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a great manager at the Geological Society. Lyell's 

 letters to Miss Horner are most interesting, and 

 show how admirable a woman she was and how she 

 stimulated him to follow out his great destiny. 

 His work on the " Principles " became a great 

 pecuniary success, and he laboured hard at King's 

 College, and was much annoyed at the decision 

 of the council at the College, not to allow 

 women to attend his lectures, which were a 

 great success. Married, Lyell started for Ger- 

 many, the Rhine, and Switzerland. Coming home 

 to London, he set to work at his lectures at the 

 Royal Institution, where ladies were admitted, 

 and at King's College, where they were not. He 

 had two hundred and fifty people to hear his intro- 

 ductory lecture at King's College, and it dwindled 

 down to fifteen in a {ew days, not from any want 

 of care or excellence in Lyell, who was ever bitter 

 against the establishment for their refusal to advance 

 female education. He retired from the professor- 

 ship as soon as he found that it interfered with his 

 researches, and never again took any part in 

 academical teaching. The trouble he took about 

 his lectures was great, and he went to great expense 

 in having diagrams well drawn. His retirement 

 was a great loss to the College, which now admits 

 ladies to certain lectures. In 1834, Lyell travelled 

 in Sweden and examined into the rise of the land 

 in Scandinavia, and whilst enjoying his hard geolo- 

 gical work — for he was well received by everybody, 

 ^nd taken to see everything — his letters show how 



