell Geological Uniformity and Continuity 

 Definition of Geology Classification of Kocks " On the Volcanic 

 Districts of Auvergne" "On the Tertiary Formations of Aix-en- 

 Provence " Division of the Tertiary Rocks His Marriage Elements 

 of Geology Travels in North America Knighted and afterwards 

 Created a Baronet Refuted the Theory of Elevation Craters On 

 The Antiquity of Man The Student's Elements of Geology Honours 

 Death Burial in Westminster Abbey . . . .104 



DALTON 



Birth and Parentage Education School Work Observations upon the 

 Weather On Vision of Colours Constitution of Mixed Gases J. P. 

 Joule Dalton's Atomic Theory Law of Multiple Proportions 

 Avogadro's Law The Law of Dulong and Petit Dalton's Man- 

 chester Laboratory Chemistry and Wealth of Nations " On the 

 Absorption of Gases by Water and other Liquids " New System of 

 Chemical Philosophy Atomic Weights Sizes, etc., of Atoms Struc- 

 ture of an Atom Electrons Rutherford, George Darwin and 

 Smithells on the Atomic Theory Composition of the Air As a 

 Lecturer F.R.S. Honours Visited Paris Civil List Pension 

 His Character Imagination (the Value of) Death Public Funeral 

 Posthumous Honours Statue by Chantrey Fresco by Madox 

 Brown in the Manchester Town Hall Dalton Scholarships at Man- 

 chester University Wiirtz and Dalton's Atomic Theory . .114 



MENDEL&EFF 



Birth and Parentage Tobolsk Gymnasium Education at St Petersburg 

 University Studied in Paris Teacher and Chemist in the Crimea 

 Heidelberg Professorship in the Technological Institute at 

 St Petersburg Professorship at the University His Character 

 As a Lecturer Loyalty to the House of Romanoff His Estate near 

 Moscow Principles of Chemistry The Periodic Law His Predic- 

 tions MendeleefF s Letter to the Author " An Attempt towards a 

 Chemical Conception of the Ether "On Non-Valent Gases Coro- 

 nium On Solutions Absolute Boiling-Point Naphtha Production 



