274 Sir Charles Lyell. 
Man,’ summarizing and discussing all the important facts accumu- 
lated up to that time in favor “of the high antiquity of the 
human race, viewed from the standpoints of the archzeologist, 
the geologist, and the philologist. 
a honors were conferred on Lyell in recognition 
of his services to science. As far back as 1586 he was elected 
to the Preulental Chair of the siege Society, to which 
he was re-elected in 1850. He received from Her Majesty the 
honor of knighthood in 1848, andin 1855 the honorary degree 
of D.C.L. of the University of Oxford was conferred upon n him 
He had been for many years a Fellow of the Royal Society, 
and in 1888 received one of the Royal feted s Gold Medals 
for his ‘Principles of Geology.’ In 1858 the Royal Society 
conferred upon him the highest honor at eve disposal—the 
Copley Medal; and in 1864-5 he filled the Presidential Chair 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
He received the Wollaston Gold Medal from the Geological 
Society of London in 1865 (his continued official connection 
with which had precluded his receiving it earlier). He was 
raised in 1864, on the recommendation of thethen Prime Minister, 
Lord Palmerston, to a Baronetcy, which now becomes extinct 
by his decease. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for his native 
county of Forfarshire. 
“Sir Charles Lyell has been so long and so honorably known 
among the scientific teachers of the time, that though he had 
arrived at his seventy-eighth year, and the period of his chief 
intellectual and physical activity had long passed away, probably 
even the younger men of the present generation will feel that 
science is poorer by his loss 
“ At the meeting of abe Geological Society of London, held 
in the Society's room, Burlington House, Picadilly, on Wednes- 
day last (February Qt 4th), the President, John’ Evans, Esq., 
F.R.S., before commencing the business of the meeting, allude 
- ie _ loss which all present had sustained. “He ittle 
had so cag desired ranlaie: In future times, wherever the 
name of Lyell shall nown, it will be as that of the 
greatest, the most philosophical, the most enlightened geologist 
of Great Britain or Europe. 
“In accordance with the wish of the Council of the Royal 
Society, Sir Charles Lyell will rest beside his old friend and 
