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so popular among our society as he deserves to be. I believe 
im to have an excellent heart, and he is very kind and affec- 
tionate when his better feelings are called upon.” * * * * 
lecture. But despite all infelicities, so great was the value and 
richness of his matter, that he commanded the most respectful 
and interested attention from his auditors. T'he reader of his 
“Principles” could not fail, however, to be struck with the fact 
that the classic elegance of Lyell’s style, for which bis more 
important productions are so justly celebrated, must have been 
the result of much labor. 
We cite from the Geological Magazine edited by Henry 
Woodward, F.R.S., the following notice of his life and 
labors. A more elaborate memoir may be expected in the 
next annual address of the President of the Geological Society 
of London. 
“On Monday, the 22d of February, at his residence in Harley 
Street, and in his seventy-eighth year, Sir Charles Lyell, after a 
long life of scientific labor, passed peacefully from amongst 
us, to his honored rest. 
‘To the outside world it may seem strange that the death of 
a man who was neither statesman, soldier, nor public orator, 
should arouse our sympathies so strongly, or that he should be 
so highly esteemed all over the world; but geologists know 
well what Lyell has done for them since he published the first 
volume of ‘ The Principles of Geology ’ in 1830. 
“Tt is in the character of historian and philosophical expo- 
nent of geological thought that Lyell has achieved so much for 
our science: nor can we fail to remember that those clear and 
advanced views, for which he became so justly celebrated, 
were advocated by him forty-five years ago, at a time when 
scientific thought was still greatly trammelled by a strong re- 
ligious bias, and men did not dare to openly avow their belief 
in geological discoveries nor accept the only deduction which 
could be drawn from them. pd HANG tt, 
“Born at Kinnordy, his father’s seat near Kerriemuir, in 
