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The Centenary of Lyell's “Principles of Geology”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Philip Lake
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In the literature of geology there is no book that has exercised a more lasting influence on the science than Lyell's Principles of Geology, the first volume of which was published a hundred years ago. The twelfth and last edition appeared in 1875, some months after the author's death. The active life of the work thus extended over some fifty or sixty years, while indirectly its influence still survives.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 67 , Issue 10 , October 1930 , pp. 433 - 436
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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1 Edinburgh Review, vol. lxix, p. 410. That this unsigned review was by Fitton is shown by Mr. T. Sheppard in the Geological Magazine for 1924, p. 192.Google Scholar