348 HEROES OF SCIENCE. 



first came that the sea was very cold at great 

 depths. 



Years passed on, and honours came to the hard- 

 working, truth-loving man. He was elected pre- 

 sident of the British Association, and was made 

 a baronet. His sight began to fail, and it was a 

 constant anxiety to many who saw him about 

 London, to witness his constant exposure to danger. 

 Availing himself of an excellent secretary, he still 

 corresponded largely, and attended scientific meet- 

 ings. But the end was at hand, and he lost his 

 well-loved wife and then his brother. Dying from 

 the results of a fall, Lyell was buried in Westminster 

 Abbey, as a representative man of science. He 

 was a brilliant example of a man who sought out 

 truth, and braved public opinion for its sake, and 

 who enlightened the world, caring little for ease 

 and luxury, and assisting every fellow-labourer in 

 the great science of geology. 



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